Sentence examples for may have set off from inspiring English sources

Investigators said a faulty space heater may have set off the fire.

Experts still suspect that the quake, not the tsunami, may have set off the meltdowns.

Extraction of oil from the ground may have set off other earthquakes, Dr. Seeber said.

It is unclear what about the lavish resort may have set off the regulatory onslaught.

A separate US official suggested the bomber may have set off the explosives as he was about to be searched.

But the drunken ramblings of one man in a bar may have set off an important discussion about a less pretty undercurrent in a multibillion-dollar industry.

Both issues have set off protests here.

Mr. Muhammad, a Muslim convert, sympathized with Al Qaeda and was angry at America, acquaintances said, but he also had serious personal problems that may have set him off.

Though the shooter reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS, his father issued a statement claiming that religion played no part in the motivation for the shooting but, instead, it was allegedly the sight of two men kissing months ago that may have set him off.

You may have set out to practice every day, and then about a month ago it fell off to every other day.

This may suggest that an infectious agent has set off some sort of derangement in the body's system of fat regulation, making the infected person fat.