Example sentences of "[modal v] well [be] [vb pp] that the " in BNC.
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1 | It might well be argued that the USM , now containing some 900 companies with a market capitalisation of less than £50m , has long outlived it usefulness . |
2 | A court might well be persuaded that the clause is reasonable as to ( ii ) but not as to ( i ) . |
3 | It could well be argued that the committee under-played the ideological differences that exist between such approaches to the curriculum ( an issue we shall return to later ) . |
4 | Now it could well be argued that the very object of judicial scrutiny is to force the bureaucracy to consider a broader range of policy choices ; that the courts ' role is precisely to ‘ redress ’ the tendency of officials to adopt a very narrow bounded rationality which thereby forecloses policy choices . |
5 | If the matter were investigated deeply enough it could well be established that the pressure required to civilise a human being , and thereby generate a conscience , increases enormously as the time from the birth to the start of the process lengthens . |
6 | If , for example , the driver 's national insurance contributions are paid partly by the haulier it may well be presumed that the driver is an employee . |
7 | It may well be argued that the government was able to defeat the General Strike by its propaganda campaigns , the arrest of Communist activists , the use of volunteers and by sheer patience , in allowing the General Council 's Negotiating Committee to spend several futile days negotiating the Samuel Memorandum in the hope that it would provide a basis for a settlement . |
8 | It may well be said that the patriarchal understanding of what it means to be male is abandoned . |