Example sentences of "[modal v] well have been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 2 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
| 3 | It may well have been with mixed feelings that Hamilton gave up Painshill and its burdens after some thirty-five years . |
| 4 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 5 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |