Example sentences of "may well have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At Rheims , Rouen , Sens or Bourges , the archbishops may well have assumed the functions ( and resources ) of those " greater " countships .
2 Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify .
3 He may well have seen the picture in the great series of paintings in Pope Innocent II 's ( 1130 – 43 ) new rooms at the Lateran .
4 M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works .
5 You know the government may well have given a priority for special needs
6 But that interference may well have kept the review on course , as the clock ticked on and the derision from Labour grew louder .
7 After ten years , they may well have reached the zenith of maturity when they know no non-Christian friends at all !
8 Creative politics may well have served the lads handsomely at their inception , but it 's the stupid sounds that secure their place in history .
9 Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable .
10 As we saw in section 5.2 , recent changes in the nature of local politics may well have made the ideal-type of the dual state no longer applicable .
11 Such new sources of political energy may well have made the Athenians look hungrily away from their old markets to Sicily and Egypt .
12 Tectonic plate movement may well have split the Ghat , cutting off Sri Lanka from what is now Travancore .
13 The organization of medieval universities into separate ‘ nations ’ must be taken into account , but study by English clerks at Paris may well have influenced the manner in which legal and diplomatic business was transacted with the French .
14 Throughout Childebert 's minority the power structure at the Austrasian court may well have favoured the likes of Boso , Rauching and Egidius .
15 The other foot may well have crossed the threshold .
16 The fiery and provocative pontificate of Pope Gregory VII may well have inspired the search which brought this manuscript to light .
17 It is recognized that in practice ‘ equality in equilibrium ’ is most unlikely to be reached , since well before such processes could have fully played themselves out other changes may well have disrupted the system in other ways .
18 So the predilections of beavers centuries ago may well have determined the places where human beings have their towns today .
19 At first you may well have to put the puppy on its leash and keep it close to you if it is not to be an annoyance when visitors call .
20 The reduction in the nature conservation interest will probably have been slight and reintroduction of light grazing may well have prevented a decline in floristic diversity in some upland , species-rich grasslands traditionally subject to such grazing .
21 We find that erm , most of our clients are recommended erm you may well have heard the expression we grow big , by being recommended .
22 The appearance of the results of the Irish Times opinion poll on the same day predicting the failure of the proposal may well have affected the turn-out .
23 The situation in the Gouriet case was a politically sensitive one and this may well have justified the court 's refusal in that case to review the Attorney-General 's decision , but it is not clear that such refusal would be justified in every case .
24 He kept in check the political and economic expectations of his people , but in so doing he may well have placed a burden on his young and untried successor , the fourteen-year-old Makhostive , his son by Ntombi Latfwala , who was queen regent of Swaziland from 1983 until the prince was crowned in April 1986 .
25 The economy may well have turned the corner by the next election .
26 Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today .
27 From this may well have followed the whole highly undesirable evolution of British politics in the thirties .
28 In some ways , this development may well have followed the development in settlements .
29 After the threats of the early '80s we may well have relaxed a bit .
30 The comparative stability of the oligopolistic structure in the United States may well have bred a complacency which Japanese and German capitalists , faced with rebuilding their position on world markets almost from scratch , could never afford .
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