Example sentences of "well have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mother was n't insured and the funeral director 's bill of £150 was a shock ( he might as well have asked for the moon ) . |
| 2 | It starts simply enough with a water supply and a distillery but even that is not necessarily the ‘ start ’ , in that one could equally well have begun with the barley which forms one of the main inputs to the process of distillation . |
| 3 | Yes , I mean you may well have seen on the television , some of the first film of some of the camps , that the first sort of rioting was about water . |
| 4 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 5 | Aunt Christine Smith stormed : ‘ He might as well have run over a dog . ’ |
| 6 | Possibly there was some breakdown of control when he entered London , which may well have contributed to a reaction against him on the part of the citizens . |
| 7 | Hybrid vigour may well have contributed to the robustness with which the ranch escapees established themselves so widely , quickly spreading along the waterways and coasts and filling a niche left virtually empty after the removal by gamekeepers of otters , stoats and polecats . |
| 8 | This may well have contributed to the feeling that the UK was overtaxed , despite the fact that this is contradicted by the evidence ( see Table 16.5 below ) . |
| 9 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 10 | After leaving school the situation of course is different , although the position of young wage earners in the household may well have depended upon the employment opportunities available for them in the local economy . |
| 11 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 12 | The horrifying thing about , for instance , Robert Nichols 's review in the Observer for 11 January 1920 — ‘ Mr Pound , indeed , serves his lobster â l'Américaine ’ — is that it could perfectly well have appeared in the Observer last Sunday . |
| 13 | So , for instance , if you have an argument with the police er on a matter , you might very well have to say to the police , I think officer you were take that and say you 're a lying bastard . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not an invalid , ’ she protested , but she might as well have argued with a rock . |
| 15 | If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 17 | Because of time lags in the production process , the cost of replacing inventories may well have risen by the time that the raw materials are used to make finished goods and then sold . |
| 18 | The latter might well have suffered from an increase in continentality of climate following regression , but it has not unreasonably been assumed by most palaeontologists that a planktonic group such as the globigerinid foraminifera should have been indifferent to what was happening to epicontinental seas . |
| 19 | The solo vocal coloratura of ‘ Audi caelum ’ , echoed by an unspecified instrument , and the instrumental ritornelli of ‘ Ave maris stella ’ could equally well have originated in the opera . |
| 20 | Jonathan Aitken escaped the total destruction of his career , which might well have resulted from a conviction . |
| 21 | Swapping speed for japery may well have resulted in the conversion of that fallen Boar into bacon . |
| 22 | Dr Grainger and some of the local doctors dismissed the ulcers and sore throats as ‘ common ’ , saying they ‘ could well have occurred as a coincidence ’ . |
| 23 | When Gundovald first arrived in Gaul he apparently had an considerable quantity of treasure with him , which must suggest that he initially had the backing of the Byzantine emperor , whose concerns about the Lombards in Italy may well have stretched to a desire to see a close ally established in Francia . |
| 24 | These figures suggest that there was also some degree of undervaluation of exports and imports in terms of dinars in previous years , although the amount may well have varied with the rate of depreciation of the dinar . |
| 25 | He had accomplished nothing and he may well have meditated on the difference between his situation and that of his uncle at the Erfurt meeting with the German Princes in 1808 . |
| 26 | The same man might well have worked for the Alkmaionidai in exile . |
| 27 | During the silence that followed , the same thought may well have passed through every head except Ferryman 's : ‘ We 're in for it now ’ . |
| 28 | That is £17,000 and this money may well have to come from the sale or re-mortgage of her house , unless you can help . |
| 29 | City might well have added to the score minutes later when Ralph Purner struck a shot at goal , but O'Shaughnessy blocked . |
| 30 | The high moral principle , to use his own phrase , of mid-Victorian muscular Christianity , may well have seemed to the agnosticism of early twentieth-century scientific certainty an insubstantial basis for the development of Co-operation ; and , as a derivative from the French , from the advocacy by Louis Blanc and Buchez of self-governing Producers ' Associations formed by workmen and operating through ‘ National Workshops ’ , the concept was not only at odds with but alien to that of the British Movement which had come to be dominated by the Consumer Movement . |