Example sentences of "well have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Aunt Christine Smith stormed : ‘ He might as well have run over a dog . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not an invalid , ’ she protested , but she might as well have argued with a rock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Jonathan Aitken escaped the total destruction of his career , which might well have resulted from a conviction . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 11 | It is not chemically necessary that a particular hormone has a particular effect — for example , that adrenalin produces bodily changes associated with anger and fear : as far as chemistry is concerned , adrenalin could as well have evolved as a tranquillizer . |
| 12 | This has a total of nine teeth set in three rows , and could well have come from a lock fitted to the door of a villa . |
| 13 | The angular , and in the case of the three women at the extreme left and right of the Demoiselles , rather ‘ faceted ’ appearance of the figures , and the heavy , chalky highlights found in certain parts of the drapery could well have come from a study of El Greco 's work . |