Example sentences of "well [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was it like ? ’ you grandchildren may ask in the future , for the late eighties in Britain might well become known as the second ‘ Belle Epoque ’ . |
| 2 | Quite apart from these omissions , the balance sheet appraisal ignores the economic impact of war on attitudes , expectations and the behaviour of institutions , which might well have operated in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | This has undoubtedly caused temporary local damage and may well have contributed to the general decline of the shrimp fishery . ’ |
| 4 | It may well have contributed to the 1989 decision to introduce a policy of ‘ Power to the Routes ’ for the current decade . |
| 5 | The molecules may well have existed in the primeval nebula from which the bodies of the Solar System formed , about 4.5 x 109 years ago . |
| 6 | At club level , his persistent niggling paid off , but at international level , it often acted as a destabilising influence , and may well have led to the premature departure of Willie Ormond as the national team manager . |
| 7 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 8 | Yet this device , along with the interpolation of the source marker at an early point in the quotation , may well have originated in the oral storytelling tradition . |
| 9 | Previous weight-loss or crash diets may well have failed in the short or long term because they did not take into account problems you might have had with food allergy or intolerance . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no legal justification whatever ’ , he thundered , ‘ in saying that Meehan was wrongly convicted , and having heard all the evidence in this case , you might well have come to the clear conclusion that he was in fact rightly convicted . ’ |
| 11 | In their discussion of this incident Asikpasazade and Nesri refer to " Mevlana Haydar " as danismend " newly come from Persia " , so that he may well have arrived in the Ottoman lands at about the same time as Fahreddin Acemi . |