Example sentences of "well [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 2 | It contrasts so vividly with the centesimal system where the remedy may well be given as a single dose and even when several doses are taken is usually stopped at the first sign of improvement . |
| 3 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 4 | But this view could well be challenged by a new offering from Roland … |
| 5 | He had grown accustomed , even in the work of supposedly enlightened anthropologists , to terms such as ‘ savage ’ , ‘ lower races ’ , and ‘ inferior races ’ , so that when he speaks of ‘ inequality ’ , he may well be thinking of a vertical model , though he may mean simply ‘ difference ’ when he writes that |
| 6 | Trees and contours all add to a sylvan setting and any attractive existing features may well be incorporated in a proposed scheme with advantage . |
| 7 | The next time he makes me stand in the rain when I need answers to questions , he may well be treated to a proverbial Glasgow kiss , but I do wish those who choose to criticise him ( and , given his superb all-round game , his one Major title does deserve scrutiny ) would give some consideration before they complain . |
| 8 | If this is approved , the invitation would well be followed by a firm brief to produce a paper that could , at the BBC approved rate of reading , last anything from seven minutes to a little over an hour , at your discretion . |
| 9 | If any hostile power monitored that transmission , it could well be regarded as a major breach of national security . |
| 10 | BTW Gav … well be coming in a blue mini , not the escort … |
| 11 | However , if the timing of the mother starting work coincides with other disturbing events such as death of the father , it may well be interpreted as a threatening event and lead to some distress . |
| 12 | While Germany as a whole might well be described as a capitalist state with feudal trimmings , Pomerania and the long arm of East Prussia remained feudal with modest capitalist trimmings . |
| 13 | I now see that between 1958 and 1977 I was involved in what might well be described as a social drama of movement , often crossing boundaries into very marginal areas of policing , where the institutional ideal of ordered definition fails simply because the ‘ use of power and exercise of authority are based in ambiguity and particular interpretations of [ what is often ] poorly framed legislation ’ ( Burton 1980 ) . |
| 14 | While some pluralists , notably Almond ( 1983 ) , Jordan ( 1983 ) and Martin ( 1983 ) , argue that what is described as ‘ corporatism ’ could equally well be contained within a pluralist conception of the state , theorists of corporatism maintain that there is a substantive difference between the two socio-political systems : |
| 15 | The main road from Oxford to Bicester ( A43 ) runs dead straight for several miles and might well be taken for a fine piece of Roman road . |