Example sentences of "well have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunting may well have been seen as a pleasurable distraction , but from a practical point of view the bow and arrow is more useful . |
| 2 | Moreover , it should be noted that according to this distinction the central detail in the Christianson and Loftus ( 1991 ) study might well have been categorized as a peripheral detail . |
| 3 | But for the intervention of a lone SS soldier in black battledress , he and his navigator , the Australian Donald Walsh , might well have been lynched by a hostile crowd aboard the train carrying them to interrogation . |
| 4 | there is a basic four-chord harmonic sequence , used as a structural underpinning for much of the piece ; in a conventional rock song this might well have been deployed as a rift or worked into predictable phrase-structure patterns . |
| 5 | The Zuccarelli recordings so far demonstrated could well have been made with a simple dummy head , incorporating reflectors or circuits to emphasise this effect . |
| 6 | Over its last two decades , slight improvement in some areas may well have been offset by a measure of decline in industrialising areas like the west Midlands and south Lancashire . |
| 7 | The desire to make arrangements covertly could well have been affected by a double pressure . |
| 8 | Richard also seems to have felt a special devotion for the shrine of Bury St Edmund 's — he may well have been attracted by a cult which celebrated a king who died in the struggle against pagans . |
| 9 | It may well have been rooted in a repressed homosexuality according to the psychoanalytic model . |
| 10 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 11 | Amongst other things , the computer was used to display a conventional set of instructions that could equally well have been provided in a printed form . |