Example sentences of "well have [verb] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Swapping speed for japery may well have resulted in the conversion of that fallen Boar into bacon . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The same man might well have worked for the Alkmaionidai in exile . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | City might well have added to the score minutes later when Ralph Purner struck a shot at goal , but O'Shaughnessy blocked . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection . |
| 21 | His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection . |
| 22 | The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770 . |
| 23 | She was fascinated when he said he came from London — as far as she was concerned he might as well have come from the Moon , because she had as little likelihood of ever visiting either . ’ |
| 24 | There was evidence of rivets in it and an X-ray revealed traces of a metal covering , which confirmed to experts that it might well have come from the gable end of just such a shrine , and that it could well have been the piece described by the father of Welsh historical research . |
| 25 | Brian Harley is no superstar and Froggy , although an excellent caddie , could well have disappeared with the money to his favourite distillery for a month . |
| 26 | Although there are few indications of local industries at Rochester itself , the town may well have acted as the service centre for the potteries in the Cliffe area to the north and those situated downstream on both sides of the Medway estuary . |
| 27 | On the other hand , they are probably less likely to join the transient homeless moving out of the area , and a number may well have returned to the sub-continent for a period , thus masking levels of continuing illness . |