Example sentences of "well have [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well have influenced the Spanish style in the United States and reflected the role of American imperialism in assimilating a Spanish cultural heritage . |
| 2 | Charlemagne sent gifts to him in late 795 or early 796 , but when Aethelred was killed in 796 and the Frankish envoys returned to Gaul with the news , Charles recalled his gifts , furious that the Northumbrians should murder their lord and holding them worse than pagans ; and this sudden loss of his Northumbrian protégé may well have endangered the delicate balance Charlemagne was seeking to maintain in England to circumscribe the power of Offa of Mercia ( see below , p. 176 ff . ) . |
| 3 | Suppressing the chuckle that might well have relayed the wrong message , Beth went to her . |
| 4 | Furthermore , although Anne 's pregnancy may well have determined the exact timing of the Act of Appeals , the statute 's assertion that England was an empire was by then well-established government policy and echoed arguments formulated several years earlier . |
| 5 | This may well have saved the new Bulgaria . |
| 6 | However , he may well have made the wrong choice for the right reason . |
| 7 | As already indicated , £20 — £39 embraced an assortment of yeomen , minor gentry , and lesser merchants and manufacturers who in towns , other than the biggest and most important , might well have formed the ruling elite . |
| 8 | And he might well have dismissed the Flemish court , with its prince who hedged and ditched , its chancellor who audited accounts , as mercenary . |
| 9 | A keen observer , or possibly any male over the age of twelve , might well have noticed the small hand-gun nestling in her cleavage . |
| 10 | He has told us now what he might well have feared the dead man could tell us . |
| 11 | we may well have to provide the medical report on your behalf , yet . |
| 12 | If Leland had gone there , he might well have described the eastern Weald as he did the Forest of Dean : ‘ more fruitful of wood and grass than corn ’ with ‘ many iron mines and forges ’ ; yet although he judged it self-sufficient in corn , Dean was very much poorer than the Weald . |
| 13 | The significance of these beliefs in creating a commonsense culture of taken-for-granted racism in Britain is difficult to underestimate , although widespread illiteracy may well have protected the subordinate classes from the level of immersion in racism experienced by the upper classes who were fed a growing diet of racist mythology in fiction , newspapers and missionary tracts ( Lorimer , 1978 ; Miles , 1982 , pp. 118–19 ) . |
| 14 | The deep economic depression , particularly of the late 1920s and the early 1930s , may well have discouraged the continued raising of large families and encouraged the greater use of birth-control techniques . |
| 15 | Had Moss joined the great Italian team , he could well have won the elusive World Championship . |
| 16 | Most NHS managers and professionals and members will heartily endorse this intention , although some of the latter may well have preferred the electoral route . |
| 17 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 18 | Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation . |
| 19 | Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation . |
| 20 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |
| 21 | This was an undercover operation which had to be conducted with great speed as it quickly emerged that there was every chance that the Princess might well have left the royal circle by the proposed September publication date of the book . |