Example sentences of "well have been [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the rest of the trip there might as well have been a sound-proof grill between the front and back seats , Shannon reflected wryly . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Meyer 's stalking-horse challenge in 1989 may well have been a necessary prerequisite for the substantive challenge in 1990 because it broke the psychological barrier against mounting a challenge when the party was in office . |
| 3 | It did n't really matter , their expressions seemed to say , he might as well have been a short-order cook or a deep-sea diver or a male prostitute . |
| 4 | Poseidon 's power was at this early time far greater than that of Velchanos : he received large-scale sacrificial offerings at Pylos , and may well have been a major deity on Minoan Crete too . |
| 5 | Time to Declare by David Owen ( Penguin , £7.99 ) — Had he not fallen out with the Alliance , this passionate rebel male might well have been a key figure in this the general election . |
| 6 | This may well have been a contributory factor in the prevalence of death in child-birth . |
| 7 | He had no idea she already had suspicions which might well have been a contributory factor to her miscarriage . |
| 8 | The truth was Denis O'Neil Senior could well have been a professional singer . |
| 9 | They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of someone 's attic . |
| 10 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 11 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |
| 12 | Gingerly he reached out to touch it ; it might as well have been a physical part of his wife 's anatomy , like an ear or a finger . |
| 13 | As we have already noted , he may well have been a militant nationalist who did not shrink from violence . |
| 14 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 15 | It is doubtful if this existed in a written form and it could well have been an oral source which Luke knew of and used . |
| 16 | This piece of furniture is one of the very few genuine antique pieces in the house , and could well have been an eighteenth-century travelling craftsman 's miniature . |
| 17 | Although reported as poor in the Domesday Book , Thwing could well have been an important place in medieval times , the prosperity of the village being a direct reflection of the influence and affluence of the Thwing baronial family , who were amongst the most distinguished and prosperous families in northern England . |
| 18 | Now I know it was likely the alcohol was causing his depression and may well have been the major influence on the poor family relationships involved . |
| 19 | Another larger issue could well have been the major redirection of Bernician military might and political power needed to secure an advance north of the Forth . |
| 20 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 21 | There could be no doubt that the Burgundian was the leading ruler in Gaul between 511 and 516 , and he may well have been the barbarian king most favoured by the court of Constantinople . |
| 22 | The support of 90% of blacks for Carter , even though he was a white Southerner , may well have been the crucial factor in his victory . |
| 23 | Yet he sensed that those next few minutes , after Ashenden had finished speaking with Kemp , might well have been the crucial ones in that concatenation of events which had finally led to murder ; and he questioned Ashenden further . |
| 24 | A striking record of Elizabethan Christmas anthems by Red Byrd and the Rose Consort of Viols explores what may well have been the raw sonorities of Tudor vocal timbre ( Amon Ra CD-SAR 46 ) . |
| 25 | It is almost certain that both forms of the disease were present in late-fourteenth-century England , and it may well have been the pneumonic form , the more lethal of the two , which was responsible for the scale of the mortality in 1348–49 ( 53 , pp.172–3 ) . |
| 26 | Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde . |
| 27 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 28 | There is no shading on the rock here , but it is used on two out of three tiny , marvellous cups from Athens ( figs. 113 , 114 ) made by a potter Sotades and painted by the ‘ Sotades Painter ’ who may well have been the same man . |
| 29 | It might as well have been the last rites . |
| 30 | A possible explanation is that this jacket may well have been the last issue made to C/Sgt Nicholl in the last year or so of his service , and , as will be seen , may have been scarcely worn . |