Example sentences of "[modal v] well have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the 15 year olds might well have been helping underground , but ignoring this , it leaves us with 174 adult underground workers . |
| 2 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 3 | He might well have been working a small place on his own behalf . |
| 4 | He was making for a taxi , which might well have been waiting for him . |
| 5 | Okay people could well have been using savings . |
| 6 | If greed were his motivation , Wilco Zeelenberg could well have been racing in Rothmans Honda or Lucky Strike Suzuki colours this season . |
| 7 | It is recognised however that some reference to a version may be worthwhile , in that the producer of a module may well have been using a specific version of a referenced module during initial design . |
| 8 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 9 | In 1822 Elizabeth 's son Robert was baptised at the Mile End Old Town Zion Chapel on Union Street , built by devotees of Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion ; the young boy , then 13 , may well have been staying with his uncle Samuel at the time , the latter having married three years previously . |
| 10 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |
| 11 | Edward may well have been thinking of exploiting his Gascon possessions militarily , as well as financially , and the frequent references to military service in the Recogniciones were to be put to good use . |
| 12 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 13 | Aldous Huxley may well have been echoing Gandhi when he maintained that the means whereby we attain something are as important as the end if not more important . |
| 14 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 15 | Lazio may well have been planning to allow Gazza only an hour 's play in any event as he tried to gain match fitness . |
| 16 | There may well have been fighting . |
| 17 | Until now you may well have been making samples only 60 stitches wide . |