Example sentences of "[modal v] well [be] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | West German electors recognize the propriety of indirect election justified by votes given to parties , and might well be surprised that political figures as eminent as Shirley Williams , Roy Jenkins and Enoch Powell could be excluded from the House of Commons simply by the say-so of voters in Cambridge , Glasgow Hillhead and Down South . |
| 2 | It could well be significant that Cnut is not himself said to have had any connection with the document , and it may reveal little of the real business of the Oxford meeting . |
| 3 | But he might get the wrong person for his needs , possibly due to vacation , sickness , or the respondent may misunderstand the question , indeed , may well be unaware that certain information actually exists . |
| 4 | He may well be disappointed that the whole thing seems likely to fizzle out as death by misadventure . ’ |
| 5 | Norris may well be right that Derrida deserves such attention , but he is not often likely to receive it in the conditions of actual pedagogy , or in the random public exchanges of higher cultural life , which put a premium on the simplifying and the reductive . |
| 6 | With violence appearing to be on the wane at the moment , he may well be right that the future looks bright . |
| 7 | Prof Smith 's comments are noteworthy : The jury may well be sure that the defendant is guilty either of theft or of handling but quite unable to decide which . |
| 8 | It may well be true that there is little evidence of a widespread parochial anti-clericalism in the early sixteenth century , if by that we mean an endemic lay hostility towards the local priesthood . |
| 9 | It may well be true that Black people are inspired by the memory of their courage under slavery . |
| 10 | On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court . |
| 11 | Firstly , in relation to users and carers , the practitioner may well be aware that she is identifying and discussing needs which are unlikely to be met within the current limits and range of available services . |
| 12 | It may well be significant that the earliest subscription libraries were founded in America in the 1730s . |