Example sentences of "well [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better start learning that Highway Code . |
| 2 | I think in the case of members of staff , the university might well want to say certain sorts of behaviour are inappropriate and we do n't countenance them even if the person involved in the end thinks she 's prepared to put up with it , or he 's prepared to put up with it . |
| 3 | Faced with an audience which included Dikaiopolis , the main character in Aristophanes ' Acharnians ( see lines 1ff. ) , farting and grumbling as he watched the Spartan ; put a match to the combustible parts of Attica , a speaker might well need to invent cruder techniques . |
| 4 | As has already happened with the recent Microsoft , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc he believes vendors could well look to develop strategic interfaces and operating systems that conform to the maximum number of standards . |
| 5 | Opposition Members may well decide to make some progress and we may get to new clause 9 and to others further down the list , we can not be sure about that . |
| 6 | Labov recognises that certain forms of standard English may well have developed such explicitness further than some dialect forms . |
| 7 | Lewis Carroll may well have seen these cheeses . |
| 8 | IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina . |
| 9 | IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina . |
| 10 | Retrospectively , therefore , some Minors might well have become later candidates for Major status . |
| 11 | AIDS may well have taught gay men how to work with , as well as benefit from , the services of lesbians . |
| 12 | Franks says Glynn died between nine and one , he might as well have said last night sometime . |
| 13 | Pool may well have gone that way had Gibson , Knowles and Murray not worked their wonders . |
| 14 | As we said in the Introduction , this is a little artificial , but you may well have to do this kind of work yourself at some time . |
| 15 | This sort of vessel could well have existed four centuries earlier in the Aegean . |
| 16 | They may well have to take detailed briefings and relay them to the creative department , so memory and an articulate mind are essential . |
| 17 | He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England . |
| 18 | Wherever they were , they would have been bombarded with radiations ; and as the primitive atmosphere was different in composition from that of today , and in particular would have lacked an ozone layer , they could well have received higher doses of radiation than they would today . |
| 19 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 20 | Much better news awaits those who may well have dismissed all ideas of Caterham ownership with one thought of the insurance bill . |
| 21 | This Act of 1806 may well have given young Ben the final push he needed : in that or the following year he packed his bags for good , waved his loving sisters a fond farewell , and set off for London , fame and fortune . |
| 22 | Under these circumstances , all you can do is try to re-align the board on the artwork and expose it for a further period , but you may well have to scrap that attempt and start again with a freshly-coated board . |
| 23 | It is very difficult to do this without producing a ‘ blurred-vision ’ effect in the resist — so you may well have to scrap that attempt , recoat the board with resist and start all over again . |
| 24 | In this case a driver may well have exercised due care and attention but the offence of driving without reasonable consideration may still be committed . |
| 25 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
| 26 | A number of those involved were artisans from the Kentish towns , some of whom , particularly those connected with the cloth trade , may have had a special grievance , as a sharp decline in cloth exports after 1448 could well have caused local unemployment ( 66 , pp.96–7 ) . |
| 27 | Mr Smith , who is generally regarded as the clear favourite for the leadership , suggested that the ‘ misrepresentation ’ of Labour 's tax policy might well have caused some people not to support it . |
| 28 | Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 . |
| 29 | In the Seine and Loire valleys , for instance , the presence of Viking warbands over fairly long periods may well have stimulated local producers and sellers of horses and weapons and , above all , food and drink . |
| 30 | This image may well have borne some relation to reality at one time in the first half of this century and the second half of the last , following the process of industrialization which took men out of the home to work in factories . |