Example sentences of "it [modal v] well [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a dog wants food , for example when you are preparing a meal , then it may well start to whine until you give it some scraps . |
| 2 | That 's exactly what I was going to say , Mr Chairman , it 's , it might be as Mr says , or it may , it may well make matters worse , I do n't think we should get into the debate on how the national government are doing , |
| 3 | Despite its beauty , many would think superior to Morris in its majesty , it may well cost the collector less than a third of the price of the Kelmscott Chaucer . |
| 4 | In a decade 's time , it may well show rock videos — and perhaps ‘ Miss Saigon ’ . |
| 5 | I think it would be very helpful to the panel to know what proportion of that thirty six thousand is within the district , within the Greater York area , do n't ask for that to be done now , because it may well involve some difficult arithmetic , perhaps it 's tonight 's homework . |
| 6 | And it really is n't eas it really is n't difficult to keep up to date er once you 've got the background because although income tax does change it only changes annually , it may well change more frequently changes annually . |
| 7 | Wi it may well do , it may well produce the |
| 8 | It may well pass an act against it soon , it may well be that a lot of people from over there will get elected and you 'll get your bill , but then again it may not . |
| 9 | It may well appear to be somewhat deserted at first , but please do n't forget that these fish will grow quite large , and fast , so the lack of crowding at the start will help towards the fish 's comfort , a point which we must never fail to overlook . |
| 10 | It may well pay to consider moving house , to an area where the local state schools are good — at least up to age thirteen — and to embark upon fee-paying education at a later stage . |
| 11 | The tipple will be on sale from September and Dave reckons anyone brave enough to quaff it may well wake up feeling anything but ale and hearty . |
| 12 | It may well last more than six months . |
| 13 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 14 | Well it may well suggest it , I mean I have no no reason to doubt the statement you 've made or even statements made in newspapers , they 've added to my concern from my own investigations . |
| 15 | It may well give me a reason to break the law when encountering the secret police , when coming up against censorship , or when confronting other forms of injustice or repression . |
| 16 | Indeed , for the first time computerization of a business it may well represent a better bet than the over-featured products such as Framework and Symphony . |
| 17 | Unless you change it So whilst it may well represent , you know , a fair percentage of the client 's salary today , ten years down the line , it 's perhaps not gon na represent anywhere near the same percentage . |
| 18 | Indeed , it may well serve to do some injustice and violence to the integrity of the substantive phenomena . |
| 19 | Although it may well cover something of an earlier date . |
| 20 | It is likely to be the first occasion that the puppy has been left on its own , away from its mother and littermates , and as a result , once you have gone to bed , it may well feel disturbed , and start to howl . |
| 21 | It may well feel that there is sufficient resource and underwriting expertise within NCM already to enable it to convert some of its team onto domestic . |
| 22 | Moreover , if we make indiscriminate use of drafting , if it is invariably or artificially imposed , it may well lead to a child 's interest in writing declining . |
| 23 | It may well lead to a major exodus of general practitioners from the capital ; this would have an effect opposite to the one Mrs Bottomley claims to seek . |
| 24 | The desperate conviction of the publishing trade that famous people are somehow obliged to write for it may well lead to nothing more than four-figure fax bills . |
| 25 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 26 | The development of this approach to commercial documents is in its infancy , but it may well lead to greater judicial activity in shaping the mutual obligations of the parties . |
| 27 | And it may well fit the budget of the bread manufacturer , who could have other lines of market research enquiry which it would also like to pursue , for which funding must also be made available . |
| 28 | Perhaps it will make dealing with such a situation a little easier if we realise that there really is a reason for it and that the way in which we handle it may well go a long way towards aiding our spiritual development . |
| 29 | When asked if it was the Ministry 's intention to sell the aircraft in an airworthy condition , the spokesman explained that the aircraft was airworthy , but felt there was a good chance it may well go to a museum who would want to road the airframe away . |
| 30 | My analysis of the particular qualities of the institution shows that it may well extend to cover a homosexual union . |