Example sentences of "they [modal v] well [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 but for some reason some of them may well lie within the
2 We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight .
3 Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour
4 Rhee hoped the United States and Britain would recognise his provisional government ; a British Foreign Office minute from March 1945 reads , ‘ These people can not in any true sense be said to represent Korea and Anglo-US recognition of them might well lead to those [ problems ] we have experienced over the ‘ London Poles ’ .
5 It is from the people who gather together to discuss these targets that ideas to meet them might well emerge .
6 The return of Tony Hanson to the team that lost in the last five seconds at Broxbourne could be the inspiration , but with Doncaster playing second placed Oldham and Plymouth at fourth placed Brixton , the two teams above them could well lose ground .
7 They may well love the new baby , but that does n't stop them giving it a tweak when your back is turned .
8 On the High Street , the post-Christmas sales began in November , and they may well continue through to Easter .
9 They lead to a formal , didactic , teacher-centred approach , they operate with devastating force upon teachers newly trained in ‘ activity methods ’ , but in the tough , bleak conditions which obtain in some schools they may well represent the only possible alternative for a struggling teacher to adopt .
10 But in practice , if most countries want to go ahead with something , they may well ignore a lone dissenter .
11 Last year costs climbed faster than revenues ; this year they may well do so again .
12 Renters are not ‘ down-and-outs ’ , but those who do not yet have the opportunity to own a home , though they may well do so in later life .
13 The argument here is not that the group shares a common material objective interest which unites them , though they may well do so ; such an argument , if framed in a strict manner , might take elite theorists perilously close to Marxist positions , in which the material interests related to the appropriate mode of production specify the class .
14 Well , they may well do .
15 If lamb prices rise over the next few years , as they may well do , then the subsidies will fall .
16 While they are unlikely to be successful with the woodcut and the copper-plate , they may well achieve their ambition with some other processes .
17 And depending on how you erm which criteria you use , they may well vary .
18 Of course , if his tasks are badly designed they may well make unnecessary demands .
19 If they formulate detailed hypotheses and produce elaborate questionnaires or interview schedules without first carrying out informal interviews they may well go off in a completely fruitless direction and have only themselves to blame when they end up with several hundred completed forms , none of which have asked the right questions about the right key factors .
20 In terms of price , Hamer challenge Gibson 's own reissues amongst other quality guitars , and I 'm sure that if someone were to go shopping for an instrument with a classic tone , but prepared to keep an open mind and buy with their ears , then they may well end up going home with a Hamer .
21 I mean eventually of course if somebody is dissatisfied , and they do n't believe that they 're getting er what they want , then they may well end up speaking to me , or writing to me , but er it 's the first place to start is with the individual service .
22 But , as on other occasions when they think for themselves , they may well end up agreeing with you .
23 Certainly , there are evident differences and they may well sketch one political conjecture for postmodern organization premised on stable private capital formation , production-centred strategies of economic calculation and high degrees of labour market segmentation .
24 Which is one of the reasons , by the way , why another thing you will get murdered for in the er workshops is taking two hammers and hitting the heads against each other , because they 're hardened and y they may well shatter quite explosively if you do that .
25 They may well arrive when this is all over . ’
26 The start of a new year is a time for pundits to come up with predictions they may well regret
27 The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret
28 Perceptions of the quality of their own early work tend to decline as they attain seniority and experience , and they may well attach less significance to the value of other theses to their own work .
29 you know , if you sh given them a slide show that 's all very well but , they may well want to look at some of the pictures for longer .
30 And on a more mundane level , they may well want the tourists back , before martial law , Lhasa was becoming a sought-after destination for western travellers and for their dollars .
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