Example sentences of "very well [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These complexities may very well complicate the implementation process . |
| 2 | Critics pointed out that this could very well mean a well-organised minority taking an irreversible decision about the future of a school . |
| 3 | And I can promise you that under pressure you may very well forget the name of your mother , your favourite aunt , possibly even your wife 's name . |
| 4 | And we could n't very well abandon the two young ladies on that barren rock there . ’ |
| 5 | As it was , Clare had acquired a taste for reading , and had her nose constantly in a book ; and it occurred to her mother that she might very well undertake the tuition of Olivia , to save the cost of hiring another governess . |
| 6 | You see , Miss Williams — or should I make that Fran , so that I can get used to calling you that ? — I could n't very well tell the police what had gone on last night , so I improvised . |
| 7 | Whoever farms the land in question may very well want the rabbits disposed of — but not at the price of constant disturbance of his land and perhaps at the risk of the well-being of the game shooting . |
| 8 | By being uncooperative , a person might very well make the task of the constable more difficult , but it may he doubted whether he commits obstruction . |
| 9 | Now of course you may not be able to do anything to change the basic situation — you ca n't very well turn the children out onto the street or walk out on a job just because it is tedious . |
| 10 | He could very well afford a house , and indeed Jim had been an expensive conversion . |
| 11 | ‘ I did wonder , ’ said Sophia at last in desperation , ‘ whether I had committed a grave social error in asking you to dinner alone when you may very well have a mother , wife or fiancee who should have been invited too . ’ |
| 12 | mm , might very well have a look |
| 13 | An object as a temporally extended existent may very well have the predicate p at time t , and the predicate not-p at time t . |
| 14 | We might very well take the view that " x is an F " must in principle be convertible into a knowable proposition , without thereby implicitly accepting that " ( Ex ) Fx " and " " x is an F " is convertible into a knowable proposition " are equisignificant . |
| 15 | The Kiwi coach has done very well to help the game reach communist China ( see July issue of RW&P , pages 56 and 57 ) where there are hopes that rugby might be introduced to the Chinese armed forces . |
| 16 | What we 're are saying is , There are the sites , they do n't have the development constraints that I would to the extent erm that you believe erm they have , and Skelton and the two objection sites are very well located a whole range of service facilities and employment opportunities , and development on those sites would fit squarely within local plan policy . |
| 17 | A threat to a person 's property in his presence might very well provoke the use of force by way of self-protection , which would seem to qualify . |
| 18 | The current EFTA Council chairman Pertti Salolainen spoke of the EEA as " a building block in the new European architecture " and suggested that " while the EC will of course remain the centre of attraction in Europe , the EEA may very well become an attractive concept for central and eastern European countries seeking to become part of the greater European family " . |
| 19 | There was no electricity in the house and I can very well remember the gas lighting . |
| 20 | I can remember very well having the first cooker we had , gas cooker we had . |
| 21 | On the whole , though it was a partly negative performance on Leeds part , I think we did very well to get a draw . |
| 22 | " You 've done very well to get the thing cleared up so quickly , " I said . |
| 23 | But probably at the stage where somebody is spending two or three hours a day erm processing invoices , trying to get cash in , erm looking at the stock control , then that 's the point where they could very well consider a small computer now . |
| 24 | Thus his conduct very well illustrates the maxim ‘ Look before you leap ’ ; and if his final decision was made when the trend of circumstances was making it harder to leave home , he might well have recalled ‘ He who hesitates is lost ’ . |
| 25 | It would suit them very well to have the tenancy of the house for at least another year . |