Example sentences of "that [vb mod] well [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1950 , in a curious or consistent coincidence ( as Castedo Pointedly calls it $ , Pope Pius XII declared the Archangel Michael patron of police — a decision that may well diminish the archangel 's prestige in Latin America . |
| 2 | From this point of view there is room for the state to assume an interventionist role for the many in a way that may well eat into the freedoms of the few who exercise private , economic power — power that many constitutional authorities are actually concerned to protect and defend through their stress on the importance of liberty , and constitutional limitations on taxation , state intervention , parliamentary sovereignty , and the play of democratic politics itself . |
| 3 | All agreed it was n't ‘ a designer 's car ’ but a pragmatic commercial shape that may well look imposing outside a posh hotel but will never win any design awards . |
| 4 | It can also be argued that there are many references in the Old Testament to conditions that may well have been syphilis . |
| 5 | Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing . |
| 6 | The Ariadne carried an immense and , to the uninitiated , quite bewildering variety of looking and listening instruments that may well have been unmatched by any naval ship afloat . |
| 7 | It is possible that those who are ‘ destined ’ to develop reflux oesophagitis have predisposing oesophageal motor abnormalities that may well have an inherited component . |
| 8 | The design and administration of transitional rules in themselves suggest high short-run costs that may well outweigh discounted long-run benefits . |
| 9 | It is curious that its political champions have barely touched on its merits in the election that may well herald its demise . |
| 10 | At one and the same time , you benefit from the best available local plans tailored to suit your company 's needs and the backing of an experienced and reliable international Network , for a cost-benefit ratio that may well astound you . |
| 11 | Finally , humans create habitats of a kind that may well occur in nature , but not commonly . |
| 12 | Children had the unfortunate habit of growing too tall , whereupon they would be sacked so the few shillings earned were lost to a family that might well depend on them . |
| 13 | Communicating the conclusions of best practice reviews is an activity that might well benefit from a best practice review itself . |
| 14 | I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage . |
| 15 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 16 | Unlike me , he at once felt at home in that charged , aggressive , almost militaristic atmosphere , joined heartily in the drinking and singing , and soon had all the students on his side , which was fortunate for me , because el Americano 's prestige deflected a terrible submerged violence and hatred that might well have done me harm . |
| 17 | Loxton agreed that might well have been the case . |
| 18 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 19 | Jan Fischer produced a transporter that might well have come from a professional machine shop . |
| 20 | Mother Francis the celibate nun who had never thought she could know the joy of seeing a child grow up in her care had loved Eve in a way that might well have made her blind to the feelings and sensitivities of other people . |
| 21 | The action that followed was one of the most bizarre that sailing-ships ever fought , for it took place in a November gale that might well have put the whole of both fleets on to the rocks , but it was a complete defeat for the French who lost nine ships while the British lost only two . |
| 22 | Suppressing the chuckle that might well have relayed the wrong message , Beth went to her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They did not see that the rampant nationalism that had brought Presidents Tudjman and Milosevic to power would so fan the flames of separatism and so reawaken the enmities of 50 years or more , that the compromise that might well have been possible earlier this year and which the European Foreign Ministers have since tried to impose has now become impossible . |
| 25 | It was early yet , she noted , and , feeling in no hurry to start a day that might well fall into the same luckless category as yesterday and the day before and the day before that , she sat up and leant against the headboard . |
| 26 | In an alliance that could well go a lot further , Data General Corp has signed with NeXT Computer Inc to resell NeXT workstations with its AViiON servers , and the two companies will collaborate in development of client-server systems . |
| 27 | Describing the track ‘ as one of the most ancient and well preserved sunken trackways in the south of England that could well pre-date Roman times , ’ he said he was concerned about its ‘ possible destruction ’ . |
| 28 | Peter Brown , chairman of the Thomas Coram foundation , said : ‘ Unless the human imperative of individual dereliction is addressed alongside the more visual investment in environmental dereliction , and however well we spend it this means more money , the country will find itself in a downward spiral of inner-city social decay that could well substitute Drug Alley for the Gin Lane of Coram 's and Hogarth 's day . ’ |
| 29 | It 's a defeat that could well determine that Scotland 's Gavin Hastings will lead the side to New Zealand after England 's Will Carling had an indecisive and undistinguished 80 minutes . |
| 30 | Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde . |