Example sentences of "may well [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may , of course , be some discrepancy between the ideal and the reality , and we may better understand the positive potential of the custom by remembering how easily it can be spoilt if something goes wrong . |
| 2 | Well , there are some very good reasons ; and right now these arguments may well tip the balance . |
| 3 | The greater likelihood of their being admitted to an institution in Ipswich may well reflect a greater availability of beds or of places in residential accommodation , as well as a different attitude towards home care on the part of the psychogeriatrician ( researchers ' fieldnotes indicated that he was more preoccupied by the notion of patients being ‘ at risk ’ in the community than was the case with the Newham psychogeriatrician ) . |
| 4 | This may well reflect the effect of the recession on manual workers ' perceptions of work — the importance of being in employment even if this means changing home . |
| 5 | Where the task has been to make judgments of affective tone or extract central information from a slide , differences have emerged between central and peripheral details and this may well reflect the fact that attention to arousing information or central information ( which are assumed to be the same thing ) is explicitly required for task performance . |
| 6 | At best they are uncertain and may well reflect the impressions and attitudes of the attending physicians . |
| 7 | Remember , too , that some of the general topic work or work done in other subject areas may well offer a historical component . |
| 8 | He may well run a car repair business or sell cheap jewellery on the side , in which case his dealing will lack single-mindedness . |
| 9 | Fourth , researchers argue that strategies aimed at protecting older workers , although increasing the job security of those who are in employment , may well intensify the problems of those who are unemployed . |
| 10 | If the only working capital that is required can be provided by the personal capital of the participants , then partnership may well fit the bill . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the rise of ‘ a new kind of economy … threatening to many , demanding rapid changes in work , life-style and habits , hurls large populations terrified of the future into spasms of diehard reaction … instead of the much-touted end of ideology , we may , in both global and domestic affairs , see a multiplicity of new ideologies spring up … instead of President Bush 's famous thousand points of light we may well face a thousand fires of fury . ’ |
| 13 | Finally , the critic may well face an issue of authenticity . |
| 14 | They may well feel the case against your brother is substantially weakened by what 's come to light . |
| 15 | ‘ He may well feel the need to scare me off . |
| 16 | The owner of a large concern may well feel an obligation to find a position in his firm for a hard-up cousin . |
| 17 | That may well involve the giving of ‘ hearsay evidence . ’ |
| 18 | THE RFU , horrified by the 12 departures from Gloucester this summer , may well extend the qualifying period for players who change clubs beyond the present four months . |
| 19 | The continued pressure on companies ' cash flow may well accelerate the gradual unwinding of Japan 's complex web of cross-shareholdings . |
| 20 | The internal wrangles , sometimes over single issues , which are coming to characterise British party politics in the 1980s , may well foreshadow a similar process . |
| 21 | The Ordnance map may well show the boundary of the parcel as the centre line of any boundary feature , irrespective of its legal ownership ( see Fisher v Winch [ 1939 ] 1 KB 666 ) . |
| 22 | Time limits are important and may well prevent a grievance from rumbling on , thereby causing ill feeling and low morale . |
| 23 | During the course of er this meeting you will hear from the Chairman and the Honorary Treasurer and we may well cover an enormous amount of the grounds that is relevant to you as commodores , members and officers of the Association and it might be worth , I am going to avoid what he 's trying to avoid most of that area because I believe they cover it in greater detail and give you more of an opportunity to find out precisely what 's been going on . |
| 24 | The paradox is , of course , that this may well enable the staff to establish relationships with some pupils which would not be possible in school or in the Victoria unit . |
| 25 | But in practice , if most countries want to go ahead with something , they may well ignore a lone dissenter . |
| 26 | As the effects of right sided damage are likely to be less immediately troublesome than comparable damage on the left , which frequently causes some degree of aphasia , naturally occurring left hemisphere lesions may well lead the patient to seek medical advice earlier in the disease process than would equal damage at the right side of the brain . |
| 27 | Those who have been immensely blamed , or felt they were blamed , may well marry a blaming partner . |
| 28 | A new and probably more reliable set of data from the University of Pennsylvania ( see Summers and Heston , 1988 ) may well displace the World Bank tables as the best available source . |
| 29 | When a kick is employed by an attacker , the force behind it is very powerful and a head-on clash may well break the defender 's arm . |
| 30 | Such a person may well earn a penalty if they continue to back-pedal . |