Example sentences of "well have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is clearly a newly assertive policy being followed in the White House , and the early exuberance of US politicians when the invasion seemed to be going well has provoked fears that President Bush might be tempted to apply military solutions to Nicaragua and to the war on drugs . |
| 2 | I might as well have grown asparagus in the time . ’ ’ |
| 3 | UNDER 12s : Junior may well have asked Santa for Madonna 's Erotica ( WEA ) . |
| 4 | Attlee , Churchill , and Eden , as Prime Ministers in the 1950s , could well have repeated Churchill 's own words , uttered during a wartime speech at the Mansion House in the City of London in November 1942 , ‘ I have not become the King 's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire . ' |
| 5 | The hedges suggested that , in May , they could well have obstructed vision . |
| 6 | To their dismay they see quantification invading their own subject : they might as well have become physicists or engineers if English literature , Greek history and even New Testament theology now offer no escape from those wretched numbers . |
| 7 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 8 | From Oxford Eila may well have travelled north through Woodstock , where that weekend there was a Barry Manilow concert , and then on to Charlbury Youth Hostel . |
| 9 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 10 | He may well have lost customers ; and even those he retained would no doubt have been despondent if not positively angry at what they were having to pay . |
| 11 | Miss Macdonald , I thought , would probably know about Andrew Stavanger 's dentist — she might well have made appointments for him in the past . |
| 12 | North Down may well have condemned neighbours Bangor to Section Two cricket next season after their run win over them on Saturday . |
| 13 | But Acts is clearly not intended to give a complete account of Paul 's activities , and he may well have visited Jerusalem on other occasions which are not recorded . |
| 14 | Moreover in the years 1176–7 he was taking a keen interest in the competing politics of the Spanish kingdoms and he may well have instructed Richard to ensure that the great road south from Bordeaux to the Pyrenees was kept open for travellers of all sorts , pilgrims , traders and couriers . |
| 15 | In the households of the small master clothiers of the West Riding woollen manufacture , though not in its differently organised worsted branch , the wives , daughters and female servants may well have spun wool for the household 's own cloth — " Prithie , who mun sit at bobbin weel ? " asks the wife in a poem of 1730 when set another task by her husband — but even so yarn had still to be taken in from other spinners . |
| 16 | Let it not be forgotten that in the years leading to the war the Tories were so scared of Russia that they missed the chance to establish a partnership which might well have prevented war . |
| 17 | But if he started talking Buddhism at them , they may well have taken fright . ’ |
| 18 | The Chomskian might advance the speculative thesis that any mutation causing children to search immediately in the right class of grammars would have a great selective advantage , and that such evolutionary change might well have taken place , producing human beings who are now pre-programmed to process linguistic data in a specific way . |
| 19 | ( ii ) Instead of Q[x] we could equally well have considered Z[x] , R[x] , C[x] , each defined in the obvious way . |
| 20 | As this may well have occurred millenniums before that dawning power could produce an act of a nature that would leave the kind of evidence that archaeologists seek , then it must be that the true dawn is virtually undatable . |
| 21 | You might as well have quoted Dickens , because Beveridge 's remarks judged by today 's standards almost belong in the 19th century . |
| 22 | Since the Duke supported Constantine 's claim he may well have brought Bertrand to Normandy on the theory that it was safer than leaving him behind to foment trouble . |
| 23 | Had they wanted a Gothic design , they might well have restricted entries to Britain . |
| 24 | ‘ There are at least ten other examples of this table known , and that might well have dampened enthusiasm for it ’ . |
| 25 | This may well have provided relief and reassurance to those many antislavery people who were at the respectable fringes rather than the centre of religious , social and political power as well as for different and obvious reasons those who were closer to the centre . |
| 26 | Linden Joseph , the lithe Guyanese who spent a disappointing season with Hampshire in 1990 , might well have won Test selection as well but injury , consistently his nemesis , struck him down during the A series . |
| 27 | Among them was Jonathan ( no relation ) Aitken , who is hostile to the European Community and may well have preferred Mrs Thatcher 's approach to Sir Anthony 's Euro-fanaticism . |
| 28 | We have already looked at ways in which complicated organic molecules could have come into being when the Earth was young ; and these complicated organic molecules could well have included nucleotides and amino acids . |
| 29 | Social class and rural-urban contrasts , and different relations with British colonial states and education systems , are very likely to be involved as causal influences here , and Swann could well have commissioned research to explore some of the underlying issues . |
| 30 | This book may well have shown Elizabeth her powers and her limitations . |