Example sentences of "well [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might well have done so ; it was , after all , a Catholic Scotland which was to be so closely allied with France . |
| 2 | Also of interest in the wider context of the Mufti 's holding a teaching post , apart simply from the fact that Fahreddin Acemi may well have done so , is the identity of the medrese . |
| 3 | May well have done so already . |
| 4 | Their forebears may well have relied heavily upon scurvy grass ( Cochlearia officinalis ) in some areas referred to as , ‘ a sailor ’ or ‘ mariner ’ , and in other areas called , ‘ the thing for scurvy ’ , or more explicitly , possessing antiscorbutic properties . |
| 5 | These ‘ drawings ’ may well have influenced both Dada and Surrealism as they were first published at a time when André Breton was championing automatism and mediumism . |
| 6 | It seems possible that such a latter unit may well have served briefly on the island at this time , and been involved in this particular combat . |
| 7 | This new layout could not be dated precisely within the later first or early second century , though it may well have followed directly upon the final levelling of the military ditches , dated on pottery evidence to the late Flavian period . |
| 8 | Since the conditions applied are almost certainly too restrictive ( the project may well have sustained somewhat more than four to five clients per week who would otherwise have been in an institution ) the total annual sum saved is almost certainly nearer £24,000 — £26,000 . |
| 9 | On the contrary , they may well have moved much closer to the type which will be referred to as putatively postmodernist . |
| 10 | There is interesting speculation about the Rainbow Inn , for the rainbow was one of the signs of the Dyers ' guild , and they may well have gathered here when work was done . |
| 11 | She might well have stood too , but he was close by and she had a quick memory of when she had been close up against his body before . |
| 12 | If you 've played some of the Speccy-ported Dizzy adventures , you may well have decided enough is un oeuf , and decided that eggs are best left in omelettes . |
| 13 | It was a risk , for she might well have run headlong into him on the first floor landing , but she had luck , and was round the next turn of the stairs when she checked and froze against the wall , hearing his rapid steps on the oak treads below her . |
| 14 | This can often be harsh to an employee who may well have contributed fully to enhancing the value of the company and may wish to retain his shares ; sometimes exceptions to a provision of this kind can be specified . |
| 15 | It may well have become just another one of those self-congratulatory rhetorical devices that grace the public utterances of Anglo-American politicians . |
| 16 | But Mr Major 's room for manoeuvre was limited by the loss of Mr Chris Patten , who could well have become Home Secretary , and two other rising stars : the two Treasury Ministers Mr Francis Maude and Mr John Maples . |
| 17 | That was not so ; the questions answered included those which were material and those said not to be relevant might well have become so . |
| 18 | This does not follow , however , from Simmel 's approach ; for him , the Walbiri 's intimate relation to the objective forms taken by their social products , and their classifications of the landscape , might well have appeared more ‘ cultured ’ than the attitudes of his German contemporaries , who , in spite of having at their disposal the enormous possibilities of mass culture , did not possess the means for assimilating these into the development of person or group . |
| 19 | As Eliot had allowed me to give his name as a reference , my appointment , in the face of a number of other young men hungry for employment and no doubt better qualified ( for I had neither teaching experience nor teaching qualifications ) , may well have owed much to him . |
| 20 | Glen Webbe , of international fame and a target for League clubs , might just as well have stayed home decorating his Christmas tree for what he was called on to do . |
| 21 | The point to stress is that rights which we now tend to regard as unquestionable were bones of serious contention in the past , and , like present-day calls for the return of capital punishment , might well have remained so . |
| 22 | He might just as well have stipulated long white trousers . |
| 23 | The set culminates in an outrageously zany harmonisation of the famous ‘ O du lieber Augustin ’ , whose adventurousness may well have made even a composer like Prokofiev blanch . |
| 24 | I might as well have pleaded aloud with him to make love to me , she thought , I wanted him so much ! |
| 25 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
| 26 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
| 27 | Under the ancien regime , the exchange might well have shut again after Tiananmen . |
| 28 | The matter might well have ended there , with no long-term ill effects for Maxine , were it not for the fact that poor Daniel was to have another unfortunate experience with the canal . |
| 29 | They might as well have ended there as seventh , the place below the play-off zone . |
| 30 | The news that could well have wrecked forever Prince Charles ' hopes of one day becoming king was broken by the urbane Sir Robert Fellowes — the Queen 's Private Secretary — in a call to Downing Street . |