Example sentences of "well [vb infin] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be plausible the authority should also be limited in the way ours is : a machine that appeared certain , in the teeth of all the evidence observable by us , that such and such a transistor was failing might well have given itself away precisely because it would lack the ‘ downwards ’ inscrutability that our inner workings have for us . |
| 2 | By not putting the matter to the test they may well have spared themselves refusal . |
| 3 | I might well have got myself burned upon a stake , although in those days that was n't all that difficult . |
| 4 | Ironically , Morris could well have found himself taking charge of Glamorgan at the start of the season . |
| 5 | Ships docking at Amnisos could well have found themselves trapped there by a north wind , just as Odysseus claimed he was . |
| 6 | If it had been the Chinese who engulfed the world in a wide-embracing economic system , we might well have found ourselves using jade rather than gold as a symbol of supreme value . |
| 7 | Conversely , the Coordinating Team might well have found itself constrained to accept a proposal which met all the technical criteria yet for other reasons would not be deemed appropriate for project involvement . |