Example sentences of "[pron] may well " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 2 | But time-wise the gap between them may well be much more important than the time-span within them . |
| 3 | but for some reason some of them may well lie within the |
| 4 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 5 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 6 | ‘ If it is so important to you , Miss Kenton , I will allow that the Chinaman behind me may well be incorrectly situated . |
| 7 | Yours may well be toothache . ’ |
| 8 | My meadow , which I may well be contemplating with pleasure even as you read this , is a delight . |
| 9 | If I notice the banker fidget and look at his watch , I may well conjecture that the game is about to be brought to an end , and I may therefore feel tempted to defect . |
| 10 | I may well have had holistic tendencies for I am both an artist and a writer , but all that was subconscious . |
| 11 | It may well be the case , as Struan says , that Beethoven displays more artistic merit than Struan , but if Struan 's music uses overdriven guitars , I may well prefer to listen to it . |
| 12 | Patting the chair beside him , he told Daisy , ‘ If Perdita gets the scholarship , Sukey and I may well be going out to New Zealand at the same time to buy some ponies , so we can keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 13 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 14 | Though I may well seem aged to you , Jo , I 'm not yet that old . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If I build up my business the way I hope I can , I may well need a partner . |
| 16 | I may well be addressing a future Inquisitor — ’ |
| 17 | In what I say here I may well not be followed in every respect by one or another scholar , and there are matters open to a different interpretation . |
| 18 | I shall not be with you much longer and I may well not see Italy again . ’ |
| 19 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 20 | Just across the street from here , I think — although after so long I may well be mistaken . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not a dog , ’ she said sharply , baring her teeth , ‘ but I may well bite . |
| 22 | Erm , something else that I may well do with this spreadsheet as well I can foresee is , insert an extra |
| 23 | I may well keep you here for your entertainment value . ’ |
| 24 | Realizing that I may well end up the whipping boy if things go wrong , I attempt , in bankers ' parlance , to ‘ cover my ass ’ . |
| 25 | But if I , with the very same eyes and brain , am walking through a forest at dusk , I may well fail to distinguish almost any dull-coloured insect from the twigs that abound everywhere . |
| 26 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 27 | And I may well have some input files which you could u test with . |
| 28 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 29 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 30 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |