Example sentences of "[vb mod] well have " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom . |
| 2 | It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer . |
| 3 | Under the ancien regime , the exchange might well have shut again after Tiananmen . |
| 4 | They recognise , however , that the women in their study were largely middle-class , who might well have sufficiently large zinc stores because they were well nourished . |
| 5 | It made no express reference to proceedings between a named representative of a class and a member of that class who might well have sharply different interests , as betweeen themselves , as to the substance of the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 6 | An eminent nonconformist might well have reservations about a now Anglo-Catholic son seeking holy orders in the Church of England . |
| 7 | Keynes might well have disapproved of the ‘ Keynesianism , of the postwar politicians , but runaway inflation nevertheless led to a successful monetarist assault on Keynesian theory . |
| 8 | The combination of a broad industrial experience and a close understanding of how the typical mineworker views life gave him the confidence to take on a responsibility which a less courageous man might well have ducked . |
| 9 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 10 | We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be . |
| 11 | Though the North scored three tries to nil for their 11th win in their last 12 matches in the competition , it would not be far-fetched to suggest that with Hodgkinson at stand-off — and , overall , he produced more thrust than any other midfield player — the Midlands might well have won . |
| 12 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 13 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 14 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 15 | Through the arch too , I see the dark water of a deep wide moat ; so dark , indeed , is the water that it might well have remained unstirred since the days of the ‘ brave Lord Willoughby' ’ . ' |
| 16 | It might well have been necessary to invent Yeo Davis if they had n't already existed . |
| 17 | Mr Gorbachev might well have won such a vote , and added to his formal powers the authority he now lacks . |
| 18 | Their fear was that taxes would not only have to remain high but might well have to increase . |
| 19 | In a similar way , a Roman soldier writing from Palestine to his parents in about 4 BC might well have written : ‘ This is an out-of-the-way dump . |
| 20 | The vibrator , too , might well have some other application like soothing a dog 's or an old lady 's rheumatic shoulder . |
| 21 | Unlike me , he at once felt at home in that charged , aggressive , almost militaristic atmosphere , joined heartily in the drinking and singing , and soon had all the students on his side , which was fortunate for me , because el Americano 's prestige deflected a terrible submerged violence and hatred that might well have done me harm . |
| 22 | I tried to see the people , but no picture would come , although among the shadowy figures might well have been a Peter de Fernborough , later Farmborough , who about that time made his appearance somewhere in the village . |
| 23 | Thirdly , it is also possible that the advances in birth control operating within the climate of an ‘ acquisitive society ’ might well have permitted couples to plan their family lives in such a way as to allow them to enjoy the consumer benefits of society . |
| 24 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 25 | The 1647 drop in production too might well have been mistakenly explained in terms of the course of the war . |
| 26 | She might well have done so ; it was , after all , a Catholic Scotland which was to be so closely allied with France . |
| 27 | It appeared to her as if agriculture on Møn might well have arrived with creation itself . |
| 28 | Time to Declare by David Owen ( Penguin , £7.99 ) — Had he not fallen out with the Alliance , this passionate rebel male might well have been a key figure in this the general election . |
| 29 | He went so far as to state that had Hougoumont fallen , the battle might well have been lost . |
| 30 | Shakespeare , who admired energy , might well have applauded this writing , especially some fine pages ( pp.132–154 ) on his mature verse . |