Example sentences of "well [vb infin] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counselling was a completely new world to me and although in the past it had been suggested that to combat my periods of depression I might well think of having psychoanalysis , I am now glad I resisted . |
| 2 | The method used ( and you may well think of a better one ! ) is to drive two brass gimp or panel pins into the panel on each side of each of the l.e.d.s such that the l.e.d. wires can be looped around ( no tightness here ) and be soldered to the pins rather as Fig. 6 shows . |
| 3 | Hence if you were to take a guess at selecting a high-fibre vegetable you might well think of something like celery , which seems to reveal its fibre content unmistakably . |
| 4 | To coin another military metaphor , he must ‘ soldier on ’ knowing that all of this activity might well smack of sedition . |
| 5 | The author of The Gentle Shepherd might well approve of this pleasant modernised pub on the site of his old wig shop and circulating library . |
| 6 | Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county . |
| 7 | In an age when a symphony orchestra can appear in uniforms designed to advertise tobacco industry sponsors , conflating music and cigarettes into a single narcotic ( Guardian , 26 March 1984 : 13 ) ; when in Japan the record companies and the large industrial corporations co-operate to produce ‘ image-songs ’ which both advertise the corporations and play an important role in the hit parade ; ’ when a small selection of endlessly per mutated pop songs provides the background for almost every social activity ; when rhythm tracks on disco records can be behaviouristic ally planned and electronically produced , for maximum precision and control : one can not , at this time , avoid the feeling that if Orwell 's ‘ 1984 ’ ever arrives , it might well consist of a continuous Eurovision Song Contest ; that the ideal of the music industry would be to turn everything into muzak ( Philip Tagg 's entertaining account of the way muzak is used to ‘ programme ’ a Swedish office worker 's day gives an idea of what this would be like ( Tags 1984 ) ) . |
| 8 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 9 | If it is supposed that there is a want of definiteness about the idea of something 's " occurring within consciousness " , we can as well speak of anything whatever of which there is a logical possibility that an individual can discriminate it in his or her or its consciousness . |
| 10 | One might as well speak of even-handed socialism . |
| 11 | At the same time , the United Nations is clearly contemplating the circumstances in which a peace-keeping force might be sent and I can well conceive of circumstances in which , in order to underpin a peace , a peace-keeping force should be in place . |
| 12 | Severe winters , of course , hit the poor twice over : those who survived the effects of the frost and snow might well die of malnutrition as the resultant disastrous harvest reduced the amount of food available and forced up prices . |
| 13 | In which case some of us may well die of surprise . |
| 14 | And you might well argue of course that if you are subsidizing films which have no cultural merit or whatever then why we are doing this and that , that would be a question to ask . |
| 15 | I too , as one who is not a Christian , might well say of him that he knew and loved God . |
| 16 | One could well say of the event horizon what the poet Dante said of the entrance to Hell : " All hope abandon , ye who enter here . " |