Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] well [vb infin] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there has that happened since that may well have changed all . ’ |
| 2 | As for the certificate system whereby a parish acknowledged its responsibility to relieve holders who became chargeable while working in other parishes , that may well have helped industrial employers for they received the labour while the risk of having to relieve in cases of unemployment or sickness was underwritten by the parish of settlement . |
| 3 | A number of those involved were artisans from the Kentish towns , some of whom , particularly those connected with the cloth trade , may have had a special grievance , as a sharp decline in cloth exports after 1448 could well have caused local unemployment ( 66 , pp.96–7 ) . |
| 4 | This Act of 1806 may well have given young Ben the final push he needed : in that or the following year he packed his bags for good , waved his loving sisters a fond farewell , and set off for London , fame and fortune . |
| 5 | Edward I may well have had similar goals for England , Aquitaine and Ponthieu ( a clearer definition of feudal obligations , a shortening of the links in the tenurial chain and a more precise knowledge of the military service owed to him ) but the means by which those ends might be attained were very different . |