Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] well have be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there may have been isolated instances which appear to confirm this interpretation ( for example , in 1970 the Soviet Union bought up Costa Rica 's excess of coffee , which may well have been a factor contributing to the establishment of diplomatic relations the following year ) , other such instances have been similarly small-scale and the evidence overall is against it . |
| 2 | He had no idea she already had suspicions which might well have been a contributory factor to her miscarriage . |
| 3 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 4 | Material now with The Observer — which we are still checking — suggests that there may well have been a group hostile to Sir Harold Wilson ( and hostile to leaders of the Liberal party ) extending far beyond a ‘ faction of MI5' . |
| 5 | He was certainly living on Iona on the eve of Ecgfrith 's final campaign , and there may well have been a delay of a month or so before he became king , but to suppose a delay of seven months or more seems unwarranted . |
| 6 | Without that damned barrister there could well have been a verdict of accidental death . |
| 7 | The CAA believes it may well have been a 99p UFO Solar , and warns buyers to take note of Article 75 of the ANO which restricts captive balloon and kite-flying to a height of sixty metres agl and forbids it within five kilometres of an aerodrome . |
| 8 | It may well have been a more sensible policy , therefore , to make the Phase 1/3 disparity less extreme , and to use the resources to ensure that all schools were staffed on the 1986 Select Committee recommended basis of n registration groups plus one , with further pro rata adjustments for school size and specific challenges like those of the inner city . |
| 9 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 10 | As we have already noted , he may well have been a militant nationalist who did not shrink from violence . |
| 11 | He may well have been a Zealot or a former Zealot — and may , in fact , be identical with Simon Zelotes . |
| 12 | His parentage and schooling are obscure , though he may well have been a pupil of Stephen Langton , later archbishop of Canterbury [ q.v. ] , himself the native of a village less than ten miles from Stainby . |
| 13 | His family evidently had existing contacts with royal administration , and he may well have been a Chancery clerk as early as June 1379 , enjoying church preferment regularly thereafter , although only on 7 February 1387 was he first called ‘ king 's clerk ’ . |
| 14 | Granpa thought it could well have been a Saturday , felt it most likely the month had been January , was confident the year was 1900 , and knew it was in the reign of Queen Victoria . |
| 15 | It is doubtful if this existed in a written form and it could well have been an oral source which Luke knew of and used . |
| 16 | Then , with the Czech serving for what might well have been a decisive two set lead . |