Example sentences of "[modal v] well [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
2 | The price of national freedom might well have seemed impossibly high . |
3 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
4 | And keeping check on who was doing what , and when , and where , could well have proved as complicated as calling the roll after Dunkirk . |
5 | It may well have become just another one of those self-congratulatory rhetorical devices that grace the public utterances of Anglo-American politicians . |
6 | The big four may well have learnt so much about how to negotiate with the US regulatory and financial authorities to justify the cost of this investment . |
7 | It would have been better if we had had a valuation number from the outset which may well have proved more satisfactory with regards to initial enquiries . |
8 | Moreover , if Richard discussed peace on the assumption that he would be the heir to all his father 's dominions then he may well have re-activated very real differences of opinion which had lain dormant since the spring of 1185 . |