Example sentences of "i [modal v] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it is so important to you , Miss Kenton , I will allow that the Chinaman behind me may well be incorrectly situated . |
| 2 | My meadow , which I may well be contemplating with pleasure even as you read this , is a delight . |
| 3 | If I notice the banker fidget and look at his watch , I may well conjecture that the game is about to be brought to an end , and I may therefore feel tempted to defect . |
| 4 | I may well have had holistic tendencies for I am both an artist and a writer , but all that was subconscious . |
| 5 | It may well be the case , as Struan says , that Beethoven displays more artistic merit than Struan , but if Struan 's music uses overdriven guitars , I may well prefer to listen to it . |
| 6 | Patting the chair beside him , he told Daisy , ‘ If Perdita gets the scholarship , Sukey and I may well be going out to New Zealand at the same time to buy some ponies , so we can keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 7 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 8 | Though I may well seem aged to you , Jo , I 'm not yet that old . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If I build up my business the way I hope I can , I may well need a partner . |
| 10 | I may well be addressing a future Inquisitor — ’ |
| 11 | In what I say here I may well not be followed in every respect by one or another scholar , and there are matters open to a different interpretation . |
| 12 | I shall not be with you much longer and I may well not see Italy again . ’ |
| 13 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 14 | Just across the street from here , I think — although after so long I may well be mistaken . |
| 15 | ‘ I am not a dog , ’ she said sharply , baring her teeth , ‘ but I may well bite . |
| 16 | Erm , something else that I may well do with this spreadsheet as well I can foresee is , insert an extra |
| 17 | I may well keep you here for your entertainment value . ’ |
| 18 | Realizing that I may well end up the whipping boy if things go wrong , I attempt , in bankers ' parlance , to ‘ cover my ass ’ . |
| 19 | But if I , with the very same eyes and brain , am walking through a forest at dusk , I may well fail to distinguish almost any dull-coloured insect from the twigs that abound everywhere . |
| 20 | These " no-hopers " were probably given to me because I may well have been overheard to say I did not believe that there was such a person who had gone through a-initio training as a pilot who could not get on step by step until he became an operational pilot . |
| 21 | And I may well have some input files which you could u test with . |
| 22 | I may well take you up on the offer . ’ |
| 23 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 24 | The notation is fairly standard but still I should better say what is what : H , magnetic field strength ; E , electric field strength ; D , electric flux density ; B , magnetic flux density ; J , current density ; p , charge density ; F , force , q , charge ; v , velocity of moving charge ; u , permeability ; e , permittivity . |
| 25 | If I had confined myself to initiating ‘ creative drama ’ or ‘ improvisation ’ , I might well have remained satisfied with his participation for he was indeed meeting all the requirements of dramatic playing . |
| 26 | I might well have gone over . |
| 27 | I might well have got myself burned upon a stake , although in those days that was n't all that difficult . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I might well never find out where it was , but it would certainly contain some pupils whom the teacher had chosen because she thought they were bright and co-operative and others would almost certainly have been excluded because of their uncooperativeness or lower intelligence . |
| 30 | ‘ In other circumstances , I might well have noticed whether or not the statuette was missing . |