Example sentences of "may well have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an agent is interested in you he may well have useful comments on the photo you send of yourself , on your style and how you present yourself . |
| 2 | The appearance of the results of the Irish Times opinion poll on the same day predicting the failure of the proposal may well have affected the turn-out . |
| 3 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 4 | This troublesome invisibility in the material record is often inversely related to its semantic value , and activity which may well have a central place in the police model of reality can well remain beyond the grasp of the outsider . |
| 5 | The fact that a sociologist was witnessing the interviews make it all the more certain they would be conducted with scrupulous care , but there was no way he would be given access to the extra-legal deals which may well have gone on outside the interview room or later during a prison visit for ‘ write-offs ’ . |
| 6 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 7 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 8 | It may well have contributed to the 1989 decision to introduce a policy of ‘ Power to the Routes ’ for the current decade . |
| 9 | But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity . |
| 10 | Speed of response can be set over a range of five steps , and may well have to be reset because , particularly in graphics mode , if it is too sensitive , loading up several movement commands into the buffer will require having to wait for them to clear . |
| 11 | What I have presented as analysis of current movements may well have acquired a historical flavour by the time these words are read . |
| 12 | But since 1988 they may well have taken out ‘ Le Mortgage ’ offered by the French company 's British offshoot , UCB Group , to finance their terrain gastronomique . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , he appeared to suggest Mrs Thatcher ‘ may well have been ’ open to the charge of stifling dissent in the past . |
| 16 | Jackson may well have the spirit of punk to blame for the misunderstanding . |
| 17 | But persistent exposure to the same paper-type at least three times a week for a whole year may well have some effect , particularly if it is a preelection year when the political temperature usually rises . |
| 18 | It may well have been rooted in a repressed homosexuality according to the psychoanalytic model . |
| 19 | One should be aware that it may well have played an equally significant role in saving the Conservative Party from disintegration . |
| 20 | However , he may well have made the wrong choice for the right reason . |
| 21 | The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans . |
| 22 | Among them was Jonathan ( no relation ) Aitken , who is hostile to the European Community and may well have preferred Mrs Thatcher 's approach to Sir Anthony 's Euro-fanaticism . |
| 23 | It merely detects residues of drugs ingested as much as weeks in the past , when the worker may well have been off-duty or on holiday . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher was apparently informed of the French decision during the Strasbourg session on monetary union last weekend and it may well have encouraged her to believe that Britain 's European partners are now ready to take the difficult decisions which are a prelude to monetary union . |
| 25 | But the hostility of the United States , and its rather too blatant financial involvement in the election campaign , may well have prolonged his regime — wrapped in the armour of outraged nationalism . |
| 26 | Ceausescu 's visit this week to Iran may well have been in connection with a possible sale of arms . |
| 27 | And so on to the shop — ‘ hey … they 're selling stuff here ! ’ — and the cafe , the Casablanca Club , where a second voice murmurs , as it may well have done in arts centre days but certainly wo n't when the family visitor attraction becomes reality , ‘ a cup of coffee ? … pastry ? … hashish ? ’ |
| 28 | Almost 80 per cent of the female seals in the Baltic are known to be sterile , primarily as a result of PCB poisoning , and by the year 2000 , grey seals in the Baltic may well have become extinct . |
| 29 | Mr Winchester may well have a point , but he fails to mention the profitable presence of IBM in Japan , Hong Kong and Singapore . |
| 30 | Things may well have been a lot worse five years ago . |