Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] well [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I build up my business the way I hope I can , I may well need a partner . |
| 2 | However , as I steered our motor dory into the tricky south landing with the tide pouring through jagged rocks , intermittently obscured by swell and sea tangle , I could well imagine the island 's isolation in winter and bad weather . |
| 3 | Now this does n't alter for one moment my recommendation of this as a superb performance , but I can well imagine a non-violinist , with less understanding of the extraordinary soloistic skill involved , homing in on and lambasting the accompaniment , giving only an average rating as a result . |
| 4 | If someone goes away on holiday , you may well give the key to a neighbour , they probably know a relative of yours or somebody like that that if anything does happen they can contact you or your relative to come down and check the house over . |
| 5 | By reinforcing your own dominance , you may well steal the thunder of the antagonists . |
| 6 | Then you may well find a lot any extra memory . |
| 7 | Attempting to stop the rotation directly may make matters worse , since you may well push the rudder stick the wrong way . |
| 8 | You may well have a computer at home or have used one somewhere else . |
| 9 | Er if you were a fairly decent criminal though you , you may well have a look through the windows to see if you can see any detectors on the wall , just to confirm it , because by now you 'd be thinking that a lot of these are dummies . |
| 10 | You may well have a copy of a video of a typical school day that you use at induction meetings . |
| 11 | You may well require a pile of paper about a foot high , because the techniques employed require wide margins and much blank space . |
| 12 | She may well have a thing or two to teach the Goldsmiths ' graduates about handling the demands of the art world and media . |
| 13 | In these days of widespread family planning , you might well think the number of unwanted pregnancies is on the decline . |
| 14 | Thus you might well commence a let-down miles away from the NDB , thinking that you had passed overhead . |
| 15 | significantly less and so you might well consider the need to use this means |
| 16 | You might well ask the moon . |
| 17 | We may well reach a situation in which all trials are held in the area in which they arise , and London retains special importance chiefly as the centre of appellate courts for the south of England . |
| 18 | If we are listening to a story and somebody says So I ate it we may well know the meaning of it from somewhere earlier in the story . |
| 19 | We may well endorse the saying regarding him who had so much to do with road-making in the Highlands and islands ; ‘ if you had seen these roads before they were made you would have blessed brave General Wade , ’ and wish prosperity to the Highland Railway Company . |
| 20 | We should not only lose , against eight times our numbers , but we might well tempt the Forteviot garrison to come out and rescue us , and the fort would be taken . ’ |
| 21 | If the Government 's agricultural land tenancy reform proposals go through , which I rather hope they do , it 'll be a little while yet , we could well see a change in the security of tenure issue , which might make it easier to achieve er , vacancy and vacant possession . |
| 22 | If that gap is n't narrowed , we could well see a backlash as business doing their bit for the environment lose heart at the apparent lack of consumer interest . |
| 23 | They may well feel the case against your brother is substantially weakened by what 's come to light . |
| 24 | In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March . |
| 25 | If accepting shareholders feel that the offeror has behaved badly , they may well accept a cash offer but feel reluctant to invest on a long-term basis in the offeror . |
| 26 | Other teaching unions said they might well boycott the plan . |
| 27 | ‘ They might well send a priest to you , ’ he said to his own image , and reached for the clean shirt Langholme had laid ready for him . |
| 28 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 29 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 30 | At all events the Treasury was opposed to new forms of central economic control ( or planning ) not least because they could well mean the loss of its own authority . |