Example sentences of "may well have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In both cases , their separate experience may well have created a special atmosphere , although my informants all stressed that they got on perfectly well with the men at work .
2 King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty .
3 The individual teacher may well have made a significant development in his or her own understanding , but that is not a sufficient condition of securing publication ( thesis three ) .
4 The increase in this woodland may well have had a beneficial effect on the Woodcock and has provided the increasing breeding Redpoll population with an abundance of habitat .
5 Nonetheless , he may well have had a guilty conscience : he certainly tried to use his influence to poison Mozart 's career , out of sheer jealousy at the younger man 's superior talents ; but he does not seem to have been directly involved in his death .
6 The flock are unlikely to have been as completely innocent as the latter suggests , and their guilt may well have had a secular aspect , for it might be doubted whether Cnut would have become involved with spiritual shortcomings .
7 Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing .
8 What I have presented as analysis of current movements may well have acquired a historical flavour by the time these words are read .
9 Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser .
10 To Henry it may well have seemed a sensible way of killing two birds with one stone — chastising rebels and at the same time providing his warlike second son with useful experience .
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