Example sentences of "there [modal v] well [vb infin] be [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Of course , there may well have been conjecture when so many people invaded Maternity when the infant was delivered , but that was something you permitted . ’ |
2 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
3 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
4 | But there may well have been situations in which the boot was on the other foot ; and in the centuries before the tenth , the centuries in which slavery was steadily declining , there is no reason to suppose that land was scarce , or that the landlords normally had the whip-hand . |
5 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |