Example sentences of "well have be [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Pietro Miletti gave a short laugh that sounded unpleasantly arrogant and mocking , although it might equally well have been nervous in origin .
2 The , possibly , stodgy readers of the Sunday Telegraph may well have been surprised by Susannah Herbert 's enthusiasm : ‘ Jilly Cooper breaks all the rules of romantic fiction in The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous .
3 The Mercians would seem to have had influence in Berkshire at an earlier date in the reign of Wulfhere and the same may well have been true of Somerset , in which case what Aethelbald was doing was appropriating border territories traditionally in dispute between the Mercians and the western Saxons .
4 Such an interruption of the Kentish regnal succession may reflect disturbed conditions attendant on Wulfhere 's annexation of Surrey for Wulfhere , the uncle of Eadric and Wihtred , could well have been hostile to Hlothhere 's succession in Kent .
5 ‘ Yolande could well have been terrified of Alexander , or , ’ she added , ‘ Yolande may have been a lover of other women .
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