Example sentences of "well [verb] be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well ferret 's a wild animal |
| 2 | For the rest of the trip there might as well have been a sound-proof grill between the front and back seats , Shannon reflected wryly . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , Meyer 's stalking-horse challenge in 1989 may well have been a necessary prerequisite for the substantive challenge in 1990 because it broke the psychological barrier against mounting a challenge when the party was in office . |
| 4 | It did n't really matter , their expressions seemed to say , he might as well have been a short-order cook or a deep-sea diver or a male prostitute . |
| 5 | Poseidon 's power was at this early time far greater than that of Velchanos : he received large-scale sacrificial offerings at Pylos , and may well have been a major deity on Minoan Crete too . |
| 6 | Time to Declare by David Owen ( Penguin , £7.99 ) — Had he not fallen out with the Alliance , this passionate rebel male might well have been a key figure in this the general election . |
| 7 | This may well have been a contributory factor in the prevalence of death in child-birth . |
| 8 | He had no idea she already had suspicions which might well have been a contributory factor to her miscarriage . |
| 9 | The truth was Denis O'Neil Senior could well have been a professional singer . |
| 10 | They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of someone 's attic . |
| 11 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 12 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |
| 13 | Gingerly he reached out to touch it ; it might as well have been a physical part of his wife 's anatomy , like an ear or a finger . |
| 14 | As we have already noted , he may well have been a militant nationalist who did not shrink from violence . |
| 15 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 16 | Not so well known is a thirty-ninth folly , also paid for by Lord Cobham of Stowe , in the centre of nearby Buckingham . |