Example sentences of "[noun] it may well " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if an application is made to patent a computer-controlled furnace it may well succeed and be granted a patent . |
| 2 | Unlike the previous deals involving the Scottish life industry , this one will not involve a straightforward demutualisation and takeover — although in practice it may well amount to a ‘ creeping takeover ’ . |
| 3 | However , even if the bureau has the typeface it may well not appear on the output due to the vagaries of Apple 's font numbering system . |
| 4 | Mr Sheffield said as Mr Elderfield was not complying with his medication it may well be that he had some form of epileptic fit but it could not be said with complete confidence . |
| 5 | They came to the conclusion that trusts offered a significant advantage only in their Republican days ; in that period it may well be that peregrines and other disadvantaged classes made good use of them . |
| 6 | In the case of Essex and Keith Fletcher it may well verge on the impossible . |
| 7 | However , as I have said , this proportional factor is too abstruse for beginners to consider , even though for more mature composers it may well be an abiding concern . |
| 8 | Indeed , for the first time computerization of a business it may well represent a better bet than the over-featured products such as Framework and Symphony . |
| 9 | A final point on this type of clause : if what is regarded as an initially reasonable figure is inserted in standard conditions and remains unchanged for a number of years it may well have become unreasonable through the impact of inflation , either in an absolute sense , or because average contract values have increased . |
| 10 | Thus , in the National Health Service it may well be the consultants that always seem to get their own way and the nurses rarely so . |
| 11 | In the civil service it may well be the small number of Permanent Secretaries heading government departments that make decisions . |
| 12 | This can be seen in the example of river action : in climates with rain at all seasons erosion and deposition are almost continuous except in so far as they are varied by floods ; in areas marginal to ice sheets the short periods of summer thaw , which result in enormous increases in the discharge of meltwater streams issuing from the ice , are the significant ones ; in deserts it may well be that the isolated rainfall , occurring perhaps once every five or ten years , is of greater significance than anything else . |
| 13 | When asked if it was the Ministry 's intention to sell the aircraft in an airworthy condition , the spokesman explained that the aircraft was airworthy , but felt there was a good chance it may well go to a museum who would want to road the airframe away . |
| 14 | As I think you will agree when you have looked at all the evidence it may well not have been quite so simple in this case to determine what was the best for the girl , as we , looking back on events from this point in time , may think . |
| 15 | Even at an early stage in the enquiry it may well be possible to decide what actual classifications will be used for these data . |
| 16 | In local government it may well be a small group of chief officers and committee chairpersons that control decisions . |
| 17 | In response to this line of thought it may well be pointed out that the subordination of woman to man is depicted in scripture as having resulted from the fall . |
| 18 | This is obviously the major book here , but owing to its hardback success it may well be a little disappointing as a paperback . |
| 19 | After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style ? |
| 20 | DGX is aiming at increasing its current budget of ECU95 million by about 30% , but after negotiations with member states it may well only be in the region of 15% . |
| 21 | In such a case it may well be advisable to draw up the contract to cover stages that can be defined in this way and make contracts for succeeding stages conditional upon achieving agreed criteria of success for prior stages . |
| 22 | If the People 's Party does badly in the election it may well reject the result . |
| 23 | Certainly she could not compete on anything like equal terms with Hilda Doolittle , the poet H.D. who , having mythologised her relations with Pound in a roman à clef many years ago , did it all over again just before her death in End to Torment , a supposed ‘ memoir ’ which people seem disposed to take literally , though in its scattiness it may well be as fictionalised as the novel had been . |
| 24 | Similarly , in the case of a local authority , formal authority to make decisions will rest with the full council ; but in reality it may well be that power is in the hands of a few councillors and chief officers such that the locus of decision making may be far removed from the full council meeting . |
| 25 | On the other hand it may well be true , as John said , that those with pale skins had an easier life and felt guilty about that . |
| 26 | On the other hand it may well be that you plan to reset the nets somewhere else and net again that same night . |
| 27 | Thus , for example , in a police operational matter it may well be that one individual must make a decision and make that decision quickly . |
| 28 | and judging by the success of the IRAS system it may well be 2 ½ years — as long , for example , as the Einstein X-ray Observatory survived . |
| 29 | If it attempts to return to the burrow system it may well become trapped on trying to get back underground . |
| 30 | In particular , if a historical perspective enters into the survey it may well be quite invaluable to interview old people for their memories of the community as it was so many years ago . |