Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] well [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 2 | But time-wise the gap between them may well be much more important than the time-span within them . |
| 3 | ‘ If it is so important to you , Miss Kenton , I will allow that the Chinaman behind me may well be incorrectly situated . |
| 4 | Yours may well be toothache . ’ |
| 5 | My meadow , which I may well be contemplating with pleasure even as you read this , is a delight . |
| 6 | Patting the chair beside him , he told Daisy , ‘ If Perdita gets the scholarship , Sukey and I may well be going out to New Zealand at the same time to buy some ponies , so we can keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 7 | I may well be addressing a future Inquisitor — ’ |
| 8 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 9 | Just across the street from here , I think — although after so long I may well be mistaken . |
| 10 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 11 | Well , the way things are going this season I could well be clearing off . |
| 12 | He had n't yet said who ‘ they ’ were , but Robert had a fairly good idea that some of them might well be unemployed young men pretending to be Muslims in order to worm their way into jobs that should have been occupied by the Faithful . |
| 13 | Mercifully the Long Island Expressway , which Mrs Meadows had warned them might well be one long traffic jam , was proving to be relatively uncrowded . |
| 14 | The librarian himself may well be closely involved , but the controlling function normally rests with head of acquisitions . |
| 15 | The authority has worked out a scheme which may well be copied around the country by councils faced with an increasing number of travellers . |
| 16 | Sometimes effective land-use management and watershed management requires a number of institutions of this kind to agree , which may well be even more difficult because of unequal costs and benefits of conservation measures between different communities or villages . |
| 17 | One should not forget other commonly used substances , such as bleach and hair dye or nail polish and perfumes , which may well be left out in the bathroom or bedroom . |
| 18 | The most common result of a visit to a museum is to come away with only disparate fragments of information , together with some general impressions which may well be , in certain important respects , incipiently misleading . |
| 19 | Because it is difficult to get everyone together , too little time and consideration will be given to making the final decision , which may well be made simply to bring the meeting to a close because one or other member of the panel has to get away . |
| 20 | Speakers ' use of creole varieties lie along a continuum , from varieties of creole which may well be incomprehensible to a speaker of Standard English , to varieties much closer to Standard English ; |
| 21 | More fun is to be had with the excitable Katch-22 , who favours the talking-about-himself approach to rap and a wider range of noises , most notably on the sprightly ‘ Service With A Smile ’ , which may well be the first tune ever to contain the line ‘ You paedophile ’ . |
| 22 | Since fires often start at night , and most homes only have one flight of stairs , which may well be unusable , it pays to work out in advance possible escape routes from upstairs windows — ideally one leading on to a flat roof , otherwise one with a flowerbed or grass below , rather than a hard surface . |
| 23 | However , it does suggest that the issue of how and why children come to be labelled as abused is a problem in its own right , and one which may well be prior to questions of cause and control . |
| 24 | Contemporaries believed that Edward was persuaded to revive his claim in 1337 by Robert of Artois who , according to a story which may well be apocryphal and which has attracted widely differing interpretations , placed a heron before the king at a banquet . |
| 25 | The Central Office of Information is another organisation which may well be able to use your photographs . |
| 26 | Finally , once the client has agreed the schedule with the agency ( which may well be done before the content of the ads is finally agreed ) , it is the media person 's job to go out into the marketplace and buy the press space , the poster sites or the TV , radio or cinema spots . |
| 27 | We should also be careful to distinguish between overt formal parts , which may well be labelled or explicitly stated in the original , and parts which discourse senders and receivers orientate to but do not label . |
| 28 | Cooper ( 1984 ) has suggested that there is far more disagreement amongst scientists than Kuhn allows for , which may well be true . |
| 29 | It is a peculiarity of this disease that the disease itself creates a wish not to be cured or only to be cured if and when the patient decides to cure himself or herself , which may well be too late . |
| 30 | Secondly , this structure shows a number of interesting departures from the canonical B form which may well be involved in its specific recognition . |