Example sentences of "[modal v] well [be] that he " in BNC.

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1 If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner .
2 It may well be that he considered payment of the levy was a necessary prerequisite of obtaining the licence and hence amounted to a form of compulsion .
3 It may well be that he could be described as a statutory tenant ; but that description would not itself accurately define his precise position , for he was a statutory tenant against whom a final order had been made , under which possession was to be delivered up on a fixed date , 3 April 1950 , he having died on the previous 8 March .
4 Secondly , he was a glaciologist and it may well be that he persuaded the pilot to swin' away to the east .
5 It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously .
6 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 .
7 It may well be that he considered that it was not the right thing for him to do , after all , he was a good Jew and why should he marry a Moabite .
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