Example sentences of "[pers pn] may well be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just across the street from here , I think — although after so long I may well be mistaken . |
| 2 | Once you have started the course , you may well be given specific routines to accomplish with your pet between these lessons . |
| 3 | You may well be asked to sing something unaccompanied , or do a short improvisation and you may well be asked to perform one of the speeches in a different way . |
| 4 | You may well be asked to sing something unaccompanied , or do a short improvisation and you may well be asked to perform one of the speeches in a different way . |
| 5 | You may well be asked by the conference director , Norman T. Shepherd to submit a synopsis . |
| 6 | This may seem rather excessive just for giving one speech , but if this is your first and you speak well , you may well be asked to give speeches later at other weddings and functions . |
| 7 | You may well be asked for your advice . |
| 8 | If you 've worked your way conscientiously through all the preceding chapters , sorted out the roof over your head , sussed out the teaching staff , discovered your way round the library and begun to develop good study habits , you may well be forgiven for thinking you wo n't find much time or space or energy left for anything like sex or love . |
| 9 | Now older and perhaps a little more clay-wise , with a win already this year over Monica Seles at Key Biscayne and with her father Stefano as her coach once again , she may well be settled enough to go all the way for the first time , which of course , would be a remarkable achievement for a 16 year old . |
| 10 | If the rest of us can not beat the gangsters , we may well be tempted to join them . |
| 11 | Otherwise , if the team does n't show up after one or two public announcements , they may well be disbarred . |
| 12 | Feelings that have been firmly repressed , near the surface yet still not sufficiently available to be formed into words , can express themselves through bodily symptoms ; if these feelings relate to permeability , they may well be expressed on the skin - rashes , blotches , spots and boils — and become boundary symptoms . |
| 13 | For other social groups , however , they may well be seen as back regions to be avoided . |
| 14 | They may well be tempted to take their businesses private again . |
| 15 | Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms . |
| 16 | They may well be faced with owners who demand that the operation be done , with the only alternative that their pet cat be destroyed . |
| 17 | Least successful so far in winning customers has been the Eucom joint venture between France Telecom and the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , but even they may well be welcomed as WorldPartners by AT&T , despite the heavy whiff of state bureaucracy that hangs over both of them . |
| 18 | Waterlilies can be allowed to die back naturally , but any leaves with soft , crumbling edges or spreading black blotches should be regarded with suspicion and removed , as they may well be infected by waterlily leaf spot . |
| 19 | In view of the wide effects that defects in this metabolic system can have on the body , they may well be suited to study of the polychrests — that is , the remedies with a wide sphere of action such as Natrum muriaticum , silica , sepia , lycopodium , sulphur , phosphorus or lachesis to name but a few . |
| 20 | If these latter are part of the design team then already we have a matrix organisation but they may well be provided on a service basis from some other part of the parent organisation . |
| 21 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 22 | Indeed it may well be intended as a statement as to what should be the case in the eschaton . |
| 23 | And , in all probability , their imaginations will , as they say , boggle because , as you have never seen that scene in your mind 's eye , it may well be riddled with improbabilities if it is not a downright impossibility . |
| 24 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 25 | Our huggable bunny may well be eaten by a fox , it may well be eaten by us , or it may start to be eaten by micro-organisms , die and be finished off by other microorganisms . |
| 26 | I understand it may well be delegated , anyway . |
| 27 | The belief that early experience determines adult behaviour is so widespread that it may well be regarded as common sense . |
| 28 | If , for example , the driver 's national insurance contributions are paid partly by the haulier it may well be presumed that the driver is an employee . |
| 29 | After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style ? |
| 30 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |