Example sentences of "well [vb infin] [been] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The heads of the wadis are very abrupt and there is no evidence of water having spilled into them from the plateau surface : on the other hand caves within the wadis may well have been formerly occupied by springs during a period of higher rainfall .
2 As we shall see , this may well have been politically motivated to the extent that the relics of the archbishop so recently and brutally murdered by Cnut 's countrymen were perhaps serving as a rallying point for discontent in the city .
3 The 1647 drop in production too might well have been mistakenly explained in terms of the course of the war .
4 It may well have been so intended , as it was in the Canadian case of Malette v. Shulman ( 1990 ) 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 where the Jehovah 's Witness carried a card stating in unequivocal terms that she did not wish blood to be administered to her in any circumstances .
5 Although some of the more sophisticated lawyers may well have been culturally alienated from the mass of the people , these practitioners charged high fees and served only the élite .
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