Example sentences of "well [vb infin] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats . |
| 2 | The change might well have been partly due to the intense interest in American research at the time into the political socialisation of children . |
| 3 | What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism . |
| 4 | One hundred year ago Prof Peabody might well have been equally indignant had she been called a scientist , and would have said ( as did Faraday and Kelvin ) ‘ I prefer to be called a natural philosopher ’ . |
| 5 | This would fit the many reports that had the young mother dying in childbirth , for had it been one of the aforementioned ladies Wild Will might well have been rather proud of himself . |
| 6 | Becket may well have been closely involved in building the great walls of packed clay which still enclose the local ‘ innings ’ , or sheep pastures . |
| 7 | At the same time a was decreed , and as a sop to the kazaskers who may well have been most jealous of the fact that the Mufti " s salary now surpassed their own — each was allowed to invest ten . |
| 8 | But where erosion has removed the outer shell , the elegant curving walls of the flotation chambers that are revealed remind you that these creatures may well have been virtually weightless in water . |
| 9 | All added up to subsistence farming in its most rudimentary form , with minimal trading and scarcely any money circulating , so that the assessors ' valuation of livestock — and household effects — may well have been frankly notional . |
| 10 | Consultations with other doctors in Britain suggested that something like this format may well have been fairly common in the past with the very poorest patients , while modern studies of casualty departments revealed that something approximating to it was still used with the most stigmatised of patients . |
| 11 | The Conservatives may have tried to go it alone and form a minority government , but some kind of party-splitting coalition government could well have been more likely . |
| 12 | Faraday was a friend of Turner and an admirer of his work , and might well have been more sympathetic to his attempts to catch the effects of light in paint . |
| 13 | At any rate from 1571 it might well have been very disadvantageous for anyone in the district to openly profess allegiance to the Popish ways and Roman Catholic miners well might have been driven underground — and that is not fully intended as a pun . |
| 14 | A policy of investment autarky could well have been very costly in terms of lost economic growth [ Dunning , 1979 ; Gomulka , 1979 ; Reddaway et al. , 1967 , 1968 ] . |
| 15 | Had disabled people been consulted and involved in the planning of the project from the start , the main emphasis of the work may well have been very different . |
| 16 | er , I , I ca n't say that they became inaccurate , they may well have been entirely accurate for the whole of the period from when they were first produced through to September nineteen eighty six |
| 17 | The coastal areas of Frisia were effectively independent in the late seventh and early eighth centuries , but previously they may well have been under Frankish control . |
| 18 | Wherever there was no chaplain the incumbent could very well have been truly poor , unable to afford the stipend . |
| 19 | Had the survey been set within an authority ( like Oxfordshire , the West Riding of Yorkshire or Berkshire ) where progressive methods had been longer practised , the findings might well have been radically different . |
| 20 | In fact , the effect on all forms of life may well have been as devastating as the ‘ nuclear winter ’ which will occur should the nations of Earth ever engage in a nuclear war . |
| 21 | All at once one of the birds — it seemed enormous to the child , but may well have been as small as a sparrow — flew into the air and fluttered past the pushchair , its wings actually brushing the little girl 's face . |
| 22 | He had it then , as clear as a map of a well-charted route unfolded on the captain 's table , what lay in store for him and for the settlement ; though the islanders had not burned wet leaves and swelled white smoke into a pillar of cloud to issue a warning , the signal might as well have been as clear . |
| 23 | Cambro-Ordovician accumulation may well have been substantially greater , with corresponding erosion in mid-Ordovician or Devonian times . |