Example sentences of "well [vb infin] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , yes , but you ca n't very well knock on a monastery gate and say , ‘ May I have some poison ? ’ and expect the father abbot or prior to hand it over without a question . |
| 2 | The traffic impact of any development could be accommodated without serious detriment to the surrounding area , but although the above constraints are not seen as insurmountable , they may well act as a deterrent to development . |
| 3 | You say , Mr , that the constraints to which I 've already referred may well act as a deterrent er to potential developers ? |
| 4 | Might as well hang for a sheep as a lamb . |
| 5 | ‘ She can damn well wait for a minute , ’ McLeish decided . |
| 6 | writes for an audience far wider than the historian of science , and although these essays may present some challenge for the uninitiated , today 's working scientist ( looking beyond the arguments about supercolliders or the effects of retroviruses on the human population ) could well profit from a dip into this book . |
| 7 | So camp one might as well watch from a tent . |
| 8 | It follows that , contextual substitutions apart , naming symbols can never be entirely replaced by descriptive phrases , for this would mean substituting non-rigid designators for rigid ones , which might very well result in a change of truth-value of the propositions concerned . |
| 9 | Changes in rights of audience may well result in a slimming down of the practising Bar . |
| 10 | Falling standards of care may well result from a transfer of responsibility from professional agencies to family care . |
| 11 | But according to your ability and initiative , you could well transfer to a production company or become a producer yourself . |
| 12 | Such codes should always be accompanied by sanctions for offenders , and must recognise that misunderstandings may well occur as a result of the purchaser 's mistaken expectations , as well as by the failure on the part of the provider of the service or the manufacturer of the product to deliver . |
| 13 | That is the kind of exploit he might well claim after a drink or two , expecting his audience first to gasp , then to roar with laughter . |
| 14 | Your first effort may well look like a rag doll , but this is quite adequate to begin with . |
| 15 | Your first effort may well look like a rag doll , but this is quite adequate to begin with . |
| 16 | If they 're gon na be driving from village to village , they might as well work from a police station and drive from village to village in a transit van or a police vehicle . |
| 17 | Erm , quality of print paper down the print shop does have to be checked so they may well use as a guide but they wo n't necessarily go thorough all the cost estimates . |
| 18 | The publications you produce may well fit into a set of identifiable categories ; brochures , newsletters , flyers , books , manuals and so on but it 's how you produce them that 's important . |
| 19 | You may as well sleep under a hedge or in a doorway , and get arrested for being a vagrant , and get put in jail where you 'll be treated like muck but at any rate it 'll be warm and you 'll be made to have a bath . |
| 20 | Spiritual direction may well develop within a context of friendship . |
| 21 | Moreover , if we make indiscriminate use of drafting , if it is invariably or artificially imposed , it may well lead to a child 's interest in writing declining . |
| 22 | Moreover , an inconclusive rule might well lead to a preference for uncertainty , if that can be positively exploited . |
| 23 | The framework of support so established might well lead to a partnership between schools and LEAs which gives more effective support to those working within the institution . |
| 24 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 25 | There are good reasons to believe that the branching pattern and shape of the dendrites may also be important and may well change as a result of training or other types of experience . |
| 26 | A bookshop 's customer base might well change as a result of changing stock profile . |
| 27 | A young research social scientist could well go into a factory and tell the people she worked with that she was a student on a placement for , say , three months , learning about the realities of factory work , when in fact she was a graduate research worker carrying out a carefully planned study of labour-management relationships . |
| 28 | Jesus , I might as well go into a nunnery and be done with it . ’ |
| 29 | Watching the other girl jog into the distance , Lindsey hesitated fractionally before deciding that she might as well go for a swim anyway . |
| 30 | When asked if it was the Ministry 's intention to sell the aircraft in an airworthy condition , the spokesman explained that the aircraft was airworthy , but felt there was a good chance it may well go to a museum who would want to road the airframe away . |