Example sentences of "well have [vb pp] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from these omissions , the balance sheet appraisal ignores the economic impact of war on attitudes , expectations and the behaviour of institutions , which might well have operated in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | The horrifying thing about , for instance , Robert Nichols 's review in the Observer for 11 January 1920 — ‘ Mr Pound , indeed , serves his lobster â l'Américaine ’ — is that it could perfectly well have appeared in the Observer last Sunday . |
| 3 | The molecules may well have existed in the primeval nebula from which the bodies of the Solar System formed , about 4.5 x 109 years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just that I might as well have stayed in the sitting-room , that 's all . ’ |
| 5 | Yet this device , along with the interpolation of the source marker at an early point in the quotation , may well have originated in the oral storytelling tradition . |
| 6 | The solo vocal coloratura of ‘ Audi caelum ’ , echoed by an unspecified instrument , and the instrumental ritornelli of ‘ Ave maris stella ’ could equally well have originated in the opera . |
| 7 | Swapping speed for japery may well have resulted in the conversion of that fallen Boar into bacon . |
| 8 | Previous weight-loss or crash diets may well have failed in the short or long term because they did not take into account problems you might have had with food allergy or intolerance . |
| 9 | He was young , and not at all bad-looking ; she thought that it could well have happened in a much worse way . |
| 10 | In their discussion of this incident Asikpasazade and Nesri refer to " Mevlana Haydar " as danismend " newly come from Persia " , so that he may well have arrived in the Ottoman lands at about the same time as Fahreddin Acemi . |