Example sentences of "may well [verb] be [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It can also be argued that there are many references in the Old Testament to conditions that may well have been syphilis .
2 The general assumption of Gratian and his collaborators ( ironically they may well have been monks working with him in the Camaldolese monastery in Bologna and not the new secular law clerks of the future ) was that the contradictions in the early canon law were only superficial or apparent .
3 Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills .
4 There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round .
5 Of course , there may well have been conjecture when so many people invaded Maternity when the infant was delivered , but that was something you permitted . ’
6 Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) and Intolerance ( 1916 ) may well have been masterpieces but they were also very obviously controversial and guaranteed to shock sections of the great audience .
7 On the other hand , one source of satisfaction to the USSR , as one of the world 's major gold producers , may well have been news released in September 1980 that New York gold prices had soared on reports that war had broken out .
8 There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases .
9 But there may well have been situations in which the boot was on the other foot ; and in the centuries before the tenth , the centuries in which slavery was steadily declining , there is no reason to suppose that land was scarce , or that the landlords normally had the whip-hand .
10 I heard my name being called , it may well have been Louis erm come forward and I heard it , I understood it to be P C voice .
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