Example sentences of "may well [vb infin] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latimer and Neville were probably the dominant figures at court between 1369 and 1376 , and their influence over the king may well have been greater than that of John of Gaunt and his brothers . |
| 2 | Looking back there was no sibling rivalry problem and in our case ‘ prevention may well have been better than cure ’ . ’ |
| 3 | While the exact size of this latter group is unclear , Peter Clark has estimated that as many as one fifth of the population of Kent regularly stayed away from church in the later sixteenth century , and the situation may well have been worse in the peripheral ‘ dark corners of the land ’ to the north and west . |
| 4 | Doubtless the Court was influenced by the fact that though the risk to employees may well have been minimal ( and two accidents in two years would suggest that that was not so ) the consequences of any such risk materialising were potentially serious and , indeed , in one instance had been fatal . |
| 5 | He asked me to call again and this invitation may well have been genuine ; my acceptance was not . |
| 6 | The area of Gallia Ulterior conceded to the Alans may well have been that area which had supported Tibatto , and the grant may well have been a means of punishing the rebels and keeping them under surveillance , as well as being a reward for the followers of Goar . |
| 7 | Some confusion exists as to the original scratchplate , and there may well have been two variations . |
| 8 | There may well have been other such incidents . |
| 9 | However , there may well have been other pressures on working class men as individuals , causing them to oppose the work of their wives . |
| 10 | In the history of English parliaments it was a decisive encounter , although in terms of Sussex where commoners rather than knights or lords died it may well have been one of the familiar disasters around which ordinary life had to continue . |
| 11 | The Texas prison system may well have been one of the fastest expanding systems in recent history . |
| 12 | This dilemma may well have been one of the factors that precipitated his eventual madness , which began in 1802 : that possibility adequately suggests the existential seriousness of the Greek ideal for the German writers under its spell . |
| 13 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 14 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 15 | The patients ' symptoms of bladder outflow obstruction may well have been due to benign prostatic hypertrophy and the coexistent prostatic cancer may have been an incidental finding . |
| 16 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 17 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 18 | For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional . |
| 19 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 20 | She may well have been right about this . |
| 21 | She may well have been right . |
| 22 | He may well have been right . |
| 23 | Nicholas 's personal judgement may well have been crucial in blocking negotiations with the Kadets in the fluid situation that prevailed in the first half of 1906 . |
| 24 | However , when the play was written ( in 1601 ) Shakespeare may well have been familiar with the Latin or Greek version , but his audience in the main would not . |
| 25 | Dr Robert Eisenman , whom we cited earlier , believes there may well have been close links between Simeon 's family and the descendants of Jesus 's — if , indeed , they were not one and the same . |
| 26 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 27 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 28 | And he may well have been correct in thinking that , in France at any rate , such men were less likely to take advantage of women . |
| 29 | As such , sociology ( including urban sociology ) may well have been premature in rejecting these kinds of understanding . |
| 30 | There may well have been another , more subtle , reason underlying the Church 's position . |