Example sentences of "may well have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 At Rheims , Rouen , Sens or Bourges , the archbishops may well have assumed the functions ( and resources ) of those " greater " countships .
2 Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify .
3 He may well have seen the picture in the great series of paintings in Pope Innocent II 's ( 1130 – 43 ) new rooms at the Lateran .
4 M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works .
5 You know the government may well have given a priority for special needs
6 However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) .
7 In both cases , their separate experience may well have created a special atmosphere , although my informants all stressed that they got on perfectly well with the men at work .
8 But that interference may well have kept the review on course , as the clock ticked on and the derision from Labour grew louder .
9 After ten years , they may well have reached the zenith of maturity when they know no non-Christian friends at all !
10 Creative politics may well have served the lads handsomely at their inception , but it 's the stupid sounds that secure their place in history .
11 King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty .
12 Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable .
13 The individual teacher may well have made a significant development in his or her own understanding , but that is not a sufficient condition of securing publication ( thesis three ) .
14 However , he may well have made the wrong choice for the right reason .
15 As we saw in section 5.2 , recent changes in the nature of local politics may well have made the ideal-type of the dual state no longer applicable .
16 Such new sources of political energy may well have made the Athenians look hungrily away from their old markets to Sicily and Egypt .
17 Tectonic plate movement may well have split the Ghat , cutting off Sri Lanka from what is now Travancore .
18 It may well have influenced the Spanish style in the United States and reflected the role of American imperialism in assimilating a Spanish cultural heritage .
19 The organization of medieval universities into separate ‘ nations ’ must be taken into account , but study by English clerks at Paris may well have influenced the manner in which legal and diplomatic business was transacted with the French .
20 Throughout Childebert 's minority the power structure at the Austrasian court may well have favoured the likes of Boso , Rauching and Egidius .
21 The other foot may well have crossed the threshold .
22 The fiery and provocative pontificate of Pope Gregory VII may well have inspired the search which brought this manuscript to light .
23 It is recognized that in practice ‘ equality in equilibrium ’ is most unlikely to be reached , since well before such processes could have fully played themselves out other changes may well have disrupted the system in other ways .
24 Furthermore , although Anne 's pregnancy may well have determined the exact timing of the Act of Appeals , the statute 's assertion that England was an empire was by then well-established government policy and echoed arguments formulated several years earlier .
25 So the predilections of beavers centuries ago may well have determined the places where human beings have their towns today .
26 One should be aware that it may well have played an equally significant role in saving the Conservative Party from disintegration .
27 The reduction in the nature conservation interest will probably have been slight and reintroduction of light grazing may well have prevented a decline in floristic diversity in some upland , species-rich grasslands traditionally subject to such grazing .
28 We find that erm , most of our clients are recommended erm you may well have heard the expression we grow big , by being recommended .
29 The appearance of the results of the Irish Times opinion poll on the same day predicting the failure of the proposal may well have affected the turn-out .
30 The situation in the Gouriet case was a politically sensitive one and this may well have justified the court 's refusal in that case to review the Attorney-General 's decision , but it is not clear that such refusal would be justified in every case .
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