Example sentences of "it may well be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 2 | Indeed it may well be intended as a statement as to what should be the case in the eschaton . |
| 3 | And , in all probability , their imaginations will , as they say , boggle because , as you have never seen that scene in your mind 's eye , it may well be riddled with improbabilities if it is not a downright impossibility . |
| 4 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 5 | Our huggable bunny may well be eaten by a fox , it may well be eaten by us , or it may start to be eaten by micro-organisms , die and be finished off by other microorganisms . |
| 6 | I understand it may well be delegated , anyway . |
| 7 | The belief that early experience determines adult behaviour is so widespread that it may well be regarded as common sense . |
| 8 | If , for example , the driver 's national insurance contributions are paid partly by the haulier it may well be presumed that the driver is an employee . |
| 9 | After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style ? |
| 10 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 11 | In the matter of misguided teaching , it may well be asked to what extent the missionaries of the western world have contributed to the immense amount of suffering endured by underdeveloped peoples . |
| 12 | It may well be pointed out that he could have taken a safer route but this was not possible . |
| 13 | In response to this line of thought it may well be pointed out that the subordination of woman to man is depicted in scripture as having resulted from the fall . |
| 14 | It may well be argued that the government was able to defeat the General Strike by its propaganda campaigns , the arrest of Communist activists , the use of volunteers and by sheer patience , in allowing the General Council 's Negotiating Committee to spend several futile days negotiating the Samuel Memorandum in the hope that it would provide a basis for a settlement . |
| 15 | For the call to liberate the poor , it may well be said , is to be read directly out of scripture . |
| 16 | It may well be said that the patriarchal understanding of what it means to be male is abandoned . |
| 17 | It may well be accepted that a person who is deported should have greater protection than one who is refused entry , or that a person whose permit has expired has a lesser interest than one whose permit is revoked . |
| 18 | I hope that you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , will impound the Secretary of State 's passport because it may well be needed when the full inquiry gets under way . |
| 19 | Meetings , Bloody Meetings is the title of a well-known training film produced by Video Arts Ltd , and it may well be shown to you on your course . |
| 20 | Discussion and debate may need ( as with the Humanities Curriculum Project ) packs of supporting data , and if paper is short some of it may well be put on overhead transparencies and projected when relevant . |
| 21 | However , if the timing of the mother starting work coincides with other disturbing events such as death of the father , it may well be interpreted as a threatening event and lead to some distress . |
| 22 | It may well be burnt together with the corpse as an equal form of the physical detritus of death . |
| 23 | This seems in principle to be an equally available justification as regards the mentally unfit , even though it may well be deplored . |