Example sentences of "they may well have " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 2 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 3 | But since 1988 they may well have taken out ‘ Le Mortgage ’ offered by the French company 's British offshoot , UCB Group , to finance their terrain gastronomique . |
| 4 | There is interesting speculation about the Rainbow Inn , for the rainbow was one of the signs of the Dyers ' guild , and they may well have gathered here when work was done . |
| 5 | They may well have elderly parents who need to be cared for , whether physically or materially , and they may cause a good deal of pressure . |
| 6 | After ten years , they may well have reached the zenith of maturity when they know no non-Christian friends at all ! |
| 7 | These herbs would have been among those grown for medicinal purposes by the monks in days gone by and they may well have been planted by ponds stocked with carp in the grounds of the monastery . |
| 8 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 9 | It was a significant moment , because had the more gifted Muscovites taken control then , they may well have swamped Rangers with their precise , but powerful play . |
| 10 | By not putting the matter to the test they may well have spared themselves refusal . |
| 11 | Moreover , since immature goats are subordinate to older ones , they may well have to give up any patch of food they find to a larger , more dominant animal . |
| 12 | They may well have certain cerebral pre-adaptations that subtended vocalised speech linked with gesture , which responded in some ancestral line to pressures of selection for an ever more complex code of communication . |
| 13 | They may well have to take detailed briefings and relay them to the creative department , so memory and an articulate mind are essential . |
| 14 | On the contrary , they may well have moved much closer to the type which will be referred to as putatively postmodernist . |
| 15 | ( We shall see in Chapters 2 , 4 and 9 that they may well have good grounds for this belief . ) |
| 16 | They may well have sufficient intelligence and understanding fully to appreciate the treatment proposed and the consequences of their refusal to accept that treatment . |
| 17 | Proportionally , quite a lot of black teenagers become pregnant too , and they may well have to contend with racism and discrimination in many areas of their lives . |
| 18 | However , in the context of the volatile reaction , both internal and external , to a relatively mild Agrarian Reform initiative , they may well have served to endorse Castro 's conclusion that the social change which he wanted the revolution to effect in Cuba was incompatible with extremely powerful domestic and foreign economic interests . |
| 19 | If they had interviewed the — what were then termed — clerical officers and assistants , they may well have come up with different results . |
| 20 | They may well have had sexual intercourse regularly before the act in question and , because a sexual relationship may involve a degree of compromise , she may sometimes have agreed only with some reluctance to such intercourse . |
| 21 | But if he started talking Buddhism at them , they may well have taken fright . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They may well have been foreign . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 25 | They may well have a reflex aetiology with an afferent arc situated in the colonic wall as well as in the gastric wall — not unlike the gastrocolic reflex . |
| 26 | But for those who could receive a smattering of instruction at home , or who had spent a short while at day schools in their infancy , they may well have nourished a plant that might otherwise have ceased to grow , or even withered . |
| 27 | The coastal areas of Frisia were effectively independent in the late seventh and early eighth centuries , but previously they may well have been under Frankish control . |
| 28 | They may well have been in the right : the tendency of some Merovingians to take and discard wives at will , that is to practise serial monogamy , meant that there was no clearly defined family tree . |
| 29 | As far as J P Woods is concerned Chairman , erm , they may well have their workforce , and extended right up |
| 30 | Both , of course , are mammals descended from land-dwelling ancestors , and they may well have " invented " the whale way of life independently of one another , starting from different land-dwelling ancestors . |