Example sentences of "well [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 'd better not be told , because I should only begin counting up all the things I 'd missed , and you 're better off not knowing what you 've missed . ’ |
| 2 | Young and persistent offenders are usually better off being caught and dealt with by the RUC , than by the local ‘ judge and jury ’ . |
| 3 | Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth . |
| 4 | ‘ Is that his gun you 're field-stripping ? — and if so , had n't it better really be thrown away now ? |
| 5 | An increase in the pension , though , may well only be based on the amount you have left . |
| 6 | Most builders use a simple cost system for job costing ( specific order costing ) and the stores department may well just be treated as another job or cost centre with monthly costing which is balanced and closed on an annual basis . |
| 7 | As one consultant said : ‘ We may have overdone it to the extent that , apart from in certain industries , risk management may well already be regarded as old hat . ’ |
| 8 | In what I say here I may well not be followed in every respect by one or another scholar , and there are matters open to a different interpretation . |
| 9 | Their reports could be commented on by the head of mission ; but they might well not be seen at all by the imperial chancellor , who had formal responsibility for the conduct of German foreign policy . |
| 10 | Although land-use decisions are made by the household , these may well not be made equally by all members of it , and this may be significant in the perception of conservation and any government sponsored conservation programme . |
| 11 | In a rape case , by contrast , a defendant who says he believed in consent when the girl had demonstrated her lack of it may very well not be believed . |
| 12 | ‘ A woman without children might as well not be born , ’ said Mrs Khalid . |
| 13 | Thus a number of sections become cut off from the entrances and these might well not be reopened . |
| 14 | In practice , this equilibrium may well not be attained ; since convergence may be slow . |
| 15 | According to Rawls ' seminal work ( Rawls , 1972 ) , inequality should only be tolerated if the least well off are advantaged . |
| 16 | Mrs Worthington 's daughter might well still be warned off the stage ; what about EFL ? |
| 17 | These decisions may well also be affected by geographical mobility both for employment and retirement . |
| 18 | Territorial instincts in people may well now be disconnected from the fact that , say , food is provided on an increasingly international basis . |