Example sentences of "may well [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On first entering your college library , you may well feel daunted by the sight of so many books and journals . |
| 2 | Such situations as were faced by these librarians in the early part of 1986 were not new and no doubt will recur , and librarians may well feel forced to take the same course of action in future . |
| 3 | When the other person is less formal and more forthcoming , he or she may well feel compromised by their self-disclosure which has not been reciprocated . |
| 4 | In that sense , thinking anything adequate about commercial television may well involve ignoring it and thinking about something else : in ( this ) instance , experimental video … . |
| 5 | When working with the patient who considers himself a consistent failure in a particular area of his life , part of that treatment may well involve regressing him to the time of one of these earlier successes . |
| 6 | My analysis of the particular qualities of the institution shows that it may well extend to cover a homosexual union . |
| 7 | Opposition Members may well decide to make some progress and we may get to new clause 9 and to others further down the list , we can not be sure about that . |
| 8 | We may well decide to attempt to rescue Colonel Steiner . ’ |
| 9 | During the remainder of 1990 you may well decide to find out what life has to offer elsewhere . |
| 10 | You may well decide to twist even further when using the front punch , but beware that your situation is weakened should the opponent immediately counter — attack . |
| 11 | It may well be the case , as Struan says , that Beethoven displays more artistic merit than Struan , but if Struan 's music uses overdriven guitars , I may well prefer to listen to it . |
| 12 | If you entertain a lot you may well prefer to have your kitchen separate from the dining area , unless you opt for a large and deliberately-for-dining kitchen . |
| 13 | In such cases , if what is being transferred is a part only of the business , the employee may well prefer to assert a claim to continue employment with the transferor in the retained parts of the business this was the stance of the employees in Katsikas . |
| 14 | In short , it gave me ‘ back-bone ’ ( which you may well break attempting to clean these windows ) . |
| 15 | It may well pay to consider moving house , to an area where the local state schools are good — at least up to age thirteen — and to embark upon fee-paying education at a later stage . |
| 16 | The copyright on photographs taken by press agencies belongs to them and they may well expect to sell the pictures to news or picture editors . |
| 17 | While Lord Young , for the Government , may well favour selling parts of the United Kingdom to Japan ( " They ca n't take it with them " ) there are many who wish the club to remain part of Britain 's heritage . |
| 18 | Indeed , it may well serve to do some injustice and violence to the integrity of the substantive phenomena . |
| 19 | That development work or experiments which involve modification of the national curriculum in a school will require the approval of the Secretary of State may well serve to inhibit some forms of school-based curriculum innovation . |
| 20 | Japan will also see a rising number of corporate-bond issues in coming years , which may well serve to put further upward pressure on bond yields regardless of interest-rate developments . |
| 21 | The public flogging anticipated at the annual general meeting of the City watchdog , Fimbra , may well fail to materialise . |
| 22 | But if I , with the very same eyes and brain , am walking through a forest at dusk , I may well fail to distinguish almost any dull-coloured insect from the twigs that abound everywhere . |
| 23 | Asserting this , however , as cold legal doctrine may well fail to convince the doctor who has to make his decision in the real world and must weigh all the arguments advanced above . |
| 24 | If a dog wants food , for example when you are preparing a meal , then it may well start to whine until you give it some scraps . |
| 25 | Juice extractors are a good idea for people living alone because they enable you just to juice one orange at a time , when you fancy some juice , whereas a litre carton may well start fermenting before one person can drink it all . |
| 26 | That view may well start to change in 1991 . |
| 27 | Ironically , Gloucester look likely to be one of the sides they may well pass going in the other direction if the Tynesiders fulfil their three-year plan . |
| 28 | Ironically , Gloucester look likely to be one of the sides they may well pass going in the other direction if the Tynesiders fulfil their three-year plan . |
| 29 | It is unlikely these days that you would want a new back boiler to provide all your central heating needs , but you may well want to replace one which provides domestic hot water . |
| 30 | Of course a theologian may move far from her background and Trible may well want to claim that she has done so . |