Example sentences of "could well [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could well be that an Australian will win for the first time . |
| 2 | A B&Q spokesman said last night : ‘ Because our store was the closest to the viaduct it took the full force of the blast and it could well be that we are talking of a complete demolition . |
| 3 | This might put pressures on the sons and it could well be that not all would feel able or willing to take on the task . |
| 4 | It could well be that there are many more signals operating between cells than is currently suspected . |
| 5 | It 's important to remember the classification tells you about the minimum facilities available : it could well be that a Listed establishment , for example , will also provide some of the services and facilities found at a higher Crown level . |
| 6 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 7 | If indeed this was how he happened upon verre anglais , it could well be that it was in England , not Spain , that Dom Pérignon rediscovered the cork . |
| 8 | It could well be that someone has tried to make this look like murder followed by suicide . ’ |
| 9 | Most of these detailed demographic studies have been made with pasture or woodland systems in northern temperate regions and it could well be that in arid zones , and some other extreme environments , biotic pressures are less dominant and then climatic factors may play the major role in killing plants and in natural selection . |
| 10 | If IQ were entirely inherited ( a contentious assumption ) and if IQ were related to crime ( many studies have found that low IQ is ) , this would be perfectly compatible with an environmental explanation : it could well be that people with low IQ are treated unfavourably by others and this unfavourable treatment makes them more likely to commit crime . |
| 11 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 12 | It could well be that Matadial was thoroughly discredited , even as the case ran , but with advance information her demolition could have been more clinically achieved , with perhaps a greater effect on the jury and with a better chance of involving Zaidie in the destruction of the Crown case on motive and malice . |
| 13 | It could well be that some of the summit surfaces of the Hercynian blocks are Eogene pediplains , while the weathering responsible for the formation of tors may have been tropical weathering of the same date . |
| 14 | In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely . |
| 15 | Nick Hornby ( ‘ Mine is the generation that was terrified of the Daleks and fell in love with Valerie Singleton ’ ) carried on the Sunday Times sniping last week : ‘ It could well be that my generation is about to burst into spectacular , awe-inspiring literary life ; perhaps this year we will be reading scores of novels as dazzling as London Fields or A History of the World in 10½ Chapters , all written by men and women born after Elvis ’ first number one . |
| 16 | It could well be that you have agoraphobia or some kind of depression . |
| 17 | If there were any genuine cultural universals it could well be that they are universal because they are " natural " , i.e. a part of our genetic endowment . |
| 18 | Whatever the process , it could well be that the crustal shortening in the continents produced by the early phases of the Hercynian orogeny , with its resultant lowering of sea-levels , produced the widespread regression of late Carboniferous times , when coal measure swamps spread from Texas to the Donetz . |
| 19 | It could well be that Sir Thomas 's death turned Vechey 's mind on to the path of self-destruction . ’ |
| 20 | In fact , it could well be that his knowledge of her return to Eastlake had brought about her present anxieties . |
| 21 | It could well be that it will take more than the measures that the Government have introduced to strip the glamour from smoking , notwithstanding the 115,000 smoking-related deaths per year in Britain alone . |
| 22 | It could well be that the right hon. Member for Chingford and others are so offended by the success of those organisations and the ability of those individuals that they wish to curtail the right of people to seek that independent legal advice . |
| 23 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 24 | If we do n't grant a , what 's going there now , it could well be that by default , the building will revert to the county council , and it would be lost to the people of Ottery . |
| 25 | It could well be that have got other ideas . |