Example sentences of "well have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may well have been of benefit to individuals , but school board members were very conscious of their role as representatives of parents and the local community . |
| 2 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 3 | It may well have been with mixed feelings that Hamilton gave up Painshill and its burdens after some thirty-five years . |
| 4 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
| 5 | Once the ability to create symbolic signals and rearrange them was in place , individuals that accomplished this more effectively might well have been at an advantage over those who did it less effectively in terms of all the benefits that come from co-operation . |
| 6 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 7 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 8 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 9 | MARK ROE might well have been behind the TV cameras at the GA European Open , but at the Lancome Trophy he was back in his rightful place — on our screens . |
| 10 | The suspect in Jones , reported at [ 1984 ] Crim.LR. 357 and decided before PACE came into force , might well have been within the class of persons now entitled to this special protection . |
| 11 | Since aerial photography of cropmarks has now shown that such sites are widespread , particularly beneath a number of later hillforts and in numerous river valleys , most parts of southern Britain may well have been within the territory of , and exploited by , one or other of these sites in Neolithic times . |
| 12 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 13 | Ceausescu 's visit this week to Iran may well have been in connection with a possible sale of arms . |
| 14 | Marling already occupied Pitts Mill and may well have been in Freames as well . |
| 15 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |
| 16 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 17 | You could even have a personalised château holiday , enjoying the hospitality of a family who may well have been in residence for generations . |
| 18 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 19 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 20 | Not simply was he mentioned , as men may well have been in the prayers of intercession , but he was actively made present as lord of the situation . |
| 21 | There are no screen credits at the beginnings of dreams to tell you what sort of film you are going to see , but there might as well have been in these nightmares , because the tenor , horror or guilt is excruciatingly present before the first scenes have even been played . |
| 22 | This will usually be someone who has relatively little experience as an account executive ( but may well have been in the agency for some time , as a progress controller or planner , for example ) . |
| 23 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 24 | It is worth noting that the Cuban revolution avoided a similar fate by incorporation of the Communists ; the Bolivian experience may well have been in Castro 's mind when he was assessing the means by which he could sustain his own revolution . |
| 25 | The presence of Cézanne is felt strongly behind both Three Women and Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table , and the borrowed Braque may well have been in his studio when he painted them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It might well have been in the mind of the Cloud-author when he appealed to his disciple as a weary wretch , sleeping in sloth , and deaf to the calling of the disturbingly dynamic love of God . |
| 28 | The island and its neighbour Warbah have been claimed by Iraq in the past and may well have been among Iraq 's objectives in mounting the invasion a year earlier , although there was no strong evidence of this at the time . |
| 29 | Do you not think that up to now Middle Eastern countries and some other nations and people as well have been of the super powers in their giant struggle against each other , but now the United States may be able to take er , if you like a more mature and more relaxed attitude . |
| 30 | Deliberately choosing to marry in an area full of paupers — Benjamin might just have well have been in Frome ! |