Example sentences of "well have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is clearly a newly assertive policy being followed in the White House , and the early exuberance of US politicians when the invasion seemed to be going well has provoked fears that President Bush might be tempted to apply military solutions to Nicaragua and to the war on drugs . |
| 2 | We were telling you earlier that Blackburn were one up over Shrewsbury Town , Mike the goal scorer after six , well has equalized immediately for Shrewsbury after twenty , Shrewsbury Town one , Blackburn Rovers one . |
| 3 | Initially Kidd had intended returning Down Under , but an attractive offer from Division Two side Sundays Well has prompted a change of heart . |
| 4 | Well has got to have something to do has n't he ? to justify his job because I mean he 's talked to in the past , he 's talked about everything . |
| 5 | In Family Structure in Nineteenth Century Lancashire ( 1971 ) Michael Anderson has shown that far from weakening kinship ties the Industrial Revolution may well have strengthened them . |
| 6 | The original meaning of the word ‘ merry ’ is fitting and appropriate — for example a judge might well have proclaimed : ‘ T is merry that he hangs for murder . ’ |
| 7 | Benson was a large , calm man in his early sixties , grey of hair , cherubic and cheerful of countenance , and wearing a sports jacket , flannels and polo jersey , all of varying shades of grey and all so lived in , comfortable and crumpled that he could well have inherited them from his grandfather . |
| 8 | The drive — perhaps that was what he ought to call it ? — which Gemma may well have inherited in abundance . |
| 9 | I might as well have grown asparagus in the time . ’ ’ |
| 10 | If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade . |
| 11 | Most of the Royal Navy 's frigates in the south Atlantic carried their own Exocets ( Britain is the biggest customer for the missile ) , which they might well have fired against Argentinian ships in an all-out naval war . |
| 12 | I suspect that Pound never went further into Aubeterre than this inn , and one needs to have walked in his footsteps from Chalais to Aubeterre to see how he could well have done this , skirting the hill , stopping for perhaps a mid-day meal in the inn , and then pushing on at once for La Tour Blanche . |
| 13 | And so on to the shop — ‘ hey … they 're selling stuff here ! ’ — and the cafe , the Casablanca Club , where a second voice murmurs , as it may well have done in arts centre days but certainly wo n't when the family visitor attraction becomes reality , ‘ a cup of coffee ? … pastry ? … hashish ? ’ |
| 14 | Unlike me , he at once felt at home in that charged , aggressive , almost militaristic atmosphere , joined heartily in the drinking and singing , and soon had all the students on his side , which was fortunate for me , because el Americano 's prestige deflected a terrible submerged violence and hatred that might well have done me harm . |
| 15 | She might well have done so ; it was , after all , a Catholic Scotland which was to be so closely allied with France . |
| 16 | A Kinnock government in present conditions of economic crisis might well have done in Labour for good and all . |
| 17 | He felt suddenly angry with Maud , who was standing stock still , in the dark , not moving a finger to help him , not urging , as she with her emotional advantage might well have done , further exploration of hidden treasures or pathetic dead caskets . |
| 18 | Friday 3 April Major , asked if recovery has already begun , replies ‘ It may well have done . |
| 19 | The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force . |
| 20 | Always supposing their parents had kept the postcards , which , considering their rarity value , they might well have done . |
| 21 | if the rail fare 's gone up as I expect it may well have done . |
| 22 | Mary 's marriage to Henry had certainly taken place by February 1381 , and Thomas might well have done what he could to prevent her marrying , but Froissart casts Thomas as a villain in his account of English politics in Richard II 's reign , and not every detail in the story should necessarily be accepted at face value . |
| 23 | If ( as he may well have done ) he thought that he was the Messiah , then his choosing of the twelve would seem to have been a symbolic action , through which he should indicate to people who he was . |
| 24 | She did n't actually say , ‘ Please hurry up , oh please hurry up , ’ but she might just as well have done : her mouth twitched as if she were muttering it inwardly , her eyes kept darting to the clock on the mantelpiece and there were red , nervous spots on her cheeks . |
| 25 | The position of women has changed in a number of ways , such that a wife does not have to put up with an unsatisfactory marriage in the way that her mother might well have done . |
| 26 | Either the whole matter could have been left to disappear in limbo , as it might well have done , or counsel and the judge could have discussed how any harm done could be cured in the summing up . |
| 27 | Her whole body relaxed when Beth told her with a measure of amusement , ‘ No , Peggy , but I might well have done if you had n't come in when you did . ’ |
| 28 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 29 | ‘ They might just as well have done , ’ she said despairingly . |
| 30 | The prosecution must prove beyond all reasonable doubt that she did not consent and the defence will be irresistibly tempted to raise that doubt by suggesting that she is the type of woman who might well have done . |