Example sentences of "well [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 2 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 3 | Hopefully the new home which you are now considering as a prospective purchase will be suitable for your needs in every way , but it may well be that a need for some renovation or refurbishment is indicated from the surveyor 's report or that you will wish to make improvements or alterations of your own . |
| 4 | So , despite his presentation of sceptical arguments against knowledge of the nature of things , Gassendi does , nevertheless , hint that ‘ it may well be that the basis for knowledge does exist ’ ; even though this will be ‘ a knowledge of experience and , I may say , of appearances ’ . |
| 5 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 6 | It could well be that an Australian will win for the first time . |
| 7 | It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even if the tentative identification of the advantages of specialist working for this client group were to be confirmed by more extensive data , it may well be that they could be offset by other features of a generic social work service to the area . |
| 11 | It may well be that it is the first of these , his work in children 's theatre , for which he will be most remembered , for he revolutionised the whole conception of what forms theatre for children might take . |
| 12 | Corn was shipped along the Stroudwater canal to Oil Mill , although it may well be that the last half mile or so of the Painswick Stream was once navigable . |
| 13 | It may well be that the smaller powers benefit first from the new defensive technologies . |
| 14 | It may well be that in some metropolitan areas Labour is suffering the kind of adverse voter reaction noted in the London boroughs , but the issue of the poll tax appears itself to have had very little substantive impact on the differences in electoral behaviour between authorities . |
| 15 | It may well be that a fairer test must await an examination of the poll tax over an entire electoral cycle . |
| 16 | But it might well be that an associatively activated X is simply not salient enough to produce effects of a measurable size . |
| 17 | For it may well be that in America , it is all part of what is considered good professional service that an employee provide entertaining banter . |
| 18 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 19 | It may well be that this reduction in severity of symptoms has brought the symptoms of NSU much closer to those of gonorrhoea and thereby exaggerated their importance . |
| 20 | It may well be that the main cross-talk between cells involves specifying position . |
| 21 | It could well be that there are many more signals operating between cells than is currently suspected . |
| 22 | With our new spirit of centralization , both as an interim in the matter of teachers ' pay and conditions , and in that of the curriculum , and the more general removal of powers from Local Authorities , it may well be that we are imperceptibly going down the French road . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It may well be that the rate will slip further with so many children failing to receive regular schooling . |
| 25 | It may well be that many local-authority accountants have no detailed working knowledge of school-based financial-management systems — to give them a very grand title for their current state of development . |
| 26 | It may well be that a particular piece of research needs to focus on selected people for information , and the information gained from them will be fitted together into a coherent and consistent pattern with virtually no percentages and significance tests at all . |
| 27 | It might well be that the researcher decided to start inside the home with individual activities , and lead on to collective ones . |
| 28 | ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 . |
| 29 | It may well be that the ‘ ideal-type ’ , far from being ideally typical , actually represents very abnormal and atypical political conditions . |
| 30 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |