Example sentences of "it [modal v] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well come to pass that … legislation could be enacted that will offend the objective moral law . |
| 2 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 3 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 4 | I want to discuss this with my superiors , but I think it 's only fair for me to say that it may well be difficult for us to keep you here . ’ |
| 5 | For example , if the glider is too low to land conventionally in the normal landing area directly into the wind , it may well be possible to land across wind and behind the normal launching point , so that the low turn can be completed safely . |
| 6 | Moreover , because it occurs unexpectedly it may well cause a temporary panic . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nowadays it may well be world history , deeply simplified . |
| 9 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 10 | It may well have contributed to the 1989 decision to introduce a policy of ‘ Power to the Routes ’ for the current decade . |
| 11 | After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style ? |
| 12 | It may well be there is nothing wrong with hops in this form except that I find that brewers who use them , such as Whitbread and Charles Wells , produce beers with a bitterness that is a shade too harsh for my liking . |
| 13 | But ‘ Hell ’ , the review of Binyon 's Inferno , is particularly important ; for it may well be one of the most careful and illuminating acts of criticism that Pound ever performed . |
| 14 | For such a beginning writer in such a situation , it may well turn out that a minor master like Landor is more fruitfully instructive than a major master like Milton or Keats : and if it does turn out so , one has a certain debt of honour that must be paid to the past master by whom one was liberated . |
| 15 | Certainly she could not compete on anything like equal terms with Hilda Doolittle , the poet H.D. who , having mythologised her relations with Pound in a roman à clef many years ago , did it all over again just before her death in End to Torment , a supposed ‘ memoir ’ which people seem disposed to take literally , though in its scattiness it may well be as fictionalised as the novel had been . |
| 16 | If Dedham Hall is fully booked — and it may well be — try the best bed-and-breakfast we have ever found , just a few miles away at the Old Vicarage , Higham , near Colchester . |
| 17 | It may well have been rooted in a repressed homosexuality according to the psychoanalytic model . |
| 18 | It may well be the case that an egregious idiocy has formed the basis of a political tradition — examples of this are plentiful — but ridiculing an historical phenomenon does not explain it . |
| 19 | One should be aware that it may well have played an equally significant role in saving the Conservative Party from disintegration . |
| 20 | It may well become obvious that more can be gained from tiny hooks and tiny fish than using more orthodox tackle and regarding undersize fish as as nuisance . |
| 21 | In Bucharest as in Pyongyang , it may well be that severe repression can in the first instance only be challenged by a well-aimed bullet . |
| 22 | In Bucharest as in Pyongyang , it may well be that severe repression can in the first instance only be challenged by a well-aimed bullet . |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher was apparently informed of the French decision during the Strasbourg session on monetary union last weekend and it may well have encouraged her to believe that Britain 's European partners are now ready to take the difficult decisions which are a prelude to monetary union . |
| 24 | 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 ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It may well prove to be an impossible task . |
| 27 | For this purpose , the work done by the spectrographs , which are less affected by the mirror than are the cameras , is not particularly useful , though it may well provide the greatest scientific interest for some time to come . |
| 28 | In a decade 's time , it may well show rock videos — and perhaps ‘ Miss Saigon ’ . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | It may well be argued that the government was able to defeat the General Strike by its propaganda campaigns , the arrest of Communist activists , the use of volunteers and by sheer patience , in allowing the General Council 's Negotiating Committee to spend several futile days negotiating the Samuel Memorandum in the hope that it would provide a basis for a settlement . |