Example sentences of "well be [det] " in BNC.

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1 It had better be that and not him having another of his scenes .
2 Only plaice was familiar to him , so he supposed it had better be that .
3 That man could well be former Southampton boss Chris Nicholl , who was watching from the stands .
4 It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day .
5 There may well be many entrance holes , many more bolt-holes and every outward sign of rabbit occupation in numbers .
6 Personal cheques drawn on overseas banks are generally difficult to negotiate in the UK and , even if accepted , it may well be many weeks before the funds can be drawn .
7 There may well be such an underlying theory .
8 There may well be such an order in the case of litigants in person .
9 ‘ The market has to move up sharply one of these years , and 1993 could well be that year . ’
10 It may well be that risk-taking companies are managed by risk-taking individuals with powerful personalities .
11 Means , in most of the reported cases , the naked penis although it may well be that exposure of the vagina would be within the mischief the offence is trying to prevent .
12 As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back .
13 It may well be that , as a result of such descriptions , the researcher , or other people , develop theories about why the people concerned behave as they do .
14 It may well be that , for the Church historian of the middle of the twenty-first century , the tensions of the period of John Paul II through which we are now passing will themselves appear as but an interlude in the process initiated by the Council , and ending in a form of Catholicism still unimaginable today .
15 But it may well be that , like Whistler , Mr Rocke did not make notes but simply took a steady look and remembered .
16 It may well be that , in varieties that have supra-local functions , a high degree of complexity ( at any level ) is indeed dysfunctional .
17 ‘ It may well be that … the only absolutely sure way of ensuring that a guarantee or charge from a third party is valid is to insist on that party being independently advised .
18 In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power .
19 It could well be that for some musical purposes the above result may contain too great an element of consonance in the form of triads .
20 Similarly , in the case of a local authority , formal authority to make decisions will rest with the full council ; but in reality it may well be that power is in the hands of a few councillors and chief officers such that the locus of decision making may be far removed from the full council meeting .
21 Indeed it may well be that power is not linked to the position of an individual within the formal structure of an organisation at all .
22 It may well be that , throughout our careers we are motivated by the desire to satisfy different needs .
23 One could perhaps likewise argue that the joining of the office of muderris of Suleyman 's medrese in Damascus with the muftilik in this case the muftilik certainly predated the medrese was an attempt to strengthen the position of the Hanafi mufti , or , alternatively , an attempt to " Ottomanize " the muftilik , since with the foundation of the medrese the joint post passed at least temporarily from the hands of local scholars into those of Ottoman scholars ; but it may equally well be that Suleyman was doing no more than following established custom in assigning the muderrislik to the mufti .
24 But it may well be that , to a degree that he would never have admitted , de Gaulle the politician had shared in the optimistic illusions of the liberation .
25 It may well be that weighting needs to be applied to er er the various criteria and I think that elected members are the appropriate starting point for er applying er er applying that weighting .
26 I 'm conscious of the fact obviously that individual departments are taking them on board , but I think we , it is important that we actually do have a consistent approach , and it might well be that budget review at some future meeting might want to consider the monitoring of progress in order to satisfy the district auditor in future events .
27 Yes , it could well be that . ’
28 There may well be all sorts of contributory factors which need stating but these ought to come after the full apology .
29 There may well be all sorts of deviations and fluctuations here ; the whole system expands and becomes complicated , develops and is continuously in motion and oscillating but , taken as a whole , it is in a state of equilibrium .
30 There might well be all kinds of exotic drugs as yet undiscovered and uncontrolled .
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