Example sentences of "well have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tocqueville 's Democracy in America is , as has been noted , essentially a study of American society , and one commentator has even suggested that it might better have been called Equality in America . |
| 2 | He took the view that the matters raised by the counterclaim would better have been raised by judicial review . |
| 3 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 4 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 5 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |
| 6 | The desire to make arrangements covertly could well have been affected by a double pressure . |
| 7 | However , I never tried to get professional help , and that may well have been a mistake . |
| 8 | She might as well have been eating spam . |
| 9 | When the officer said , ‘ You will be charged with sedition , over and above the mobbing , but in certain circumstances that might not be pressed , ’ Cameron distressed himself by making a small , indefinite sound which could well have been taken for agreement . |
| 10 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 11 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 12 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 13 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 14 | But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity . |
| 15 | It could equally well have been a photocopy supplied by the employee . |
| 16 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 17 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 18 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , he appeared to suggest Mrs Thatcher ‘ may well have been ’ open to the charge of stifling dissent in the past . |
| 20 | It may well have been rooted in a repressed homosexuality according to the psychoanalytic model . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde . |
| 23 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 24 | She looked so competent and self-assured , so hard , so distant from his own thought and feeling that she might just as well have been a stranger , passing by without a glance in the street . |
| 25 | The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans . |
| 26 | It merely detects residues of drugs ingested as much as weeks in the past , when the worker may well have been off-duty or on holiday . |
| 27 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 28 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 29 | Ceausescu 's visit this week to Iran may well have been in connection with a possible sale of arms . |
| 30 | It might well have been necessary to invent Yeo Davis if they had n't already existed . |