Example sentences of "[modal v] well [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might well view a particular action as " clearly disreputable " . |
| 2 | If an index were based on BSG Fine Art 's retail sales , it might well show a steady rise . |
| 3 | Having a nosy reporter around might well make a difference . |
| 4 | Port Glasgow and Leith , the main centres of trade , were the ports with the best-paid officers , but equally , they would also require the greatest amount of work from the incumbents , who would be much more under the eye of the supervisory staff based at Edinburgh , which might well make a less well-paid , but remote , port more attractive to the more independent officers . |
| 5 | Looked as though she might well make a good Vicar 's wife . ’ |
| 6 | If you are slow in your reactions you might be more than 5° off your original QDM ( as above ) by the time you have decided what to do , so the turn to offset the RC 10° might well involve a turn of more than the 15° above . |
| 7 | Looking back from the eclectic seventies , the essentially post-sixties seventies , these youngsters of the fifties might well appear a deeply conventional , timid , duffle-jacketed wasp-waisted narrow-based crew , but to Alix , newly emerging from the all-too-personal matrix or patrix of The Heights , they had seemed richly various . |
| 8 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 9 | This will be a more flexible list because prices tend to creep upwards ( except when you want to sell anything ) and your tastes and finances might well change a little or a lot along the way |
| 10 | In a declining market one might well expect a business that had earlier established a dominant share position to be able to trade on this position in the short run and increase prices and profits , because rivals are unlikely to come into the market or compete strongly for market share . |
| 11 | From such a general classification , discussed in detail below , two very general conclusions can be shown to emerge : that several categories of small towns saw the provision of some form of internal street network to meet the needs of their inhabitants and that the existence of such a system , coupled with other morphological and functional indicators , might well reflect a higher degree of internal organization and urban complexity . |
| 12 | If the fragmentary evidence from Baldock is comparable , both might well represent a reshaping of an existing layout as part of a general Roman initiative or of native imitation of contemporary development in nearby cities . |
| 13 | ‘ They might well send a priest to you , ’ he said to his own image , and reached for the clean shirt Langholme had laid ready for him . |
| 14 | Bollinger own just such a patch of phylloxera-free vines in Aÿ ; whereas its high walls might well repel a small army , it remains a mystery why the little bug has not simply walked in under the gate . |
| 15 | It is a work which might well shed a tender light on the novella ‘ Goodbye , Columbus ’ . |
| 16 | In time a system with the market 's penalties as well as freedoms might well breed a different managerial prototype . |
| 17 | Watch the birds as they fly above your heads and , who knows , you might well spy a tiny creature riding high on the back of a swallow or a raven . |
| 18 | In respect of the US dollar this might well require a general depreciation as well as much greater depreciation against the Deutschmark and the yen . |
| 19 | Thus you might well commence a let-down miles away from the NDB , thinking that you had passed overhead . |
| 20 | And our headquarters have have indicated to us that that might well include a refinement of the criteria which are presently in P P G three . |
| 21 | ACAS has a network of regional offices which might well prove a valuable source of information . |
| 22 | Even so , a course of Edwardian dinners might well prove a sore trial to-day . |
| 23 | A mixture of consultation and internal management control might well prove a better starting point . |
| 24 | Seton and Ramsay were in favour , especially as this might well have a delaying effect on invasion moves . |
| 25 | The villain , if there is a villain , might well have a numbered account in outer Mongolia . |
| 26 | When she glanced at him again he looked very grim and she wondered if she should have told Mitch that he might well have a lot of opportunity to photograph Spain — on foot as he walked back to Málaga . |
| 27 | Patients referred from family practitioners are likely to be younger and might well have a different incidence of disease causing anaemia . |
| 28 | As noted above , the Rome Treaty did not explicitly incorporate any regional dimension , but it did recognise that EC policies might well have a differential spatial impact . |
| 29 | At an average of 6d. per acre the fairly common assessment of 20s. might well indicate a more or less standard yardland of some 30 — 40 ( customary ) acres , depending on what buildings were included , if any . |
| 30 | Following the establishment of the union there might well emerge a tendency for money wage rates to converge between member nations given a degree of labour mobility . |