Example sentences of "well be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the best account of a picture may well be a sonnet or an elegy … as for criticism properly so-called … |
| 2 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 3 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 4 | Such a reading could well be found to have attributed too much to a recoil , a respite , a provisional position . |
| 5 | By these standards , Levi would appear to be an imperfect Jew , and this could well be an opinion that underlies the talk about his later books being not nearly as good as his earlier ones . |
| 6 | It could well be asked if his is an Orthodox fiction . |
| 7 | The Queen will certainly need a glossary , but even then she may well be uncertain as to just how much Kelman likes his unlikely lad . |
| 8 | And yet Stewart 's small wandering world could well be thought the richer of the two environments . |
| 9 | Drama training is under constant review through the accreditation system , so that standards are maintained and new developments assessed , and schools which may not be in the accredited list today may well be there soon . |
| 10 | You may well be asked to sing something unaccompanied , or do a short improvisation and you may well be asked to perform one of the speeches in a different way . |
| 11 | You may well be asked to sing something unaccompanied , or do a short improvisation and you may well be asked to perform one of the speeches in a different way . |
| 12 | If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one . |
| 13 | And a trained singing voice is undoubtedly a valued asset — there may well be some competition for a place on singing tutorials . |
| 14 | You will probably , therefore , end up with a selection of varying pictures which could well be useful . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 21 | Anthropology has been prominent in showing how the marginal in any society tends to pose problems for state institutions and governments ; and the insider must anticipate that his conclusions might well be |
| 22 | Alternative readings or critical analysis of this entrenched reverence for a rule of law ( which at times may well be out of step with a wider interpretation of ambiguous social behaviour ) smacks of subversion simply because it denies the primacy of the institutional framework . |
| 23 | Hopefully this will allow the ethnography to extend on the interpretive analysis which Kuper ( 1973 ) termed ‘ neostructural ’ and which has since combined aspects of a feminist , semantic , and symbolic framework to generate what may well be a short-lived disciplinary ‘ ism ’ of ‘ post-modern ’ anthropology ( Young 1989 ) . |
| 24 | one solution … is to use subjectivity rather than try to push it aside … and [ so ] it might well be included in analyses and used consciously as a research tool . |
| 25 | I now see that between 1958 and 1977 I was involved in what might well be described as a social drama of movement , often crossing boundaries into very marginal areas of policing , where the institutional ideal of ordered definition fails simply because the ‘ use of power and exercise of authority are based in ambiguity and particular interpretations of [ what is often ] poorly framed legislation ’ ( Burton 1980 ) . |
| 26 | The private delicts of one group may well be public crimes in another society , or acceptable social behaviour in a third , especially when the abhorrence of certain social behaviour wanes over time . |
| 27 | Although the opposing team has no chance of winning , any attempt to withdraw your remaining team-member(s) may well be rewarded by disqualification of the entire team for bad sportsmanship . |
| 28 | Otherwise , if the team does n't show up after one or two public announcements , they may well be disbarred . |
| 29 | We might as well be praying ! ’ |
| 30 | If they kept to themselves , the whole northern end of the area might as well be written off . |