Example sentences of "might well " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a work which might well shed a tender light on the novella ‘ Goodbye , Columbus ’ . |
| 2 | You might well enjoy Beaumont and Fletcher 's rumbustious The Knight of the Burning Pestle — The Maid 's Tragedy is a good choice , too . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | To coin another military metaphor , he must ‘ soldier on ’ knowing that all of this activity might well smack of sedition . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | This is a good thing because , even if you could , further impacts might well drive them inwards , skewering your lungs . |
| 8 | By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom . |
| 9 | It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer . |
| 10 | Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder . |
| 11 | A design engineer might well require an appreciation of transmission line theory to ensure that the two connect together without data corruption . |
| 12 | All this might well be accomplished in the comparatively open-ended context of adult or continuing education , which is not dominated by the teleology of the examination system . |
| 13 | Such a degree course would not suit everyone , but it might well be attractive to the late entrants and mature students who are increasingly common participants in higher education , particularly in the humanities , and who bring valuable experience of life and work to their study , but may have rather little formal preparation . |
| 14 | It might well appeal to poets or would-be poets , who , contrary to popular myths about inspiration , are usually keenly interested in the technical aspects of composition . |
| 15 | Under the ancien regime , the exchange might well have shut again after Tiananmen . |
| 16 | They recognise , however , that the women in their study were largely middle-class , who might well have sufficiently large zinc stores because they were well nourished . |
| 17 | It made no express reference to proceedings between a named representative of a class and a member of that class who might well have sharply different interests , as betweeen themselves , as to the substance of the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 18 | The small investor might well feel cheated by the City because it has failed to provide the services necessary to buy and sell shares . |
| 19 | However , there might well be other reasons for this . |
| 20 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Soft ’ judges are the opposite , and these might well be considered the ‘ stupid ’ ones . |
| 22 | But the bias towards defence and security ( which have historically been natural right-wing issues ) might well persist and offset Labour 's advantage as the incumbent government , unless the 1989 Year of Revolutions in Eastern Europe ushers in a new era of world peace and tranquillity . |
| 23 | These factors might well be seen as socially beneficial . |
| 24 | If you served at RAF Valley , Mona , Bodorgan , Llandrog , Penrhos , Hell 's Mouth , Llanbedr or Tywyn , or if you would like to know more of the aviation heritage of North Wales , you might well find Roy Sloan 's researches to be of special interest . |
| 25 | An eminent nonconformist might well have reservations about a now Anglo-Catholic son seeking holy orders in the Church of England . |
| 26 | If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago . |
| 27 | So , whereas in the psychoanalytic account , homophobia might well signal the precariousness and instability of identity , even of sexual difference itself , in the materialist socio-political account it typically signals the reverse , namely that sexual difference is being secured , homophobia being ‘ a mechanism for regulating the behaviour of the many by the specific oppression of a few ’ ( Sedgwick , Between Men , 88 ) . |
| 28 | Besides , a National Government might well involve abandoning the Tory principle of protection , and Baldwin , under pressure from the protectionists , was unwilling to form a government with free traders . |
| 29 | By Sunday 23 August , however , it was clear that agreement might well not be possible . |
| 30 | True , Dr Clarke might well reply , but the Treatise was an attempt to resolve theoretically an urgent political problem : the same could not plausibly be said of the General Theory . |