Example sentences of "well have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Royal Navy 's frigates in the south Atlantic carried their own Exocets ( Britain is the biggest customer for the missile ) , which they might well have fired against Argentinian ships in an all-out naval war . |
| 2 | A Kinnock government in present conditions of economic crisis might well have done in Labour for good and all . |
| 3 | He was elected MP for Malmesbury in 1529 , and again in 1547 , and may well have served in intervening Parliaments for which the names of the members for Malmesbury are unknown . |
| 4 | The only problem is that the ground now might well have gone against this horse . |
| 5 | Unemployment may well have fallen since 1987 , but it has increased a great deal in the past year . |
| 6 | Cnut may well have profited from this sort of process , for the sources are scanty and their silence on the matter of simony is not enough to rule it out . |
| 7 | Detective Inspector Gerry Wright says although she had heart disease she may well have lived for several years , if it had n't been for the sudden shock of finding two men in her house . |
| 8 | Furthermore , even before Posidonius , the Druids may well have heard about Greek doctrines of immortality either from oral tradition in Massalia or by honest purchase of Greek books . |
| 9 | He may well have heard in some reach of his mind an as yet uncreated harmony , as a composer hears the music that he is about to translate into sound . |
| 10 | Conditions late in Æthelred 's reign could well have resulted in such a movement , for apart from the effects of famine and enemy harrying , those landowners with dependent peasantry may often have expected them to shoulder much of the tax burden , and that burden had been particularly heavy between 1011 and 1014 . |
| 11 | A complete block on foreign investment might well have resulted in less investment overall ; and the fact that so much was financed by overseas borrowing is of particular significance here . |
| 12 | The prime motive behind Cnut 's desire for the union was almost certainly to prevent her sons gaining Norman military assistance , and it may well have occurred in mid-1017 because the preceding months were occupied by negotiations with her brother Richard . |
| 13 | After the given date , the same change may well have diffused to other dialects that were not affected at first , and Labov 's well-known work ( for example , 1980 ) on short /a/ in the northern United States suggests that this EModE change is still in progress there today . |
| 14 | It is not easy to distinguish between the first and the second categories : Reynolds could well have belonged to both . |
| 15 | Large well-run estates confiscated by Paulus could well have passed into imperial hands and continued to be managed for profit , but it depends on whether the Emperor needed capital more than income . |
| 16 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 17 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 18 | The sociologists of knowledge … may well have come to erroneous conclusions ; but they have at least attempted in some measure , to solve the philosophical problem that results from the existence of competitive social-world [ theoretical ] systems . |
| 19 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 20 | The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country . |
| 21 | The revolutionaries might as well have come from another planet for all the relevance their schemes had to the real concerns of the peasantry . |
| 22 | And Juan — as Alejandro ( who as one who lived in a glass house and was in no position to hurl polo balls ) pointed out — might well have died of sexual excess . |
| 23 | In this event Philip might well have approved of any plan which would make proper provision for his half-sister and her husband , whether it was Aquitaine or even something more . |
| 24 | Gregory may well have known of these claims , and have thought of them as pagan . |
| 25 | There were periods , notably 1720 – 40 and 1760 – 1770 , when home consumption increased more quickly than exports , but as Professor Cole has pointed out , exports over the century as a whole could well have accounted for 40 per cent of the increase in industrial output . |