Example sentences of "well have [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan Cohen would have been ‘ pledged ’ to another idea ; his ‘ blood ’ would have been consecrated ; he would have been ‘ grave ’ — though perhaps not ‘ strict ’ ; he would better have protected the fragile ceremony ; owning the importance of his proper role in it . |
| 2 | It may well have influenced the Spanish style in the United States and reflected the role of American imperialism in assimilating a Spanish cultural heritage . |
| 3 | Charlemagne sent gifts to him in late 795 or early 796 , but when Aethelred was killed in 796 and the Frankish envoys returned to Gaul with the news , Charles recalled his gifts , furious that the Northumbrians should murder their lord and holding them worse than pagans ; and this sudden loss of his Northumbrian protégé may well have endangered the delicate balance Charlemagne was seeking to maintain in England to circumscribe the power of Offa of Mercia ( see below , p. 176 ff . ) . |
| 4 | Suppressing the chuckle that might well have relayed the wrong message , Beth went to her . |
| 5 | However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) . |
| 6 | Furthermore , although Anne 's pregnancy may well have determined the exact timing of the Act of Appeals , the statute 's assertion that England was an empire was by then well-established government policy and echoed arguments formulated several years earlier . |
| 7 | This may well have saved the new Bulgaria . |
| 8 | Had Wapnick won yesterday , he might well have reached the last eight . |
| 9 | That might sound a little over the top , but the truth is that Quakers were streets ahead of Shrewsbury , and could well have surpassed the four goals which Hartlepool scored on their visit to Gay Meadow . |
| 10 | However , he may well have made the wrong choice for the right reason . |
| 11 | As already indicated , £20 — £39 embraced an assortment of yeomen , minor gentry , and lesser merchants and manufacturers who in towns , other than the biggest and most important , might well have formed the ruling elite . |
| 12 | And he might well have dismissed the Flemish court , with its prince who hedged and ditched , its chancellor who audited accounts , as mercenary . |
| 13 | A keen observer , or possibly any male over the age of twelve , might well have noticed the small hand-gun nestling in her cleavage . |
| 14 | Many people do not like working in an atmosphere of petty theft , and while they may not actually inform on their colleagues , they might well have taken the first opportunity to leave . |
| 15 | He has told us now what he might well have feared the dead man could tell us . |
| 16 | But I mean you 've , you 've actually passed up your good news by putting it so far down that the editor might well have read the first paragraph . |
| 17 | If Leland had gone there , he might well have described the eastern Weald as he did the Forest of Dean : ‘ more fruitful of wood and grass than corn ’ with ‘ many iron mines and forges ’ ; yet although he judged it self-sufficient in corn , Dean was very much poorer than the Weald . |
| 18 | The significance of these beliefs in creating a commonsense culture of taken-for-granted racism in Britain is difficult to underestimate , although widespread illiteracy may well have protected the subordinate classes from the level of immersion in racism experienced by the upper classes who were fed a growing diet of racist mythology in fiction , newspapers and missionary tracts ( Lorimer , 1978 ; Miles , 1982 , pp. 118–19 ) . |
| 19 | The deep economic depression , particularly of the late 1920s and the early 1930s , may well have discouraged the continued raising of large families and encouraged the greater use of birth-control techniques . |
| 20 | Had Moss joined the great Italian team , he could well have won the elusive World Championship . |
| 21 | Most NHS managers and professionals and members will heartily endorse this intention , although some of the latter may well have preferred the electoral route . |
| 22 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 23 | Indeed , it may well have had the indirect , beneficial effect of encouraging the search for better methods . |
| 24 | Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation . |
| 25 | Gloucester may well have shared the current anxieties about how the Woodvilles ' role would develop after the coronation . |
| 26 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |
| 27 | This was an undercover operation which had to be conducted with great speed as it quickly emerged that there was every chance that the Princess might well have left the royal circle by the proposed September publication date of the book . |