Example sentences of "may well [verb] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the outset , as in 1854 , it may well have been that Napoleon hoped to coerce Austria into negotiating a settlement by underlining her isolation in Europe , and thus avoiding an armed conflict . |
| 2 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 3 | One of the reasons why Constanze did not really come into her own until after Mozart 's death may well have been that she spent much of her married life in various debilitating stages of pregnancy , bearing six children ( of whom only two survived ) . |
| 4 | So that the split may well have been that er he was gon na to do a lot more work than perhaps the er civil engineering design group . |
| 5 | If your wife is unhappy , now it may well have been that a better policy could have been put on the vehicle . |
| 6 | One particular exception which may well apply is that contained in sections 8 of the Factors Act and 24 of the Sale of Goods Act . |