Example sentences of "may well [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
| 2 | It may well have been with mixed feelings that Hamilton gave up Painshill and its burdens after some thirty-five years . |
| 3 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 4 | This may well have been of benefit to individuals , but school board members were very conscious of their role as representatives of parents and the local community . |
| 5 | Since aerial photography of cropmarks has now shown that such sites are widespread , particularly beneath a number of later hillforts and in numerous river valleys , most parts of southern Britain may well have been within the territory of , and exploited by , one or other of these sites in Neolithic times . |
| 6 | Ceausescu 's visit this week to Iran may well have been in connection with a possible sale of arms . |
| 7 | Marling already occupied Pitts Mill and may well have been in Freames as well . |
| 8 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |
| 9 | You could even have a personalised château holiday , enjoying the hospitality of a family who may well have been in residence for generations . |
| 10 | Not simply was he mentioned , as men may well have been in the prayers of intercession , but he was actively made present as lord of the situation . |
| 11 | This will usually be someone who has relatively little experience as an account executive ( but may well have been in the agency for some time , as a progress controller or planner , for example ) . |
| 12 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 13 | It is worth noting that the Cuban revolution avoided a similar fate by incorporation of the Communists ; the Bolivian experience may well have been in Castro 's mind when he was assessing the means by which he could sustain his own revolution . |
| 14 | The presence of Cézanne is felt strongly behind both Three Women and Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table , and the borrowed Braque may well have been in his studio when he painted them . |
| 15 | They may well have been in the right : the tendency of some Merovingians to take and discard wives at will , that is to practise serial monogamy , meant that there was no clearly defined family tree . |
| 16 | The island and its neighbour Warbah have been claimed by Iraq in the past and may well have been among Iraq 's objectives in mounting the invasion a year earlier , although there was no strong evidence of this at the time . |