Example sentences of "well have [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 2 | So , in their capacity as workers in those factories they were not Co-operators at all , though they may very well have been members of consumers , co-operative societies owning an interest in those factories . |
| 3 | Fitzgerald was fascinated by the director type and in his story ‘ Mightier than the sword ’ he offered a portrait of a man who could well have been King Vidor : |
| 4 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 5 | She suggests that the offending Geordie dialect ‘ might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield ’ - could it not also have been from Norfolk , Suffolk or Dorset ? |
| 6 | But as far as the Prince 's speech was concerned the couple might as well have been strangers . |
| 7 | There may well have been others on other parts of the island , but unfortunately the heavy curtain of dust and fumes being carried by the wind prevented him getting right round . |
| 8 | Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion . |
| 9 | I might just as well have been Judd . ’ |
| 10 | It could well have been shingles . |
| 11 | The general assumption of Gratian and his collaborators ( ironically they may well have been monks working with him in the Camaldolese monastery in Bologna and not the new secular law clerks of the future ) was that the contradictions in the early canon law were only superficial or apparent . |
| 12 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 13 | Of course , there may well have been conjecture when so many people invaded Maternity when the infant was delivered , but that was something you permitted . ’ |
| 14 | Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) and Intolerance ( 1916 ) may well have been masterpieces but they were also very obviously controversial and guaranteed to shock sections of the great audience . |
| 15 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 16 | It might well have been Piladu 's son . |
| 17 | It can also be argued that there are many references in the Old Testament to conditions that may well have been syphilis . |
| 18 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 19 | The two were just muscle , but the third man could well have been Michael Lee , Katherine Lundy 's notorious henchmen . |
| 20 | The champions might equally well have been Epicurus and Lucretius ranged against St Paul . |
| 21 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
| 22 | I heard my name being called , it may well have been Louis erm come forward and I heard it , I understood it to be P C voice . |
| 23 | Had Norwich not defeated Notts County in the fifth round that afternoon , it could well have been Mr Stringer 's first and last address to the nation 's footballing public . |
| 24 | Indeed the subject matter of many of Mercer 's plays — which was often Mercer — could just as well have been Goodwin . |
| 25 | It might equally well have been annoyance — John Parsons the macho male being quietly baited by the nonentity by the fireside . |
| 26 | And among that crowd , while she waited , might well have been Chrissie . |
| 27 | But there may well have been situations in which the boot was on the other foot ; and in the centuries before the tenth , the centuries in which slavery was steadily declining , there is no reason to suppose that land was scarce , or that the landlords normally had the whip-hand . |
| 28 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |
| 29 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |
| 30 | On the other hand , one source of satisfaction to the USSR , as one of the world 's major gold producers , may well have been news released in September 1980 that New York gold prices had soared on reports that war had broken out . |