Example sentences of "well have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If her marriage had been happy she might well have been philosophical about the new baby , ’ her lawyer said . |
| 2 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 3 | She may well have been right about this . |
| 4 | She may well have been right . |
| 5 | He may well have been right . |
| 6 | This time spent together , and the opportunity to give Anna her undivided attention , could well have been decisive . |
| 7 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 8 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 9 | Bangor handed them another three on a plate and the Seasiders may well have been leg-weary after their exertions in Cyprus on Wednesday . |
| 10 | And he may well have been correct in thinking that , in France at any rate , such men were less likely to take advantage of women . |
| 11 | Pietro Miletti gave a short laugh that sounded unpleasantly arrogant and mocking , although it might equally well have been nervous in origin . |
| 12 | Dr Robert Eisenman , whom we cited earlier , believes there may well have been close links between Simeon 's family and the descendants of Jesus 's — if , indeed , they were not one and the same . |
| 13 | They did not see that the rampant nationalism that had brought Presidents Tudjman and Milosevic to power would so fan the flames of separatism and so reawaken the enmities of 50 years or more , that the compromise that might well have been possible earlier this year and which the European Foreign Ministers have since tried to impose has now become impossible . |
| 14 | Nicholas 's personal judgement may well have been crucial in blocking negotiations with the Kadets in the fluid situation that prevailed in the first half of 1906 . |
| 15 | Looking back there was no sibling rivalry problem and in our case ‘ prevention may well have been better than cure ’ . ’ |
| 16 | Howard might well have been impressed by the importance given to classification by TDC , despite the fact that it seems to be unfashionable in western European administrations . |
| 17 | However , when the play was written ( in 1601 ) Shakespeare may well have been familiar with the Latin or Greek version , but his audience in the main would not . |
| 18 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 19 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 20 | In the history of English parliaments it was a decisive encounter , although in terms of Sussex where commoners rather than knights or lords died it may well have been one of the familiar disasters around which ordinary life had to continue . |
| 21 | The Texas prison system may well have been one of the fastest expanding systems in recent history . |
| 22 | This dilemma may well have been one of the factors that precipitated his eventual madness , which began in 1802 : that possibility adequately suggests the existential seriousness of the Greek ideal for the German writers under its spell . |
| 23 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
| 24 | There may well have been other such incidents . |
| 25 | However , there may well have been other pressures on working class men as individuals , causing them to oppose the work of their wives . |
| 26 | Some confusion exists as to the original scratchplate , and there may well have been two variations . |
| 27 | Latimer and Neville were probably the dominant figures at court between 1369 and 1376 , and their influence over the king may well have been greater than that of John of Gaunt and his brothers . |
| 28 | It might well have been necessary to invent Yeo Davis if they had n't already existed . |
| 29 | He asked me to call again and this invitation may well have been genuine ; my acceptance was not . |
| 30 | Doubtless the Court was influenced by the fact that though the risk to employees may well have been minimal ( and two accidents in two years would suggest that that was not so ) the consequences of any such risk materialising were potentially serious and , indeed , in one instance had been fatal . |