Example sentences of "well have been [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But as far as the Prince 's speech was concerned the couple might as well have been strangers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It could well have been shingles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |