Example sentences of "may well [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may well be all sorts of contributory factors which need stating but these ought to come after the full apology . |
| 2 | There may well be all sorts of deviations and fluctuations here ; the whole system expands and becomes complicated , develops and is continuously in motion and oscillating but , taken as a whole , it is in a state of equilibrium . |
| 3 | The opium-taking may well be all that is needed to explain this . |
| 4 | Video playback may well be all that is required . |
| 5 | There may well be such an underlying theory . |
| 6 | There may well be such an order in the case of litigants in person . |
| 7 | It may well be that risk-taking companies are managed by risk-taking individuals with powerful personalities . |
| 8 | Means , in most of the reported cases , the naked penis although it may well be that exposure of the vagina would be within the mischief the offence is trying to prevent . |
| 9 | As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . |
| 10 | It may well be that , as a result of such descriptions , the researcher , or other people , develop theories about why the people concerned behave as they do . |
| 11 | It may well be that , for the Church historian of the middle of the twenty-first century , the tensions of the period of John Paul II through which we are now passing will themselves appear as but an interlude in the process initiated by the Council , and ending in a form of Catholicism still unimaginable today . |
| 12 | But it may well be that , like Whistler , Mr Rocke did not make notes but simply took a steady look and remembered . |
| 13 | It may well be that , in varieties that have supra-local functions , a high degree of complexity ( at any level ) is indeed dysfunctional . |
| 14 | ‘ It may well be that … the only absolutely sure way of ensuring that a guarantee or charge from a third party is valid is to insist on that party being independently advised . |
| 15 | In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power . |
| 16 | Similarly , in the case of a local authority , formal authority to make decisions will rest with the full council ; but in reality it may well be that power is in the hands of a few councillors and chief officers such that the locus of decision making may be far removed from the full council meeting . |
| 17 | Indeed it may well be that power is not linked to the position of an individual within the formal structure of an organisation at all . |
| 18 | It may well be that , throughout our careers we are motivated by the desire to satisfy different needs . |
| 19 | But it may well be that , to a degree that he would never have admitted , de Gaulle the politician had shared in the optimistic illusions of the liberation . |
| 20 | It may well be that weighting needs to be applied to er er the various criteria and I think that elected members are the appropriate starting point for er applying er er applying that weighting . |
| 21 | It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day . |
| 22 | There may well be many entrance holes , many more bolt-holes and every outward sign of rabbit occupation in numbers . |
| 23 | Personal cheques drawn on overseas banks are generally difficult to negotiate in the UK and , even if accepted , it may well be many weeks before the funds can be drawn . |
| 24 | There may well be more work for those staff currently employed in the ‘ support ’ role in schools . |
| 25 | The cost of the low-end word processor and desktop publishing program combined may well be more than the cost of a good word processor that can do many of the same functions . |
| 26 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 27 | Ultimately it should be possible to cease activities within the office on Poll Tax matters and leave the Sheriff Officers to collect monies due , although this may well be several years off . |
| 28 | Indeed , there may well be several external views , perhaps as much as one per application or user that accesses the database . |
| 29 | And a trained singing voice is undoubtedly a valued asset — there may well be some competition for a place on singing tutorials . |
| 30 | Before trying to answer this question , it is worth noting that there may well be some overlap , and this should not cause sociologists too much concern . |