Example sentences of "well have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , yes , erm , he said they may well have done sufficient of them by Monday .
2 I suspect that Pound never went further into Aubeterre than this inn , and one needs to have walked in his footsteps from Chalais to Aubeterre to see how he could well have done this , skirting the hill , stopping for perhaps a mid-day meal in the inn , and then pushing on at once for La Tour Blanche .
3 Labov recognises that certain forms of standard English may well have developed such explicitness further than some dialect forms .
4 Lewis Carroll may well have seen these cheeses .
5 Time , these past 30 years , might just as well have stood still .
6 IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina .
7 IRISH trainer Michael Kauntze could well have saved next Saturday 's Coalite St Leger with his decision — or that of his owner — to supplement at a cost of £25,000 the dual Oaks runner-up Royal Ballerina .
8 A final point on this type of clause : if what is regarded as an initially reasonable figure is inserted in standard conditions and remains unchanged for a number of years it may well have become unreasonable through the impact of inflation , either in an absolute sense , or because average contract values have increased .
9 This submission appears to me to suggest a way of making more effective proceedings in Parliament by allowing the court to consider what has been said in Parliament as an aid to resolving an ambiguity which may well have become apparent only as a result of the attempt to apply the enacted words to a particular case .
10 Mrs Heatherton may well have become strange .
11 Almost 80 per cent of the female seals in the Baltic are known to be sterile , primarily as a result of PCB poisoning , and by the year 2000 , grey seals in the Baltic may well have become extinct .
12 The attitudes of the different students interested Paul ; he was popular among them as a tutor , and had there been women among them , might well have become interested in one of these .
13 Naipaul 's readers could well have become inclined to ask why it is that his novels seem to say that there is nothing to be done in , or with , the countries of their concern .
14 Retrospectively , therefore , some Minors might well have become later candidates for Major status .
15 AIDS may well have taught gay men how to work with , as well as benefit from , the services of lesbians .
16 We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight .
17 For much of the time these small market towns may well have appeared sleepy to travellers who were familiar with the hustle and bustle of the big cities , but every week on market day and more especially at the time of the annual fairs they were transformed by an influx of visitors .
18 Franks says Glynn died between nine and one , he might as well have said last night sometime .
19 Pool may well have gone that way had Gibson , Knowles and Murray not worked their wonders .
20 This sort of vessel could well have existed four centuries earlier in the Aegean .
21 Through the arch too , I see the dark water of a deep wide moat ; so dark , indeed , is the water that it might well have remained unstirred since the days of the ‘ brave Lord Willoughby' ’ . '
22 If I had confined myself to initiating ‘ creative drama ’ or ‘ improvisation ’ , I might well have remained satisfied with his participation for he was indeed meeting all the requirements of dramatic playing .
23 He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England .
24 This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both !
25 May well have guessed that already from er , our service this morning .
26 Wherever they were , they would have been bombarded with radiations ; and as the primitive atmosphere was different in composition from that of today , and in particular would have lacked an ozone layer , they could well have received higher doses of radiation than they would today .
27 This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action .
28 It makes sense that if he were able to play as well at Test level as in county matches he may well have scored 80 first-class hundreds already .
29 Much better news awaits those who may well have dismissed all ideas of Caterham ownership with one thought of the insurance bill .
30 This Act of 1806 may well have given young Ben the final push he needed : in that or the following year he packed his bags for good , waved his loving sisters a fond farewell , and set off for London , fame and fortune .
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