Example sentences of "well have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 2 | In this case the presence of oxygen and hydrogen mixed in the optimum proportions , could well have compounded the effect . |
| 3 | It may well have influenced the Spanish style in the United States and reflected the role of American imperialism in assimilating a Spanish cultural heritage . |
| 4 | The organization of medieval universities into separate ‘ nations ’ must be taken into account , but study by English clerks at Paris may well have influenced the manner in which legal and diplomatic business was transacted with the French . |
| 5 | This was a save that could well have shaped the whole of Villa 's season . |
| 6 | The man was in civilian clothes , yet , in this city thronged with soldiers , he had a confidence that suggested he might well have worn a uniform in his time . |
| 7 | But Molly knew he would say when they got home , ‘ For what I shelled out for the water we might as well have filled the loos up with Chianti . ’ |
| 8 | Charlemagne sent gifts to him in late 795 or early 796 , but when Aethelred was killed in 796 and the Frankish envoys returned to Gaul with the news , Charles recalled his gifts , furious that the Northumbrians should murder their lord and holding them worse than pagans ; and this sudden loss of his Northumbrian protégé may well have endangered the delicate balance Charlemagne was seeking to maintain in England to circumscribe the power of Offa of Mercia ( see below , p. 176 ff . ) . |
| 9 | The other foot may well have crossed the threshold . |
| 10 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 11 | The er the honourable gentleman might well have seen a copy of the er the provisional report which has been prepared but that provisional report is er the same basis as the report er which was presented to er Westminster city council er and then we were n't talking er a difficulty of er two million pounds created , created as a direct result of government under funding of the police authority there , we were talking about the expropriation of millions of pounds to line the pockets and to further the political interests of his party and I did notice the honourable gentleman er vociferous in his condemnation of Westminster city council or any of the other tory controlled city councils . |
| 12 | He may well have seen the picture in the great series of paintings in Pope Innocent II 's ( 1130 – 43 ) new rooms at the Lateran . |
| 13 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 14 | Creative politics may well have served the lads handsomely at their inception , but it 's the stupid sounds that secure their place in history . |
| 15 | Suppressing the chuckle that might well have relayed the wrong message , Beth went to her . |
| 16 | From this may well have followed the whole highly undesirable evolution of British politics in the thirties . |
| 17 | In some ways , this development may well have followed the development in settlements . |
| 18 | However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) . |
| 19 | The economy may well have turned the corner by the next election . |
| 20 | Throughout Childebert 's minority the power structure at the Austrasian court may well have favoured the likes of Boso , Rauching and Egidius . |
| 21 | It seems that the catalogue 's limited subject access could well have reinforced the user 's apparent preference for known-item searching and consequently may also partly account for the apparent increase in known-item searching as the user 's educational level rises . |
| 22 | Furthermore , although Anne 's pregnancy may well have determined the exact timing of the Act of Appeals , the statute 's assertion that England was an empire was by then well-established government policy and echoed arguments formulated several years earlier . |
| 23 | So the predilections of beavers centuries ago may well have determined the places where human beings have their towns today . |
| 24 | This may well have saved the new Bulgaria . |
| 25 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
| 26 | Had Wapnick won yesterday , he might well have reached the last eight . |
| 27 | After ten years , they may well have reached the zenith of maturity when they know no non-Christian friends at all ! |
| 28 | When parents ceased to be available , primitive man could well have felt the loss , and the need to transfer the dependence elsewhere and this led eventually to some form of imagined substitute , or ‘ god ’ as the surrogate . |
| 29 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 30 | They might as well have assaulted a wall of blades with their bare hands . |