Example sentences of "would [be] just as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One visitor went there expecting obfuscation , for I have read Sartre on art and think that Sartre on cricket would be just as illuminating . |
| 2 | ‘ If he was alive it would be just as hopeless . |
| 3 | Was there any reason to doubt that 1972 would be just as successful ? |
| 4 | I mean it would be just as well to buy another thing of coffee because at the moment you get that extra little erm |
| 5 | This is done to allow them time to come back gradually to a state of full alertness without any sense of shock — but it would be just as effective if I were to snap my fingers or even simply to tell them to ‘ wake up ’ . |
| 6 | Well I 'm sure that those other areas are , would be just as anxious of the people to have |
| 7 | Historians or philosophers would be just as good , provided they were not actually hostile to religion . |
| 8 | It would be just as easy for a group of primary schools to pool their efforts and resources in spearheading a joint campaign aimed at both local and national industry . |
| 9 | Although striking an important psychological blow by coming out on the winning side against his main challenger , Wasps ' Steve Bates , he admitted : ‘ Even though I am the man in possession , it would be just as easy for the selectors to pick Steve . ’ |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that although business sponsorship of the arts is extremely important and welcome , it would be just as beneficial for the arts , particularly local theatres such as the Civic theatre in Chelmsford , if we had a national lottery to which everyone could contribute to help to raise funds for the arts ? |
| 11 | Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours . |
| 12 | If she let herself believe even a word of that then she would be just as bad as they were ! |
| 13 | The old imperial line of communication through the Mediterranean , Suez Canal , Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East and the Antipodes would be just as important to the Commonwealth as it had been to the colonial Empire . |
| 14 | Bob Shorter , the contracts director for Highland Health Board , said the news was encouraging , but stressed that money to cover running costs would be just as important as money which might pay for a new hospital . |
| 15 | Er and it would be just as sensible to make a discount for industrial land on that basis . |
| 16 | Teddy is n't proud , a sum per aircraft up to June 30 is fine , but a fixed amount in a cheque now would be just as welcome ( monies payable to St John Ambulance Headquarters Fund ) . |
| 17 | The excitement of a group of horses galloping together with hounds at heel would be just as intense . |
| 18 | In fact they would be just as likely to turn to the agony aunt pages of a magazine . |
| 19 | In actual fact , if a court finds it hard to know whether a particular situation comes within the words of a statute or not , the probability is the situation was not foreseen by the legislature , so that the Lords and Members of Parliament would be just as puzzled by it as the judges are . |
| 20 | Reg and I were most vitriolic about the risk to which we had been exposed and hoped that the Germans would be just as inefficient . ’ |
| 21 | To speak of the " same substance " would be just as ungrammatical as to speak of the " same Socrates " . |
| 22 | The purpose of this chapter has been to establish three propositions : that religious beliefs have penetrated scientific discussion on many levels , that to reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict is therefore inadequate , but that to construct a revisionist history for apologetic purposes would be just as problematic . |
| 23 | Paying them less would be just as reprehensible . |