Example sentences of "could [adv] as well [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I could just as well go and have a bath . |
| 2 | As the brigade would probably simply knock down your door , you could just as well do it yourself . |
| 3 | We say " true " , " correct " , so it is , etc. , but we could just as well reiterate the proposition concerned . |
| 4 | Emulating private firms could just as well mean collusion , the formation of oligopolies , price rings and cartels , or the withholding of information from consumers . |
| 5 | Industrial or hospital steel trolleys could just as well store stereo , files , tv , video , sewing or hobby equipment . |
| 6 | You could just as well say the same for him , death in a box , but it is a , and now the next advert , with him now , the next advert is even better . |
| 7 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 8 | My mother and my best friend , both of whom believed that I could just as well have a bath at home , came with me . |
| 9 | The commentator 's ingenuous query could just as well have been prompted , however , by an unrelated but somehow symptomatic display of the insensitivity and obstinacy that have come to be regarded as part of Kohl 's character . |
| 10 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |
| 11 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 12 | In the context of what Canada achieved — solid victories over Fiji and Romania , a six-point loss to France in a game that most Canadians feel could just as well have provided another win , and , finally , defeat by New Zealand and a heart-stirring two-try finish — Birtwell and his squad have good reason to be satisfied . |
| 13 | The gulls you see cadging bread in London parks could just as well have been born in Finnish Lapland as on the North Kent marshes — it 's impossible to tell from their plumage . |
| 14 | She felt a tingle going down her spine that could have been romance or could just as well have been the drink . |
| 15 | She could just as well have been arranging my funeral for all the co-operation I offered her . |
| 16 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 17 | Indeed the subject matter of many of Mercer 's plays — which was often Mercer — could just as well have been Goodwin . |
| 18 | If he wanted a degree he could just as well get one at the technical college in Ipswich … |
| 19 | It may seem that the above methods are too time-consuming when one could just as well take every nth name from the list for one 's sample . |