Example sentences of "could equally well [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 2 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 3 | It could equally well have been a photocopy supplied by the employee . |
| 4 | Amongst other things , the computer was used to display a conventional set of instructions that could equally well have been provided in a printed form . |
| 5 | We do not know if they had music or even if they had genuine art : cave-paintings and bone-carvings might be manifestations of the muse , but they could equally well have been executed solely for mystical purposes . |
| 6 | Guide could equally well have been designed , like Quill , to use an SGML mark-up . |
| 7 | If the two were n't simultaneous , then it could equally well have been — as Vincent clearly seems to think — a case of murder . ’ |
| 8 | Since the passing of the Theft Act 1968 the accused could equally well have been prosecuted successfully for obtaining property by deception contrary to section 15 of the Act . |
| 9 | Curiously husky , his voice beguiled her ears as powerfully as his hands were seducing her body , caressing her naked skin beneath her simple top , tantalising the sensitised surface , warm and demanding , seeking the clasp of her flesh-coloured bra , dismantling it with a sure touch that might have come from practice but could equally well have been attributed to simple deduction , except that nothing was simple about this man who had already knowingly conquered her body … åd , unknowingly , her heart as well . |
| 10 | Under the present circumstances it could equally well have been me or Quigley . |