Example sentences of "[noun pl] could just " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory children over the age of 12 months could just use an adult seat belt . |
| 2 | Quickly an apartment block rose six storeys high around it , almost removing it from sight : passers-by could just make it out looking through the unglazed windows of the unfinished ground-floor flats . |
| 3 | It says Ralph and Denise are only too aware there can be no substitute for James but are beginning to hope that better times could just be coming . |
| 4 | The celebrations that marked United 's third major Cup — four if you count the European Super Cup — in two calendar years could just be a rehearsal if they land the First Division title in the next three weeks . |
| 5 | It was the popularity of the show rather than herself she had in mind , although her own extraordinarily sexy form in those days could just have had something to do with it . |
| 6 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 7 | The greater variability in the reproductive success of males could just be a random result : by chance some individuals will meet more mates than do others , and this will have a larger effect on the variability of reproduction of males , because in males more of the random encounters can result in mating . |
| 8 | There was no formal appointments system at the centre and people with drugs problems could just ‘ drop in ’ to talk to counsellors . |
| 9 | Of course , other studies could just as easily be cited to state the opposite . |
| 10 | Emulating private firms could just as well mean collusion , the formation of oligopolies , price rings and cartels , or the withholding of information from consumers . |
| 11 | where human features could just be descried . |
| 12 | Both are referring specifically to the woman 's role in personal relationships , but it seems to me that their comments could just as easily be applied to the role of children in relation to adults . |
| 13 | The Needles could just be made out in the distance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The bits and bytes could just as easily represent a large textual database as the music of a rock band . |
| 16 | Industrial or hospital steel trolleys could just as well store stereo , files , tv , video , sewing or hobby equipment . |
| 17 | Even if it gets to the stage where they are bound to win it , the bookies could just reduce the odds to something like 1–100 on . |
| 18 | And I wonder if one of the clerks could just put it before us please . |