Example sentences of "could as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vile joke — he could as well sprout wings and fly straight up to the sun as find that sum ! |
| 2 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 3 | After decades of trying to become big competitors , they were determined to learn as much as they could as suppliers to America 's Boeing , the world 's biggest civil-aircraft maker , and then to stand on their own . |
| 4 | It is not chemically necessary that a particular hormone has a particular effect — for example , that adrenalin produces bodily changes associated with anger and fear : as far as chemistry is concerned , adrenalin could as well have evolved as a tranquillizer . |
| 5 | You might think that since the world stays just as nice , we could as well regard Tit for Tat as an ESS . |
| 6 | This eruption could as well be termed Peleean as Plinian , for part of the force of the great eruption of 1956 was expended in powerful nuees which swept down the flanks of the volcano with terrific force . |
| 7 | Darwin , on the other hand felt that if bodies could evolve from one form to the other , therefore the mind could as well , though he freely admitted that he had no ideas concerning the essential nature of mind itself , nor even of life . |
| 8 | The challenge , as in Sade , is in the abyss of unreason it opens up ; it could as well be , and easily becomes , ‘ I do this because it hurts me ’ . |
| 9 | Anselm met them as best he could as they arose , and we may trace them step by step , less to recall the stages in an archbishop 's promotion , than to understand the state of mind in which Anselm progressed from one stage to the next . |
| 10 | I 'd buy grams whenever I could as it 'd save me going over to Liverpool to score . |
| 11 | As the train drew near she looked out for Rough Stones , the house up on the hillside where they had made their first home ; but it was night , and all she saw was a glimmer that could as well have been a shepherd 's lantern . |
| 12 | The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770 . |
| 13 | But she 'd be as cool and calm as she could as she tried to point out to Naylor Massingham the unfairness of his action . |
| 14 | Ah went in to where John were working cos I wanted to borrow a spanner , he said I could just murder a cig and his , his mate said ah I could as well . |
| 15 | Well that 's what I 'm saying about the image of the drinking er I guarantee you could as you know as you say you could be in a pub all afternoon all evening all night with maybe twenty people having a music session and ten of them might n't be drinking at all . |