Example sentences of "was just as well " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Guaranteed Not To Split ’ , it said on it — which was just as well as much later I had the initial idea for ‘ Anarchy ’ while messing around on it .
2 But I did n't get to the point of giving them names , which was just as well , because in the end they both had to go to market .
3 Perhaps it was just as well that there did n't seem to be any extra business around tonight .
4 It was just as well Devoy clinched the issue in three games , for she admitted to being tired .
5 No one wanted proof or reasons , which was just as well … there were NO reasons .
6 This was just as well , for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner .
7 This was just as well because the washing was not only hung up on poles above but spread out upon drying racks in the street itself .
8 Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five .
9 Which was just as well , as Jim was not ideally cut out to be a farmer !
10 It was just as well , I thought , that the noise of the storm and the engines kept me from hearing what he said .
11 This was just as well , because I must have looked pea green , and it did n't make me feel any better to watch Olive sitting up front chatting to the pilot and navigator , obviously having the time of her life .
12 This was just as well , because as a native he would have been a bit hard to take .
13 But perhaps it was just as well that she had this shock , for in her relief at finding the injury comparatively slight , she forbore to say very much about the unexpected guest .
14 It was just as well I did request an s.a.e. as over the next ten days I received over five hundred requests !
15 I did n't give them names , which was just as well because they both had to go to be killed .
16 It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since .
17 Indeed he almost felt for music , wild dancing now : Winnie returned , with two wines , which was just as well as Rab had all but drained her glass .
18 We passed Cap Bon ( in the distance ) and Pantelleria , the latter at sea level — which was just as well as it was raining at the time , otherwise we might have missed it and also because we were told afterwards that there was an airfield there with Bf110s .
19 Perhaps it was just as well .
20 It had been a wet , raw winter , with the ground waterlogged and streams running high ; but at least there had been little snow and the hill passes were open , which was just as well for a journey to mid-Annandale .
21 Then , with that stoical and selfless streak in her character , she reflected that perhaps it was just as well he was not .
22 It was just as well he knew that , Masklin thought , because otherwise he 'd think it was Outside .
23 It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country .
24 So it was just as well Old Red never allowed anyone on duty , including perhaps himself , to remember that he also was human — and still a good deal younger than General Francis .
25 And perhaps it was just as well because there , on the seat of the rag cart and sitting as patiently as the pony was standing , was Ben .
26 Which was just as well , as this time he came back after a very few minutes .
27 This was just as well .
28 Which was just as well because Derek Jefferson , the managing director of the firm , was there as the stand-in caddie , and was similarly dressed in Supersight clothing .
29 It was just as well that he did n't know my long-term aim was to be a pro golfer .
30 Whitlock was the master of patience ; nothing ever seemed to rile him , which was just as well considering the simmering tension between Sabrina and Graham .
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