Example sentences of "could [vb infin] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its cuisine was as varied as Hong Kong or Bangkok ( you could eat as well at the Mai Thai restaurant , Wimbledon Broadway , as in anywhere around the Gulf of Thailand ) . |
| 2 | And there are lots of other ones erm you could , you could , you could make as well . |
| 3 | Then she remembered that she had promised to keep Sybil in the picture but decided that could wait as well . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the thrust for privatization somewhat lost its appeal as the public came to realize that share values could fall as well as rise . |
| 5 | Also , during an illness episode , an important consideration is rehabilitation of the individual , and planning for this could commence as soon as the person enters the health care system . |
| 6 | He could dance as well as fight , and he could make polite conversation . |
| 7 | The son of the family went to California , learnt what made the Californians tick , and swore he could do as well , if not better , back in France . |
| 8 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 9 | If you think you could do as well , get cracking — if your game 's anywhere near as bostin' as this one , you could find fame and fortune as a Commodore Force Megastar ! |
| 10 | Now Mill concedes that the guardian , the despots might manage the affairs of the state tolerably well that there 's no reason of principle why a very enlightened despot could n't do fairly well , although Mill claims that no despot could do as well as a good democracy . |
| 11 | Mr Dinkins said he wished ‘ that we could do as well as Tokyo does ’ in keeping crime low and hoped to learn how Tokyo has largely avoided New York 's problems of high crime , drugs and unemployment . |
| 12 | However , when he poses the question of whether his method could work as well for the class struggle as for the boxing match , Sartre admits that he finds it impossible to answer and returns instead to the much easier case of sub-groups . |
| 13 | Yes that was , that was right erm there was a limit to how much you could spend as well was n't there ? |
| 14 | A proposal put to the PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat suggested that the dialogue could resume as soon as the PLO had disciplined the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) for its involvement in the May 30 seaborne attack on the Israeli coast [ see pp. 37443-44 ] . |
| 15 | And she could scream as well … |
| 16 | Boards could maim as well as protect : they had to be muzzled with noseguards . |
| 17 | Yeah I 've learnt a lot basically , I 've learnt erm erm basically what sort of organization that is and those other ones I could mention as well which run along the same sort of lines erm I 've learnt to look after myself |
| 18 | I could tell as soon as I saw Jan that she was all right . |
| 19 | ‘ IF YOU were going to have trouble you could tell as soon as the meat arrived . |
| 20 | And mum could come as well . |
| 21 | I did n't know you could cook as well as … ’ |
| 22 | But I do wish Preston could sing as well . |
| 23 | A typical day 's turning and tedding could start as soon as the dew is off the ground . |
| 24 | Well you 've got another pair of brown ones upstairs you could wear as well , you 've got a new pair of brown ones upstairs |
| 25 | A woman I could love as well as want to go to bed with . |
| 26 | However , since adoption of the proposals was voluntary and existing organisations could continue as before , ‘ there could be no objection in principle to them ’ . |
| 27 | Then our secret life could continue as before , with only the small wild things knowing of our existence . |
| 28 | ‘ Before any enactment existed with regard to actions by solicitors for their costs , a solicitor stood in the same position as any other person who has done work for another at his request , and could sue as soon as the work which he was retained to do was finished , without having delivered any signed bill of costs or waiting for any time after the delivery of such a bill . |
| 29 | " But there was a time long ago when the cassowary could fly as well as the bower-bird. " the old man rumbled as he reached for a sweetcorn in the cinders . |