Example sentences of "could just as well " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 2 | My mother and my best friend , both of whom believed that I could just as well have a bath at home , came with me . |
| 3 | The commentator 's ingenuous query could just as well have been prompted , however , by an unrelated but somehow symptomatic display of the insensitivity and obstinacy that have come to be regarded as part of Kohl 's character . |
| 4 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |
| 5 | It may seem that the above methods are too time-consuming when one could just as well take every nth name from the list for one 's sample . |
| 6 | As the brigade would probably simply knock down your door , you could just as well do it yourself . |
| 7 | It is not because they are rightists ( they could just as well be leftists ) but because they want to capture the centre not for the gospel but for a ‘ Holy America ’ . |
| 8 | This could just as well be art as social work or joining a religious movement . |
| 9 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 10 | If he wanted a degree he could just as well get one at the technical college in Ipswich … |
| 11 | In the context of what Canada achieved — solid victories over Fiji and Romania , a six-point loss to France in a game that most Canadians feel could just as well have provided another win , and , finally , defeat by New Zealand and a heart-stirring two-try finish — Birtwell and his squad have good reason to be satisfied . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yet , on the other hand , it could just as well be argued that many people may be called Balak , and " king of Moab " specifies which one is meant . |
| 14 | You can also take the train : a mini-train , billed as Europe 's highest small railway ( it could just as well be smallest high railway ) , which coils for no less than ten very lofty , lonely kilometres around the spurs of rock to a distant terminus from which you can walk to the Lac d'Artouste , nearly 200 acres of it , in a stonily unforgiving ring of granite mountains . |
| 15 | She felt a tingle going down her spine that could have been romance or could just as well have been the drink . |
| 16 | We say " true " , " correct " , so it is , etc. , but we could just as well reiterate the proposition concerned . |
| 17 | She could just as well have been arranging my funeral for all the co-operation I offered her . |
| 18 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 19 | Many of the characteristics of the postwar period which we associate with Fordism , for example , high levels of military spending or private consumption , could just as well be explained in terms of the political institutions which shaped the Fordist era . |
| 20 | The actual choice of routes through the dilemma is irrelevant and could just as well be decided by the toss of a coin . |
| 21 | When modern social anthropologists write about " primitive " peoples it is for want of a better vocabulary ; they could just as well be writing about " other " peoples . |
| 22 | Indeed the subject matter of many of Mercer 's plays — which was often Mercer — could just as well have been Goodwin . |
| 23 | Industrial or hospital steel trolleys could just as well store stereo , files , tv , video , sewing or hobby equipment . |
| 24 | Cos this happens to be a camera but it could just as well be er an electric toaster , or any , any inanimate object taken er , in this fashion , and the thing you 've got to do if you take a photograph of an inanimate object er , like this , is to light it correctly , er it 's got to show all the erm , detail finely , and it 's got to have good quality in the printing . |
| 25 | Emulating private firms could just as well mean collusion , the formation of oligopolies , price rings and cartels , or the withholding of information from consumers . |
| 26 | You could just as well say the same for him , death in a box , but it is a , and now the next advert , with him now , the next advert is even better . |
| 27 | Well that 's er They should be sorry because , you know , I could just as well |
| 28 | So I could just as well go and have a bath . |