Example sentences of "it could [adv] [conj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The answer must be that it could not since the fact of adopting depreciation accounting severs the link with finance . |
| 7 | The august length of the Champs Elysées culminating in the sublime Arc de Triomphe with the eternal flame burning beneath it could not but fill me with reverential awe . |
| 8 | In James ' view , it could not because it was not , and , as he had throughout the previous decade , he remained implacably opposed to the Soviet regime under Stalin . |
| 9 | But she knew it could n't and so she relaxed , exulting in the magic freedom of now . |
| 10 | People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work . |
| 11 | It could well and easily be replaced by a doctrine which has it that the surgeon 's act carries liability only if good faith and due care and skill can be shown to be lacking . |
| 12 | It could still and at the same time be an anglicisation of ‘ Froda ’ , a name ‘ meaningless ’ to hobbits by the time of the War of the Ring , and accepted by them as just another chance disyllable like ‘ Bilba , Bunga , Pola ’ , but actually preserving in oblivion the name of an ancient hero from the Dale or the Mark . |