Example sentences of "could be [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the gradualist argument could be applied just as tellingly : chimp-like skull , body size and body build , feet retaining chimp-like features even though the pelvis and lower limbs indicate bipedalism . |
| 2 | It was found that these organising " historical " concepts could be applied just as usefully in the primary school ( albeit in a less sophisticated form ) . |
| 3 | When I say ‘ Where is the pain ? ’ and questions like this , this could be answered just by asking the patient , but there are erm various kinds of tests — one lovely test called Murphy 's test , for example — which have to be carried out by a qualified doctor or a qualified medical person , so it 's not a question of must being hooked onto the computer and the computer giving the answer . |
| 4 | They laid Victor on the floor of their shack and prayed for him , but Victor , realising that nothing could be done just gave up and refused to eat . |
| 5 | The report confirmed that house officers spend much of their time on inappropriate tasks — either those that are beyond their competence and for which they can not hope to provide optimum care ( like providing the main source of symptom control to inpatients , the sole medical cover to surgical patients , and explaining complicated procedures to patients and relatives ) and others that could be done just as well by non-medical staff ( like filing reports , taking routine blood samples , and arranging beds ) . |
| 6 | People who challenge the assumption that much of what a house officer does could be done just as well by someone without a medical qualification may be surprised to learn that in Taunton and Cheltenham nurse practitioners are already working as house officers on two surgical firms ( box ) . |
| 7 | All those calculations about packing the New Testament into the DNA of a single bacterium could be done just as impressively for almost any crystal . |
| 8 | If the proposals get the go-ahead , they could be given just twenty four hours to leave illegally occupied property . |
| 9 | They could be working just as hard , but Vijay 's there for everyone to see , on the range at every tournament for hours . |
| 10 | This would be the most natural way of questioning any of the predicative adjectives in ( 30 ) — and could be used just as well for the second and third cases of ( 28 ) : ( 30 ) his accountant was sensible Helen 's profile is striking the new coin is octagonal Just as the contrast between how ? and which ? reflects the contrast of structural position between postnominal attributive and predicate qualifier , so the contrast of question words between how ? and what ? or what … like ? allows us to infer that an adjective in ordinary predicative position is not a plausible origin for the predicate qualifier . |