Example sentences of "could equally well [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it is too general : several other personality traits , such as anxiety — not specifically related to psychosis , though carrying risks for different forms of psychopathology — could equally well be said to generate the motivation necessary for creative production , and often do . |
| 2 | This seems to be a rather narrow and limiting definition , and it could be refuted by pointing out that both subject knowledge and research methodology could equally well be tested by examination , without going to the additional effort of writing a thesis . |
| 3 | This meant that changes in crime rates , or variations between different settings ( such as urban and rural ) , which had played an important part in theories relating social or economic conditions and change to crime , could equally well be explained by variations in crime-recording practices . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the answers are written down , so the test could equally well be called a written test . |
| 5 | The other major seems to be , to do with ideas about what we would qualify , but could equally well be called ritual purity and impurity . |
| 6 | In my investigations so far , I 've come across practitioners who could equally well be categorised as anthropologists , geographers , economists , sociologists and even philosophers . |
| 7 | An argument of Søren Kierkegaard 's expressed this idea in the context of God 's goodness , but the idea could equally well be applied to His existence . |
| 8 | And the summary from Chadwick , Ellis and Rutherford in 1930 could equally well be applied to the events of 1989 : ‘ In all the cases reported , the presence of an element has been mistaken for its creation . ’ |
| 9 | The first sentence describing Cézanne 's late work , could equally well be applied to this kind of painting by Braque . |
| 10 | Although the encoder illustrated is optical the position pulses could equally well be obtained using the waveform detection systems described later . |
| 11 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 12 | Charged by Bragg with writing up notes on the case , Morton decided that they could equally well be done that night , at home . |
| 13 | With a realisation that many of the profession 's tasks , in both the private and the public sector , now being undertaken by graduates and full members of the Institution could equally well be done by qualified technicians , the role , influence and recognition of technician courses is bound to increase . |
| 14 | It could equally well be seen as an attempt to draw attention to problems in the world that her audience might not be aware of . |
| 15 | An important canvas of the autumn or early winter of 1906 , Two Nudes , now in the Museum of Modern Art , New York , could equally well be seen as two studies of a single figure viewed from diametrically opposed positions , an indication that Picasso was not only attempting to produce images of almost unprecedented weight and girth , but that he was also becoming impatient or dissatisfied with the idea of viewing his subjects from a single , stationary point of view . |
| 16 | At work here are what Ashworth calls the ‘ ingrained attitudes ’ — which could equally well be termed ideologies — which influence sentencing decisions . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want to sound sinister , but it could equally well be used to trigger off the detonator in an explosive device being carried by an American Air Force bomber . ’ |
| 18 | Pick Systems delivered , and realised in the process that the serial-port support could equally well be used to support dumb terminals . |
| 19 | The Council 's decision to scrap the tradition in regard to the diaconate suggested that the same tradition in regard to the priesthood could equally well be abandoned if it was pastorally desirable . |
| 20 | While some pluralists , notably Almond ( 1983 ) , Jordan ( 1983 ) and Martin ( 1983 ) , argue that what is described as ‘ corporatism ’ could equally well be contained within a pluralist conception of the state , theorists of corporatism maintain that there is a substantive difference between the two socio-political systems : |