Example sentences of "[pron] might just as well [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Looking at the proportional evidence from the Niemecz organs , one might just as well say that Beethoven 's Symphony no.1 Menuetto had been ‘ Haydnized ’ and one could say so the more properly chronologically , since Haydn was the earlier of the two composers to start describing quick tempos for his minuets . |
| 32 | We might just as well call it the Non-R RE model . |
| 33 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 34 | We might just as well grumble about Constable 's omission of tractors from his landscapes . |
| 35 | Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘ Our Mother which art in Heaven ’ … . |
| 36 | No well I feel in the long run it 's probably wasting money because erm we keep bodging it up which costs money , we might just as well see how much it is to get it and do it , and do it erm . |
| 37 | We might just as well shut up shop . |
| 38 | We might just as well say that the Holocaust was God punishing the Jews ! |
| 39 | Luiza and Freddi have n't worked all winter , so feel they might just as well rent out their Salzburg apartment and come up here to wait for rehearsals to begin . |
| 40 | I do not believe , though many readers are convinced of it , that this is what finally attracts them , otherwise they might just as well do a crossword puzzle . |
| 41 | Local facilities such as libraries , swimming pools , tennis courts , further education classes , bingo , cinemas , pubs , working men 's clubs , parks , concerts and church services are , in theory , for the use of everyone , and if people with mental disorder live day in and day out inside the confines of a suburban house and never use such local facilities or participate in the life of the community , they might just as well remain behind the walls of an institution . |
| 42 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 43 | As for the idealistic school , they might just as well have gone to North Wales or Derbyshire . |
| 44 | ‘ They might just as well have done , ’ she said despairingly . |
| 45 | They looked phoney , but only because they looked new ; once they had cracked and weathered and slumped a little , nobody would ever credit that they might just as well have been built as concrete and glass shoe-boxes . |
| 46 | Mind you , he paid , I 'll say that for him , but it might just as well have been her — the money was thrown down the drain all the same ! " |
| 47 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 48 | otherwise it might just as well get chucked out might n't it ? |
| 49 | He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’ |
| 50 | He might just as well have stipulated long white trousers . |
| 51 | When he brushed some hair away from her face he might just as well have placed his hand on her most intimate spot . |
| 52 | He might just as well have branded her with the seal of his possession . |
| 53 | ‘ He might just as well have been ! ’ |
| 54 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
| 55 | He might just as well have enticed , ‘ Wo n't you walk into my parlour ? ’ |