Example sentences of "[modal v] as [adv] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They might as well be living in Timbuctoo in 1880 ! ’ |
| 2 | However , the poem that opens the volume , ‘ Ego Dominus Tuus ’ , is in the form of an inconclusive dialogue between two persons ‘ Hic ’ and ‘ Ille ’ , who it is generally agreed might as well be named at certain points as ‘ Ez ’ and ‘ Willie ’ . |
| 3 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 4 | Sequoia 2000 , the consortium of the US universities led by the University of California at Berkeley and the cultural successor to the Athena project , might as well be described as the Vatican of Unix , he says . |
| 5 | Then , perhaps a little frightened by his own rhetoric but thinking that he might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb , he increased the figure to 1 million . |
| 6 | And you might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb , as doubtless they say on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 7 | The other dealt with weights and seesaws , but forget that balance on a seesaw is governed by weight multiplied by distance from the pivot : in fact for a rigid body the entire weight might as well be concentrated at the body 's centre of gravity , so there 's no way of discriminating head weight from body weight like this . |
| 8 | ‘ They have a great technique , but it 's all too smooth and almost jazz-like ; they might as well be performing in a Holiday Inn lounge or something ! |
| 9 | During a proper swing , the clubhead free-wheels through the ball and might as well be disconnected from the shaft at the point of impact . |
| 10 | Whereas really , then if you have bathroom , they might as well be working in that same bedroom at the same time , whereas we had two separate gangs . |
| 11 | Or if it can — there is a case for that too — it might as well be thought about first . |
| 12 | If this phase difference is negligibly small , say , less than a few degrees , then the line may as well be represented in terms of lumped components corresponding to the total series and parallel impedances . |
| 13 | After all , the continuity between man and animal can as well be achieved by showing that man is a machine as by ascribing intentions to animals . |
| 14 | Stanley was also an able stuccoist , but , as with his sculptural works , little can as yet be assigned to him with certainty until the 1740s . |
| 15 | In 1609 or 1610 Larkin painted the only picture which can as yet be linked to documentary evidence : a portrait of Edward Herbert , first Baron Herbert of Cherbury [ q.v. ] , |