Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb mod] as [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four walls of the cell might as well be the wooden sides of a coffin . |
| 2 | When Mrs Grandison had rejoined them it was still not quite half-past two , but Mark came in to say that as everybody was already waiting in the hall and it would be difficult to restrain them from buying things much longer , the bazaar might as well be opened immediately . |
| 3 | But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction . |
| 4 | If they kept to themselves , the whole northern end of the area might as well be written off . |
| 5 | Until Naive Prober tries one of its probing defections the players might as well be two Tit for Tats . |
| 6 | Road is there 's the country is there 's , so the road might as well be there 's . |
| 7 | In terms of radio and television attention , a record at 42 in the charts might as well be at 92 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The papers might as well be handed that titbit in tomorrow 's press statement . |