Example sentences of "it might as well [vb infin] [been] " in BNC.
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1 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
2 | I could not make out where they were going , and made several inquiries without getting any answers save in Gaelic ; it might as well have been Hindostani . |
3 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
4 | Gingerly he reached out to touch it ; it might as well have been a physical part of his wife 's anatomy , like an ear or a finger . |
5 | It might as well have been the last rites . |
6 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
7 | It might as well have been ten . |
8 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |