Example sentences of "[noun] might [conj] well " in BNC.

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1 The four walls of the cell might as well be the wooden sides of a coffin .
2 But 10,000 Maniacs might as well have added the sound of fishing slapping each other , so irrelevant is the instrumentation .
3 In fact , if the answers given by 40 per cent of women quizzed for a new survey are anything to go by , the EC president might as well Jacques it in …
4 In a cutting reference to Rovers ' multi-millionaire chairman , he scoffed : ‘ Jack Walker might as well buy Walker 's Crisps before he gets Roy Keane .
5 As a student wizard Rincewind had never achieved high marks in precognition , but now unused circuits in his brain were throbbing and the future might as well have been engraved in bright colours on his eyeballs .
6 For God 's sake , the silly little twinkle might as well have majored in handwriting or media studies ! ’
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 That prayer might as well have been couched in his own patois .
9 Of course at this stage , rather than pay the cancellation charge , the buyer might as well take delivery .
10 It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree .
11 Li Yuan might as well try to harness Change itself as try to force the boy 's talents to conform to the needs of State .
12 ‘ And as for the Vancouver race , ’ she went on blithely , ‘ Laurentide Ice might as well melt right now , but Sparrowgrass and Voting Right are both in with a good chance .
13 But Menzies Campbell , Liberal Democrat MP for North-East Fife , warned : ‘ If the submarine refit goes to Devonport and not Rosyth , the Tory Party in Scotland might as well go into receivership . ’
14 Those who want equal time for creation science in biology classes might as well make similar demands for Flat Earth theory in astronomy classes .
15 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 .
16 Whether Kathleen remembered the list of requirements or not , things might as well be got ready , the sorting out begun .
17 There had been no real objective , except a vague idea that if conditions were good Hvannadalshnúkur might as well be climbed .
18 The rabbit might as well have been stuffed for all the movement it made , and I could see that it definitely was staring right at me , its little eyes not blinking , its tiny nose not sniffing , its ears untwitched .
19 So I said no I said , well I 've put the phone number as well and I said it might as well , stuff might as well come straight here .
20 If that 's how it is to be here the BBC might as well change its motto to ’ Anything for a quiet life ’ .
21 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 .
22 If they kept to themselves , the whole northern end of the area might as well be written off .
23 If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary .
24 Over the past few games McAllister might as well stayed in bed for all he did IMHO .
25 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 .
26 He had it then , as clear as a map of a well-charted route unfolded on the captain 's table , what lay in store for him and for the settlement ; though the islanders had not burned wet leaves and swelled white smoke into a pillar of cloud to issue a warning , the signal might as well have been as clear .
27 The debate might as well not have taken place , so far as the further development of both sciences is concerned .
28 I realised that , if I was going to have to break with her , the process of rejection might as well get started right away .
29 Council spending might as well be another foreign language to younger pupils at Pitteville School at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire , but decisions taken by county politicians at tomorrow 's crucial budget meeting could effect every school in the county .
30 Anyone who just wants to play arcade-type games might as well buy a games console .
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