Example sentences of "[subord] well [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulls one of those ‘ I-am-about-to-explode-in-front-of-your-very-eyes ’ faces , which we might as well assume is actually a crazy cover-up for the fact that he really means what he says . |
| 2 | She might as well have been eating spam . |
| 3 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 4 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 5 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 6 | She looked so competent and self-assured , so hard , so distant from his own thought and feeling that she might just as well have been a stranger , passing by without a glance in the street . |
| 7 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 8 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 9 | The commentator 's ingenuous query could just as well have been prompted , however , by an unrelated but somehow symptomatic display of the insensitivity and obstinacy that have come to be regarded as part of Kohl 's character . |
| 10 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |
| 11 | It did n't really matter , their expressions seemed to say , he might as well have been a short-order cook or a deep-sea diver or a male prostitute . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He might as well have been blowing a dog whistle for all we heard of his wasted energy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His tone of voice was so bland that he might as well have been asking my opinion of Wavebreaker 's sea-keeping qualities . |
| 16 | ‘ By his assurance , condescension , ease of posture and conversational initiative , ’ said a Times editorial , ‘ Mr Kennedy might just as well have been a bishop testing a candidate for ordination . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But as far as the Prince 's speech was concerned the couple might as well have been strangers . |
| 19 | A furious magistrate told Terrance Long : ‘ You might as well have been driving a bomb ! ’ |
| 20 | That prayer might as well have been couched in his own patois . |
| 21 | The gulls you see cadging bread in London parks could just as well have been born in Finnish Lapland as on the North Kent marshes — it 's impossible to tell from their plumage . |
| 22 | There are no screen credits at the beginnings of dreams to tell you what sort of film you are going to see , but there might as well have been in these nightmares , because the tenor , horror or guilt is excruciatingly present before the first scenes have even been played . |
| 23 | She felt a tingle going down her spine that could have been romance or could just as well have been the drink . |
| 24 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 25 | 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 ! " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I might just as well have been Judd . ’ |
| 28 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 29 | It might as well have been the last rites . |
| 30 | She could just as well have been arranging my funeral for all the co-operation I offered her . |