Example sentences of "[adv] they might as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are not going to speak out soon they might as well accept a life sentence of watching Esther Rantzen . |
| 2 | If we 're going to have some rumours flying around they might as well be exciting ones . |
| 3 | If you speak a language well , accents are a minor problem , if you do n't they might as well be speaking ancient Egyptian . |
| 4 | Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job . |
| 5 | It is generally expected that the profits firms receive as a result of collusion exceed those they would earn in the one-shot NE , otherwise they might as well not collude . |
| 6 | Ford believed , in fact , that putting colleges with the CNAA rather than their local university meant for students that ‘ academically they might as well take the train to London ’ . |