Example sentences of "[vb mod] just as " in BNC.
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| 91 | Th the fire , the those feet are catching in that it 's not being used you might just as well switch it off . |
| 92 | Might just as well |
| 93 | You might just as well |
| 94 | you might just as well have undercoated and put ordinary gloss on it . |
| 95 | Got the money we might just as well |
| 96 | I mean to my mind you might just as well spend your money on , what are you doing idiot , on a well made piece of furniture today like some of those we 've seen in , in |
| 97 | Might just as well . |
| 98 | You might just as well have put the phone down . |
| 99 | Might just as well put those three down there had n't I ? |
| 100 | No well I feel in the long run it 's probably wasting money because erm we keep bodging it up which costs money , we might just as well see how much it is to get it and do it , and do it erm . |
| 101 | When I 'm complaining I might just as well |
| 102 | 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 . |
| 103 | My mother and my best friend , both of whom believed that I could just as well have a bath at home , came with me . |
| 104 | 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 . |
| 105 | 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 . |
| 106 | It may seem that the above methods are too time-consuming when one could just as well take every nth name from the list for one 's sample . |
| 107 | As the brigade would probably simply knock down your door , you could just as well do it yourself . |
| 108 | It is not because they are rightists ( they could just as well be leftists ) but because they want to capture the centre not for the gospel but for a ‘ Holy America ’ . |
| 109 | This could just as well be art as social work or joining a religious movement . |
| 110 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 111 | If he wanted a degree he could just as well get one at the technical college in Ipswich … |
| 112 | In the context of what Canada achieved — solid victories over Fiji and Romania , a six-point loss to France in a game that most Canadians feel could just as well have provided another win , and , finally , defeat by New Zealand and a heart-stirring two-try finish — Birtwell and his squad have good reason to be satisfied . |
| 113 | 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 . |
| 114 | Yet , on the other hand , it could just as well be argued that many people may be called Balak , and " king of Moab " specifies which one is meant . |
| 115 | You can also take the train : a mini-train , billed as Europe 's highest small railway ( it could just as well be smallest high railway ) , which coils for no less than ten very lofty , lonely kilometres around the spurs of rock to a distant terminus from which you can walk to the Lac d'Artouste , nearly 200 acres of it , in a stonily unforgiving ring of granite mountains . |
| 116 | She felt a tingle going down her spine that could have been romance or could just as well have been the drink . |
| 117 | We say " true " , " correct " , so it is , etc. , but we could just as well reiterate the proposition concerned . |
| 118 | She could just as well have been arranging my funeral for all the co-operation I offered her . |
| 119 | At first the glare from Lucifer — extending beyond Moloch 's ice-locked horizon , and reflecting from Belial high above — turned the depths of space into a flat black backdrop that could just as well have been suspended a few feet in front of her eyes . |
| 120 | Many of the characteristics of the postwar period which we associate with Fordism , for example , high levels of military spending or private consumption , could just as well be explained in terms of the political institutions which shaped the Fordist era . |