Example sentences of "just as well " in BNC.
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| 31 | This could just as well be art as social work or joining a religious movement . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | He might just as well not have bothered , for it was there still , it would be there for ever , unless one day they found how to cut memory out of the brain with a scalpel . |
| 34 | If he wanted a degree he could just as well get one at the technical college in Ipswich … |
| 35 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 36 | To me , the whole process might just as well be magic . |
| 37 | She wrote , ‘ You might just as well throw that poor child on the compost heap . ’ |
| 38 | Precepts of holiness , he declared , might just as well be preached to a wolf as to a man , if man were naturally and inevitably wicked . |
| 39 | The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country . |
| 40 | But surely it is possible that the women 's assessments might just as well have reflected their awareness of sex stereotypes and their consequent desire to fulfil ‘ normal ’ expectations that women talk ‘ better ’ . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | You might just as well have sent him out naked round the privates . |
| 43 | A shrub rose may be a true species , pure and simple , it may be ancient , or it can just as well be a highly cross-bred product of more recent times . |
| 44 | We might just as well shut up shop . |
| 45 | Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘ Our Mother which art in Heaven ’ … . |
| 46 | Suppose he suggests that the Incarnation might just as well have taken a female as a male form , and the Second Person of the Trinity be as well called the Daughter as the Son … . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | She did n't actually say , ‘ Please hurry up , oh please hurry up , ’ but she might just as well have done : her mouth twitched as if she were muttering it inwardly , her eyes kept darting to the clock on the mantelpiece and there were red , nervous spots on her cheeks . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | But now she might just as well be living with Mrs Jackson ! . |
| 51 | Archaeologists have a clear responsibility : until the information contained in those records is made available to other archaeologists , and to the general public , the excavation is not complete : the information is still as inaccessible as if the site had never been excavated , and the records themselves might just as well be buried . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | An interpretation which sees postmodernist organization as simply another form of totalitarianism may just as well turn out to be appropriate as one which celebrates its pluralism . |
| 54 | She felt a tingle going down her spine that could have been romance or could just as well have been the drink . |
| 55 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 56 | 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 ! " |
| 57 | In the other … you might just as well try to go to sleep when your feet are cold or you want to spend a penny , or you 're hungry for a special kind of food you have n't got . |
| 58 | You might just as well say to a publisher , should you take his advance royalties ! " |
| 59 | So we can just as well imagine that all the charge is concentrated at the origin of the coordinate system . |
| 60 | It is possible to study electromagnetic theory without ever mentioning the word electron , but since it has become such a household word and is used so often we can just as well make use of it . |