Example sentences of "[vb mod] just as well " in BNC.
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61 | She might just as well have stuck a neon sign on her head , inviting him to make love to her . |
62 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
63 | He might just as well have branded her with the seal of his possession . |
64 | I might just as well clean the gun . |
65 | My name might just as well not be on it , ’ objected the author . |
66 | So she may believe that her price is higher than she initially expected because of a relative demand shift in her favour , which she might just as well take advantage of by supplying more output . |
67 | She might just as well have saved her breath , because he kissed her anyway . |
68 | In which case she might just as well be punctual for their mutually unwelcome assignation , rather than give him cause for further sarcasm at her expense ! |
69 | She might just as well conserve her energy . |
70 | In the meantime , she might just as well take another look at those ledgers and see if she could make any sense of them . |
71 | She might just as well have been driven to the airport by taxi , Jenna mourned . |
72 | I might just as well pack up and go if you ca n't even listen to things reasonably ! ’ |
73 | ‘ He might just as well have been ! ’ |
74 | You might just as well give it to Adolf Hitler frankly . " |
75 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
76 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
77 | ‘ You might just as well tear those up as well , Inspector , I 'm afraid . ’ |
78 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
79 | We might just as well call it the Non-R RE model . |
80 | Luiza and Freddi have n't worked all winter , so feel they might just as well rent out their Salzburg apartment and come up here to wait for rehearsals to begin . |
81 | Looking at the proportional evidence from the Niemecz organs , one might just as well say that Beethoven 's Symphony no.1 Menuetto had been ‘ Haydnized ’ and one could say so the more properly chronologically , since Haydn was the earlier of the two composers to start describing quick tempos for his minuets . |
82 | The truth of the matter is this of course , that Mr might just as well put here any indirect tax , because that 's what it 's about . |
83 | You might just as well pick out anything but having done it and taking up , er what Mr mentioned , this question I think it was Mr , about the deficit . |
84 | He might just as well have enticed , ‘ Wo n't you walk into my parlour ? ’ |
85 | She tried to push him away , but she might just as well have tried to move the Campanile . |
86 | I might just as well be a boy for all the interest you take in me as — as a woman ! ’ |
87 | otherwise it might just as well get chucked out might n't it ? |
88 | So I 've , I I did some rice and ha had it , but might just as well have thrown it away . |
89 | And she says might just as well be with the kids like so . |
90 | Might just as well walk from Croydon . |