Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | to the extent to which regard should be had to the range of awards in other cases which are comparable such cases should as a rule be those which have been determined in the same jurisdiction or in a neighbouring locality where similar social , economic and industrial conditions exist . |
| 2 | The four walls of the cell might as well be the wooden sides of a coffin . |
| 3 | But 10,000 Maniacs might as well have added the sound of fishing slapping each other , so irrelevant is the instrumentation . |
| 4 | In fact , if the answers given by 40 per cent of women quizzed for a new survey are anything to go by , the EC president might as well Jacques it in … |
| 5 | In a cutting reference to Rovers ' multi-millionaire chairman , he scoffed : ‘ Jack Walker might as well buy Walker 's Crisps before he gets Roy Keane . |
| 6 | As a student wizard Rincewind had never achieved high marks in precognition , but now unused circuits in his brain were throbbing and the future might as well have been engraved in bright colours on his eyeballs . |
| 7 | For God 's sake , the silly little twinkle might as well have majored in handwriting or media studies ! ’ |
| 8 | The other dealt with weights and seesaws , but forget that balance on a seesaw is governed by weight multiplied by distance from the pivot : in fact for a rigid body the entire weight might as well be concentrated at the body 's centre of gravity , so there 's no way of discriminating head weight from body weight like this . |
| 9 | Darwin , on the other hand felt that if bodies could evolve from one form to the other , therefore the mind could as well , though he freely admitted that he had no ideas concerning the essential nature of mind itself , nor even of life . |
| 10 | I 've enjoyed it and I 'm sure my readers will as well . |
| 11 | However the East Antrim Club will as usual have a strong representation on the water and making a return to competitive GP14 action on Lough Erne will be Curly Morris . |
| 12 | Already , Anglo-American cooperation between the Library of Congress and the British National Bibliography section of the British Library , using the MARC II format , enables a basic data storage of catalogue entries to be made , from which classified , author , title and other lists can as required be produced . |
| 13 | George and Ringo sided with John and Klein launched into a ruthless purge , clearing out the parasites and the dead wood — but consigning any trace of idealism to the trash can as well . |
| 14 | That prayer might as well have been couched in his own patois . |
| 15 | Of course at this stage , rather than pay the cancellation charge , the buyer might as well take delivery . |
| 16 | The degree of pressure to turn persuasion or appeals to affection into undue influence may as Sir James Hannen P. said in Wingrove v. Wingrove , 11 P.D . |
| 17 | Throughswing By now the ball is flying down the fairway must as you imagined it would . |
| 18 | The district or islands council must as necessary appoint other persons to act for or assist the clerk . |
| 19 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 20 | Li Yuan might as well try to harness Change itself as try to force the boy 's talents to conform to the needs of State . |
| 21 | ‘ And as for the Vancouver race , ’ she went on blithely , ‘ Laurentide Ice might as well melt right now , but Sparrowgrass and Voting Right are both in with a good chance . |
| 22 | But Menzies Campbell , Liberal Democrat MP for North-East Fife , warned : ‘ If the submarine refit goes to Devonport and not Rosyth , the Tory Party in Scotland might as well go into receivership . ’ |
| 23 | Her parents would as lief have me as Humphrey , and she 'd a good deal rather . ’ |
| 24 | He began by arguing that adaptive radiation in the animal kingdom produces diversity and specialization , but that such a process may as commonly entail a structural atrophy , as in the case of parasites or cave fish , as it does some directional increase in complexity . |
| 25 | From our point of view the conference may as well have been organised by the Labour Party . |
| 26 | Those who want equal time for creation science in biology classes might as well make similar demands for Flat Earth theory in astronomy classes . |
| 27 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 28 | This eruption could as well be termed Peleean as Plinian , for part of the force of the great eruption of 1956 was expended in powerful nuees which swept down the flanks of the volcano with terrific force . |
| 29 | Cry 'd as amidst his veteran bands he rose |
| 30 | The ‘ new conservatives ’ have made it worse by arguing , incorrectly as it happens , that since the children of the élite for the most part ( and for both genetic and environmental reasons ) become the élite , then the elaborate process of selection may as well be shortened and a plain hereditary principle reintroduced . |