Example sentences of "[noun sg] may as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From our point of view the conference may as well have been organised by the Labour Party . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | True , the STV may as we have just seen be broken down into unpredictable fractions if the senatorial rules are applied . |
| 6 | Radio 5 and Manchester Of The Day may as well move their studios to Old Trafford . |
| 7 | If this phase difference is negligibly small , say , less than a few degrees , then the line may as well be represented in terms of lumped components corresponding to the total series and parallel impedances . |
| 8 | The system may as well do it , and present the operator with each applicant within the vacancy in turn in numerical order . |
| 9 | ‘ Corbett , you and your wide-eyed servant may as well sit . |
| 10 | While the nature of the plaintiff 's interest may as argued above affect the content of natural justice or fairness , the argument from Schmidt , which equates the absence of procedural protection with the absence of a right to stay , is subject to all the criticism of such reasoning outlined in the discussion of employment relationships . |
| 11 | The atmosphere may as they say be electric but it 's nothing compared with the nervous energy being generated in this box . |
| 12 | For secondary school pupils , database creation may as yet mean very little outside the computer studies department but , on encountering some examples of databases in S1/S2 , they may remember similar exercises with football terms or animals in primary school . |