Example sentences of "[noun sg] might as " in BNC.

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1 The four walls of the cell might as well be the wooden sides of a coffin .
2 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 …
3 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 .
4 For God 's sake , the silly little twinkle might as well have majored in handwriting or media studies ! ’
5 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 .
6 That prayer might as well have been couched in his own patois .
7 Of course at this stage , rather than pay the cancellation charge , the buyer might as well take delivery .
8 It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 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 .
11 There had been no real objective , except a vague idea that if conditions were good Hvannadalshnúkur might as well be climbed .
12 The rabbit might as well have been stuffed for all the movement it made , and I could see that it definitely was staring right at me , its little eyes not blinking , its tiny nose not sniffing , its ears untwitched .
13 So I said no I said , well I 've put the phone number as well and I said it might as well , stuff might as well come straight here .
14 When Mrs Grandison had rejoined them it was still not quite half-past two , but Mark came in to say that as everybody was already waiting in the hall and it would be difficult to restrain them from buying things much longer , the bazaar might as well be opened immediately .
15 If they kept to themselves , the whole northern end of the area might as well be written off .
16 If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary .
17 But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction .
18 He had it then , as clear as a map of a well-charted route unfolded on the captain 's table , what lay in store for him and for the settlement ; though the islanders had not burned wet leaves and swelled white smoke into a pillar of cloud to issue a warning , the signal might as well have been as clear .
19 The debate might as well not have taken place , so far as the further development of both sciences is concerned .
20 I realised that , if I was going to have to break with her , the process of rejection might as well get started right away .
21 Council spending might as well be another foreign language to younger pupils at Pitteville School at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire , but decisions taken by county politicians at tomorrow 's crucial budget meeting could effect every school in the county .
22 Road is there 's the country is there 's , so the road might as well be there 's .
23 But as far as the Prince 's speech was concerned the couple might as well have been strangers .
24 He wandered restlessly about , and decided that the lie might as well become the truth .
25 The businessman might as well go off and start his own photographic processor , print shop , or plumbing company but for the initial advice on how to run the organisation .
26 A chap might as well be dead when he reaches twenty .
27 Many of the quite commonplace products of modern technology might as well be magic , for all that any normal person could be expected to understand how they work .
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