Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] as " in BNC.

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1 The dinner was being held on the racecourse , in the grandstand with its almost limitless capacity , and the whole affair , Mackie had told me , was frankly only a giant advertisement , but everyone might as well enjoy it .
2 Despite the fact that there are a number of top quality workshops in other countries , none can as yet be considered worthy of a place in the masterworkshop class .
3 They being agreed , one may as well go back to the ‘ finger in the wind ’ !
4 There 's simply no personal challenge whatsoever ; one may as well pull the wings off small inspects or laugh at old people .
5 But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable , and one might as well say so .
6 If this is so , then it seems that for ‘ the art one serves ’ one might as well read : the culture one serves , the historical period one serves , even the society one serves ( perhaps an international society ) .
7 One might as well expect mercy from a killer shark or warmth from a cube of ice .
8 So camp one might as well watch from a tent .
9 Given those odds , claims Salsburg , one might as well flip a coin .
10 C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ .
11 If one realizes that one is dealing with myths and symbols , then one might as well create myths and symbols which are true to what one would symbolize .
12 One might as well ask a tree why it grows , ’ Minton is said to have replied .
13 One might as well welcome them , after all : there is not much point in rejecting them .
14 If one had to worry about one 's actions in respect of other people 's ideas , one might as well be buried alive in an ant heap or married to an ambitious violinist .
15 I do n't mind that television is trivial — one might as well mind that a banana is bent — nor do I much object to the BBC appointing a personnel director to implement witlessly trendy policies .
16 As explained before , this means that one might as well cut the big bang , and any events before it , out of the theory , because they can have no effect on what we observe .
17 But being steeped , like them , in the philosophy that if one did a job at all one might as well do it splendidly — or at least a good deal better than the Braithwaites — he had built a very decent stone school with a walled yard and a tiny house attached for the use of the teacher , where anyone who paid him rent for his mill-cottages or any of his other employees who resided elsewhere might send their children — to suit the convenience of the teacher — free of charge .
18 One might as well not be there . ’
19 One might as well compare a soft grass path with a concrete walkway . ’
20 One might as well speak of even-handed socialism .
21 Anything will as long as the engine keeps ticking over , is n't that a fact ? ’
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