Example sentences of "may as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one . |
| 3 | May as well live in the present , that 's what I say . |
| 4 | They being agreed , one may as well go back to the ‘ finger in the wind ’ ! |
| 5 | I may as well stick it out to the end . |
| 6 | ‘ May as well use the lift , ’ said Burden with a trace of self-consciousness . |
| 7 | ‘ Since we 've come so far , ’ he said , ‘ we may as well have another chat with Mrs Hatton . ’ |
| 8 | Come on now , you may as well tell us . |
| 9 | ‘ Since I 'm home , ’ she said , ‘ I may as well do my duty . |
| 10 | ‘ We may as well start at the top , then . ’ |
| 11 | Your hair may be well cut , but if you 're a trendy executive and your latest hairdo is just that tiny bit mumsy , you may as well hibernate for a few months . |
| 12 | ‘ They may as well call it ‘ Women who do n't wear make-up ’ , ’ she chuckles . |
| 13 | Once you lose sight of land , you may as well be in space . ’ |
| 14 | And the translations are so incredibly liberal , there may as well be no original text at all . |
| 15 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 16 | If Klepner 's gon na get his job he may as well do the spiel . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've had several more since this morning , I may as well tell you . ’ |
| 18 | May as well go to bed in a drunken stupor after dinner , same as the rest of them . |
| 19 | You may as well forget the idea of banning things . |
| 20 | Never think that you have blown your exercise schedule so you may as well not bother going back to it . |
| 21 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 22 | We may as well find out . |
| 23 | Infuriating it may be , but you may as well shrug your shoulders as the locals do and accept that these things are part and parcel of travel overseas . |
| 24 | May as well use it I thought . |
| 25 | One had to be guided by the judgement of ‘ the true ladies and gentlemen ’ , argued the Society , or else ‘ we may as well adopt the proprieties of Bolshevik Russia ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , since everyone 's giving speeches , I may as well take a turn , ’ he said , and it was at once apparent from his voice that he had had a good deal to drink . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If you are not using the swimfeeder as it should be used then you may as well tackle up with a link-leger and feed by hand . |
| 29 | Obviously , you need a heavy bomb to cast the distance , so you may as well use bolt-rig tactics that will take a great deal of sag out of that great length of line when you clip up to the rod . |
| 30 | Christopher Robson ( countertenor ) has recently been electrifying audiences with his performances of Arsamenes in Xerxes at the English National Opera , and when he opens his mouth on this recording he may as well be plugging us all into the mains . |