Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] just as well " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shrub rose may be a true species , pure and simple , it may be ancient , or it can just as well be a highly cross-bred product of more recent times . |
| 2 | I feel I 've lost everything ; that I may just as well go home . ’ |
| 3 | My mother and my best friend , both of whom believed that I could just as well have a bath at home , came with me . |
| 4 | She looked so competent and self-assured , so hard , so distant from his own thought and feeling that she might just as well have been a stranger , passing by without a glance in the street . |
| 5 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 6 | ‘ You know perfectly well that I can persuade you , so you might just as well give in now with good grace . ’ |
| 7 | Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘ Our Mother which art in Heaven ’ … . |
| 8 | In other words , the most likely occasions for associative use of the word to qualify what is in fact a performance from the professional acrobat 's repertoire — as when we are confronted by the sight of a lady standing on a man 's shoulders and juggling with Indian clubs — would be occasions when it is very likely that we can just as well describe the actions as acrobatic in their own right ; and on the other hand , ascriptive use of the word is likely to be rather rare except , precisely , in those circumstances where professional acrobats form part of the context , so that an associative use would be equally justified . |
| 9 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 10 | They looked phoney , but only because they looked new ; once they had cracked and weathered and slumped a little , nobody would ever credit that they might just as well have been built as concrete and glass shoe-boxes . |
| 11 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 12 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |
| 13 | She did n't actually say , ‘ Please hurry up , oh please hurry up , ’ but she might just as well have done : her mouth twitched as if she were muttering it inwardly , her eyes kept darting to the clock on the mantelpiece and there were red , nervous spots on her cheeks . |
| 14 | She tried to push him away , but she might just as well have tried to move the Campanile . |
| 15 | We say " true " , " correct " , so it is , etc. , but we could just as well reiterate the proposition concerned . |
| 16 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
| 17 | Mind you , he paid , I 'll say that for him , but it might just as well have been her — the money was thrown down the drain all the same ! " |
| 18 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 19 | Cos this happens to be a camera but it could just as well be er an electric toaster , or any , any inanimate object taken er , in this fashion , and the thing you 've got to do if you take a photograph of an inanimate object er , like this , is to light it correctly , er it 's got to show all the erm , detail finely , and it 's got to have good quality in the printing . |
| 20 | It may seem that the above methods are too time-consuming when one could just as well take every nth name from the list for one 's sample . |