Example sentences of "it [vb mod] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one . |
| 2 | Evidently , if the design of text recognition systems is to be at all inspired , it may as well be by the best natural example available . |
| 3 | Nearly half an inch fell this morning , but it may as well not have bothered . |
| 4 | But the Government may feel that as long as it is going to extend VAT it may as well slap newspapers for 17.5 per cent . |
| 5 | If there 's a form the colour of which is irrelevant , it may as well be on the colour of the wallet . |
| 6 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
| 7 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 8 | Or if it can — there is a case for that too — it might as well be thought about first . |
| 9 | There is a nettle for a somebody — it might as well be the new Environment Secretary — to grasp . |
| 10 | If somebody 's got to benefit from inequality , her shrug suggests , it might as well be her . |
| 11 | I could not make out where they were going , and made several inquiries without getting any answers save in Gaelic ; it might as well have been Hindostani . |
| 12 | ‘ Montague ’ , an associate says , ‘ felt that if you are going to have a competitor , it might as well be a weak one . ’ . |
| 13 | Still , if you are going to admit the influence of another composer , it might as well be the greatest one of your day . |
| 14 | Bob guffaws : ‘ It might as well be a Pixies song ! |
| 15 | For the all the impact it has on the local political climate , it might as well be in Alaska . |
| 16 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 17 | CHAMPAGNE BILLECART SALMON ( Oddbins , £16.99 ) : If you 're going to drink the real stuff it might as well be the best . |
| 18 | Gingerly he reached out to touch it ; it might as well have been a physical part of his wife 's anatomy , like an ear or a finger . |
| 19 | But it might as well save its money if it is merely going to flow out of the country into the pockets and profits of foreign firms . |
| 20 | IT might as well rain until September — Carole King . |
| 21 | But we were losing and as someone had to get him off his backside I thought it might as well be me . ’ |
| 22 | Not in Switzerland , but it might as well be . |
| 23 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 24 | Some observers reckon Kodak 's business will be so poor in the wake of its lay-offs that it might as well depart Japan altogether . |
| 25 | It might as well go and play for Newcastle ! |
| 26 | As far as they were concerned , it might as well stop . |
| 27 | Only a few miles , but it might as well be the other side of the galaxy . ’ |
| 28 | In fact I considered if I was going to die it might as well be in my own quarters . |
| 29 | It might as well be under sedation . |
| 30 | After all , if I was going to die anyway , it might as well do some good . |