Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] just as well be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might just as well be a boy for all the interest you take in me as — as a woman ! ’ |
| 2 | But now she might just as well be living with Mrs Jackson ! . |
| 3 | In which case she might just as well be punctual for their mutually unwelcome assignation , rather than give him cause for further sarcasm at her expense ! |
| 4 | ‘ We might just as well be somewhere else . ’ |
| 5 | they might be out of the divisional area but you , they might just as well be for the amount of you 're spending on them . |
| 6 | It is not because they are rightists ( they could just as well be leftists ) but because they want to capture the centre not for the gospel but for a ‘ Holy America ’ . |
| 7 | When modern social anthropologists write about " primitive " peoples it is for want of a better vocabulary ; they could just as well be writing about " other " peoples . |
| 8 | He may just as well be a decision-maker , one who can foresee what decisions he will have to make , and what may happen as a result of them . |
| 9 | And , with no time left , it might just as well be forty . |
| 10 | Yet , on the other hand , it could just as well be argued that many people may be called Balak , and " king of Moab " specifies which one is meant . |
| 11 | You can also take the train : a mini-train , billed as Europe 's highest small railway ( it could just as well be smallest high railway ) , which coils for no less than ten very lofty , lonely kilometres around the spurs of rock to a distant terminus from which you can walk to the Lac d'Artouste , nearly 200 acres of it , in a stonily unforgiving ring of granite mountains . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |