Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four walls of the cell might as well be the wooden sides of a coffin . |
| 2 | But 10,000 Maniacs might as well have added the sound of fishing slapping each other , so irrelevant is the instrumentation . |
| 3 | In fact , if the answers given by 40 per cent of women quizzed for a new survey are anything to go by , the EC president might as well Jacques it in … |
| 4 | In a cutting reference to Rovers ' multi-millionaire chairman , he scoffed : ‘ Jack Walker might as well buy Walker 's Crisps before he gets Roy Keane . |
| 5 | As a student wizard Rincewind had never achieved high marks in precognition , but now unused circuits in his brain were throbbing and the future might as well have been engraved in bright colours on his eyeballs . |
| 6 | For God 's sake , the silly little twinkle might as well have majored in handwriting or media studies ! ’ |
| 7 | The other dealt with weights and seesaws , but forget that balance on a seesaw is governed by weight multiplied by distance from the pivot : in fact for a rigid body the entire weight might as well be concentrated at the body 's centre of gravity , so there 's no way of discriminating head weight from body weight like this . |
| 8 | Darwin , on the other hand felt that if bodies could evolve from one form to the other , therefore the mind could as well , though he freely admitted that he had no ideas concerning the essential nature of mind itself , nor even of life . |
| 9 | I 've enjoyed it and I 'm sure my readers will as well . |
| 10 | George and Ringo sided with John and Klein launched into a ruthless purge , clearing out the parasites and the dead wood — but consigning any trace of idealism to the trash can as well . |
| 11 | That prayer might as well have been couched in his own patois . |
| 12 | Of course at this stage , rather than pay the cancellation charge , the buyer might as well take delivery . |
| 13 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 14 | Li Yuan might as well try to harness Change itself as try to force the boy 's talents to conform to the needs of State . |
| 15 | ‘ And as for the Vancouver race , ’ she went on blithely , ‘ Laurentide Ice might as well melt right now , but Sparrowgrass and Voting Right are both in with a good chance . |
| 16 | But Menzies Campbell , Liberal Democrat MP for North-East Fife , warned : ‘ If the submarine refit goes to Devonport and not Rosyth , the Tory Party in Scotland might as well go into receivership . ’ |
| 17 | He began by arguing that adaptive radiation in the animal kingdom produces diversity and specialization , but that such a process may as commonly entail a structural atrophy , as in the case of parasites or cave fish , as it does some directional increase in complexity . |
| 18 | From our point of view the conference may as well have been organised by the Labour Party . |
| 19 | Those who want equal time for creation science in biology classes might as well make similar demands for Flat Earth theory in astronomy classes . |
| 20 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 21 | This eruption could as well be termed Peleean as Plinian , for part of the force of the great eruption of 1956 was expended in powerful nuees which swept down the flanks of the volcano with terrific force . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Radio 5 and Manchester Of The Day may as well move their studios to Old Trafford . |
| 24 | Whether Kathleen remembered the list of requirements or not , things might as well be got ready , the sorting out begun . |
| 25 | There had been no real objective , except a vague idea that if conditions were good Hvannadalshnúkur might as well be climbed . |
| 26 | The rabbit might as well have been stuffed for all the movement it made , and I could see that it definitely was staring right at me , its little eyes not blinking , its tiny nose not sniffing , its ears untwitched . |
| 27 | So I said no I said , well I 've put the phone number as well and I said it might as well , stuff might as well come straight here . |
| 28 | If that 's how it is to be here the BBC might as well change its motto to ’ Anything for a quiet life ’ . |
| 29 | When Mrs Grandison had rejoined them it was still not quite half-past two , but Mark came in to say that as everybody was already waiting in the hall and it would be difficult to restrain them from buying things much longer , the bazaar might as well be opened immediately . |
| 30 | It is not chemically necessary that a particular hormone has a particular effect — for example , that adrenalin produces bodily changes associated with anger and fear : as far as chemistry is concerned , adrenalin could as well have evolved as a tranquillizer . |