Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 3 | For example on page 198 , Mayella says she 's never kissed a grown man before and that it might as well be a nigger and after kissing him she says ‘ kiss me back , nigger ’ . |
| 4 | 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into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in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 . |
| 5 | Somebody in Whitehall has to be looking at something else , and it might as well be me . ’ |
| 6 | Eventually these jobs will have to go and it might as well be now . |
| 7 | Nearly half an inch fell this morning , but it may as well not have bothered . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not in Switzerland , but it might as well be . |
| 10 | Only a few miles , but it might as well be the other side of the galaxy . ’ |
| 11 | But it might as well not be , because we can never know what is determined . |
| 12 | But it might as well have been a million miles away . |
| 13 | This leads some to claim it for immediately after the return , but it can as well be immediately before the flight , and in any case it dates the change securely to the time around 480 . |