Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [conj] well " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four walls of the cell might as well be the wooden sides of a coffin . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For God 's sake , the silly little twinkle might as well have majored in handwriting or media studies ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That prayer might as well have been couched in his own patois . |
| 9 | Of course at this stage , rather than pay the cancellation charge , the buyer might as well take delivery . |
| 10 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | From our point of view the conference may as well have been organised by the Labour Party . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Radio 5 and Manchester Of The Day may as well move their studios to Old Trafford . |
| 17 | There had been no real objective , except a vague idea that if conditions were good Hvannadalshnúkur might as well be climbed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If they kept to themselves , the whole northern end of the area might as well be written off . |
| 23 | If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary . |
| 24 | But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction . |
| 25 | He had it then , as clear as a map of a well-charted route unfolded on the captain 's table , what lay in store for him and for the settlement ; though the islanders had not burned wet leaves and swelled white smoke into a pillar of cloud to issue a warning , the signal might as well have been as clear . |
| 26 | The debate might as well not have taken place , so far as the further development of both sciences is concerned . |
| 27 | I realised that , if I was going to have to break with her , the process of rejection might as well get started right away . |
| 28 | Council spending might as well be another foreign language to younger pupils at Pitteville School at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire , but decisions taken by county politicians at tomorrow 's crucial budget meeting could effect every school in the county . |
| 29 | Road is there 's the country is there 's , so the road might as well be there 's . |
| 30 | If this phase difference is negligibly small , say , less than a few degrees , then the line may as well be represented in terms of lumped components corresponding to the total series and parallel impedances . |