Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb mod] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ In the year ahead , sales of gilts will as usual form the bedrock of the funding programme . |
| 3 | I realised that , if I was going to have to break with her , the process of rejection might as well get started right away . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ A woman without children might as well not be born , ’ said Mrs Khalid . |