Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that vegetable blue also must then as now have had a natural home ? |
| 2 | I feel I 've lost everything ; that I may just as well go home . ’ |
| 3 | Taken together , they form something much more important : street architecture , which may just as well be a delightful jumble as the carefully planned composition of a Georgian terrace . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country . |
| 6 | An interpretation which sees postmodernist organization as simply another form of totalitarianism may just as well turn out to be appropriate as one which celebrates its pluralism . |
| 7 | You know we ca n't we may just as well go . |
| 8 | Well I was gon na paper out and start cutting out some faces I think cos I mean a I may just as well I mean I was quite happy to let Paul help me out but then |
| 9 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 10 | He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’ |
| 11 | Only Chapman lacked any easily identifiable and stereotypical presence ( his cantankerous military type , who would interrupt the more outrageous sketches with a testy ‘ this is silly ! ’ , might just as well , or even better , have been played by Cleese ) . |
| 12 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 13 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 14 | She looked so competent and self-assured , so hard , so distant from his own thought and feeling that she might just as well have been a stranger , passing by without a glance in the street . |
| 15 | Glen Webbe , of international fame and a target for League clubs , might just as well have stayed home decorating his Christmas tree for what he was called on to do . |
| 16 | Wednesday 's match marked the Dutch football federation 's centenary , although considering the side Holland were forced to field , Queen Beatrix might just as well have stayed at home and sent the centenarians a congratulatory telegram . |
| 17 | Time , these past 30 years , might just as well have stood still . |
| 18 | Might just as well bury yourself alive . ’ |
| 19 | He might just as well have stipulated long white trousers . |
| 20 | We might just as well grumble about Constable 's omission of tractors from his landscapes . |
| 21 | We might just as well say that the Holocaust was God punishing the Jews ! |
| 22 | This is the ultimate in man 's domination of a river , although many city rivers might just as well be piped . |
| 23 | From the point of view of policy , it might just as well not exist . |
| 24 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 25 | As for the idealistic school , they might just as well have gone to North Wales or Derbyshire . |
| 26 | MODERN methods of assessing the value of scientific research might just as well not exist as far as British policy makers are concerned . |
| 27 | ‘ You know perfectly well that I can persuade you , so you might just as well give in now with good grace . ’ |
| 28 | He might just as well not have bothered , for it was there still , it would be there for ever , unless one day they found how to cut memory out of the brain with a scalpel . |
| 29 | ‘ By his assurance , condescension , ease of posture and conversational initiative , ’ said a Times editorial , ‘ Mr Kennedy might just as well have been a bishop testing a candidate for ordination . ’ |
| 30 | To me , the whole process might just as well be magic . |