Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb infin] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 2 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 3 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 4 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 5 | There are no screen credits at the beginnings of dreams to tell you what sort of film you are going to see , but there might as well have been in these nightmares , because the tenor , horror or guilt is excruciatingly present before the first scenes have even been played . |