Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] as [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For God 's sake , the silly little twinkle might as well have majored in handwriting or media studies ! ’ |
| 3 | That prayer might as well have been couched in his own patois . |
| 4 | Of course at this stage , rather than pay the cancellation charge , the buyer might as well take delivery . |
| 5 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | He began by arguing that adaptive radiation in the animal kingdom produces diversity and specialization , but that such a process may as commonly entail a structural atrophy , as in the case of parasites or cave fish , as it does some directional increase in complexity . |
| 8 | From our point of view the conference may as well have been organised by the Labour Party . |
| 9 | Radio 5 and Manchester Of The Day may as well move their studios to Old Trafford . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I realised that , if I was going to have to break with her , the process of rejection might as well get started right away . |
| 16 | The system may as well do it , and present the operator with each applicant within the vacancy in turn in numerical order . |
| 17 | ‘ Corbett , you and your wide-eyed servant may as well sit . |
| 18 | But as far as the Prince 's speech was concerned the couple might as well have been strangers . |
| 19 | He wandered restlessly about , and decided that the lie might as well become the truth . |
| 20 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 21 | For secondary school pupils , database creation may as yet mean very little outside the computer studies department but , on encountering some examples of databases in S1/S2 , they may remember similar exercises with football terms or animals in primary school . |
| 22 | The businessman might as well go off and start his own photographic processor , print shop , or plumbing company but for the initial advice on how to run the organisation . |