Example sentences of "[vb mod] just as well [be] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 This is the ultimate in man 's domination of a river , although many city rivers might just as well be piped .
4 To me , the whole process might just as well be magic .
5 Precepts of holiness , he declared , might just as well be preached to a wolf as to a man , if man were naturally and inevitably wicked .
6 But now she might just as well be living with Mrs Jackson ! .
7 Archaeologists have a clear responsibility : until the information contained in those records is made available to other archaeologists , and to the general public , the excavation is not complete : the information is still as inaccessible as if the site had never been excavated , and the records themselves might just as well be buried .
8 ‘ We might just as well be somewhere else . ’
9 And , with no time left , it might just as well be forty .
10 It is necessary for the theory that they should , for otherwise poisonous prey might just as well be dull as brightly coloured .
11 The same might just as well be true , however , of unmarried cohabiting couples and of couples who do not cohabit .
12 they might be out of the divisional area but you , they might just as well be for the amount of you 're spending on them .
13 In which case she might just as well be punctual for their mutually unwelcome assignation , rather than give him cause for further sarcasm at her expense !
14 I might just as well be a boy for all the interest you take in me as — as a woman ! ’
15 And she says might just as well be with the kids like so .
16 It is not because they are rightists ( they could just as well be leftists ) but because they want to capture the centre not for the gospel but for a ‘ Holy America ’ .
17 This could just as well be art as social work or joining a religious movement .
18 Yet , on the other hand , it could just as well be argued that many people may be called Balak , and " king of Moab " specifies which one is meant .
19 You can also take the train : a mini-train , billed as Europe 's highest small railway ( it could just as well be smallest high railway ) , which coils for no less than ten very lofty , lonely kilometres around the spurs of rock to a distant terminus from which you can walk to the Lac d'Artouste , nearly 200 acres of it , in a stonily unforgiving ring of granite mountains .
20 Many of the characteristics of the postwar period which we associate with Fordism , for example , high levels of military spending or private consumption , could just as well be explained in terms of the political institutions which shaped the Fordist era .
21 The actual choice of routes through the dilemma is irrelevant and could just as well be decided by the toss of a coin .
22 When modern social anthropologists write about " primitive " peoples it is for want of a better vocabulary ; they could just as well be writing about " other " peoples .
23 Cos this happens to be a camera but it could just as well be er an electric toaster , or any , any inanimate object taken er , in this fashion , and the thing you 've got to do if you take a photograph of an inanimate object er , like this , is to light it correctly , er it 's got to show all the erm , detail finely , and it 's got to have good quality in the printing .
24 Gullibility and greed are charges that can just as well be flung back at the life companies .
25 A shrub rose may be a true species , pure and simple , it may be ancient , or it can just as well be a highly cross-bred product of more recent times .
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