Example sentences of "[vb mod] just as well [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel I 've lost everything ; that I may just as well go home . ’ |
| 2 | You know we ca n't we may just as well go . |
| 3 | The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Luiza and Freddi have n't worked all winter , so feel they might just as well rent out their Salzburg apartment and come up here to wait for rehearsals to begin . |
| 6 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
| 7 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 8 | " In any case you might just as well relieve your mind by talking the matter over . |
| 9 | She might just as well conserve her energy . |
| 10 | It gave Scarlet the impression that she had grown very old and from now on might just as well go round in her shroud . |
| 11 | I do not believe , though many readers are convinced of it , that this is what finally attracts them , otherwise they might just as well do a crossword puzzle . |
| 12 | She wrote , ‘ You might just as well throw that poor child on the compost heap . ’ |
| 13 | Might just as well walk from Croydon . |
| 14 | If the subordinate has to be so elaborately controlled the supervisor might just as well undertake the task . |
| 15 | Th the fire , the those feet are catching in that it 's not being used you might just as well switch it off . |
| 16 | ‘ You know perfectly well that I can persuade you , so you might just as well give in now with good grace . ’ |
| 17 | You might just as well give it to Adolf Hitler frankly . " |
| 18 | Local facilities such as libraries , swimming pools , tennis courts , further education classes , bingo , cinemas , pubs , working men 's clubs , parks , concerts and church services are , in theory , for the use of everyone , and if people with mental disorder live day in and day out inside the confines of a suburban house and never use such local facilities or participate in the life of the community , they might just as well remain behind the walls of an institution . |
| 19 | Might just as well bury yourself alive . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Time , these past 30 years , might just as well have stood still . |
| 27 | He might just as well have stipulated long white trousers . |
| 28 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 29 | As for the idealistic school , they might just as well have gone to North Wales or Derbyshire . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |