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 . |