Example sentences of "[vb mod] just as well have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Time , these past 30 years , might just as well have stood still . |
| 9 | He might just as well have stipulated long white trousers . |
| 10 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 11 | As for the idealistic school , they might just as well have gone to North Wales or Derbyshire . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | But surely it is possible that the women 's assessments might just as well have reflected their awareness of sex stereotypes and their consequent desire to fulfil ‘ normal ’ expectations that women talk ‘ better ’ . |
| 14 | You might just as well have sent him out naked round the privates . |
| 15 | Suppose he suggests that the Incarnation might just as well have taken a female as a male form , and the Second Person of the Trinity be as well called the Daughter as the Son … . |
| 16 | She did n't actually say , ‘ Please hurry up , oh please hurry up , ’ but she might just as well have done : her mouth twitched as if she were muttering it inwardly , her eyes kept darting to the clock on the mantelpiece and there were red , nervous spots on her cheeks . |
| 17 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 18 | Mind you , he paid , I 'll say that for him , but it might just as well have been her — the money was thrown down the drain all the same ! " |
| 19 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 20 | I might just as well have been Judd . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They might just as well have done , ’ she said despairingly . |
| 22 | They looked phoney , but only because they looked new ; once they had cracked and weathered and slumped a little , nobody would ever credit that they might just as well have been built as concrete and glass shoe-boxes . |
| 23 | When he brushed some hair away from her face he might just as well have placed his hand on her most intimate spot . |
| 24 | She might just as well have stuck a neon sign on her head , inviting him to make love to her . |
| 25 | He might just as well have branded her with the seal of his possession . |
| 26 | She might just as well have saved her breath , because he kissed her anyway . |
| 27 | She might just as well have been driven to the airport by taxi , Jenna mourned . |
| 28 | ‘ He might just as well have been ! ’ |
| 29 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
| 30 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |