Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [modal v] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course at this stage , rather than pay the cancellation charge , the buyer might as well take delivery . |
| 2 | Darwin , on the other hand felt that if bodies could evolve from one form to the other , therefore the mind could as well , though he freely admitted that he had no ideas concerning the essential nature of mind itself , nor even of life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | George and Ringo sided with John and Klein launched into a ruthless purge , clearing out the parasites and the dead wood — but consigning any trace of idealism to the trash can as well . |
| 5 | The four walls of the cell might as well be the wooden sides of a coffin . |
| 6 | From our point of view the conference may as well have been organised by the Labour Party . |
| 7 | When Mrs Grandison had rejoined them it was still not quite half-past two , but Mark came in to say that as everybody was already waiting in the hall and it would be difficult to restrain them from buying things much longer , the bazaar might as well be opened immediately . |
| 8 | 7.6.2 Subject to the provisions of clauses 7.6.3 and 7.6.4 the Landlord shall as soon as the Permissions have been obtained or immediately where no Permissions are required apply all money received in respect of such insurance ( except sums in respect of loss of Rent ) in rebuilding or reinstating the Premises or the Retained Parts so destroyed or damaged [ making up any difference between the cost of rebuilding and reinstating and the money received out of the Landlord 's own money ] It is important to include the words in square brackets in order to ensure that the damaged or destroyed premises are reinstated . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Radio 5 and Manchester Of The Day may as well move their studios to Old Trafford . |
| 11 | But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction . |
| 12 | If they kept to themselves , the whole northern end of the area might as well be written off . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The debate might as well not have taken place , so far as the further development of both sciences is concerned . |
| 15 | Road is there 's the country is there 's , so the road might as well be there 's . |
| 16 | If this phase difference is negligibly small , say , less than a few degrees , then the line may as well be represented in terms of lumped components corresponding to the total series and parallel impedances . |
| 17 | But as far as the Prince 's speech was concerned the couple might as well have been strangers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He wandered restlessly about , and decided that the lie might as well become the truth . |
| 20 | The system may as well do it , and present the operator with each applicant within the vacancy in turn in numerical order . |
| 21 | 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 . |