Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [conj] well [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one . |
| 2 | Evidently , if the design of text recognition systems is to be at all inspired , it may as well be by the best natural example available . |
| 3 | If there 's a form the colour of which is irrelevant , it may as well be on the colour of the wallet . |
| 4 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
| 5 | Or if it can — there is a case for that too — it might as well be thought about first . |
| 6 | There is a nettle for a somebody — it might as well be the new Environment Secretary — to grasp . |
| 7 | If somebody 's got to benefit from inequality , her shrug suggests , it might as well be her . |
| 8 | ‘ Montague ’ , an associate says , ‘ felt that if you are going to have a competitor , it might as well be a weak one . ’ . |
| 9 | Still , if you are going to admit the influence of another composer , it might as well be the greatest one of your day . |
| 10 | Bob guffaws : ‘ It might as well be a Pixies song ! |
| 11 | For the all the impact it has on the local political climate , it might as well be in Alaska . |
| 12 | CHAMPAGNE BILLECART SALMON ( Oddbins , £16.99 ) : If you 're going to drink the real stuff it might as well be the best . |
| 13 | But we were losing and as someone had to get him off his backside I thought it might as well be me . ’ |
| 14 | Not in Switzerland , but it might as well be . |
| 15 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 16 | Only a few miles , but it might as well be the other side of the galaxy . ’ |
| 17 | In fact I considered if I was going to die it might as well be in my own quarters . |
| 18 | It might as well be under sedation . |
| 19 | She thought it might as well be Betty and sat down by Finn , because then Betty , even if displeased at her laziness , could not fail to commend her courtesy . |
| 20 | ‘ It might as well be , ’ C'zinsit said . |
| 21 | It was the traditional joke , someone always made it , it might as well be him now , although laughter was far from both of them . |
| 22 | Somebody in Whitehall has to be looking at something else , and it might as well be me . ’ |
| 23 | Someone has to make it , and the women just sit smiling and nodding so it might as well be them . |
| 24 | Eventually these jobs will have to go and it might as well be now . |
| 25 | ‘ I could have made it something piddling , like embezzling the mess funds , but I thought it might as well be , you know , melodramatic . ’ |
| 26 | And frankly it might as well be on the moon in terms of its accessibility to the area of search . |
| 27 | I mean it might as well be perhaps , I do n't know , Lambeth council in the nineteen-seventies that they are representing , along with John Major there . |
| 28 | ‘ Aye , it might as well be , Brother , ’ Cranston replied through his muffler . |
| 29 | For example on page 198 , Mayella says she 's never kissed a grown man before and that it might as well be a nigger and after kissing him she says ‘ kiss me back , nigger ’ . |
| 30 | Well it might as well be outside his as somebody else 's |