Example sentences of "they [vb mod] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 2 | As for the idealistic school , they might just as well have gone to North Wales or Derbyshire . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ They might just as well have done , ’ she said despairingly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |