Example sentences of "just as well [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to study electromagnetic theory without ever mentioning the word electron , but since it has become such a household word and is used so often we can just as well make use of it . |
| 2 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
| 3 | We say " true " , " correct " , so it is , etc. , but we could just as well reiterate the proposition concerned . |
| 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 | If the subordinate has to be so elaborately controlled the supervisor might just as well undertake the task . |
| 6 | She wrote , ‘ You might just as well throw that poor child on the compost heap . ’ |
| 7 | Might just as well walk from Croydon . |
| 8 | As the brigade would probably simply knock down your door , you could just as well do it yourself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She might just as well conserve her energy . |
| 11 | Th the fire , the those feet are catching in that it 's not being used you might just as well switch it off . |
| 12 | Emulating private firms could just as well mean collusion , the formation of oligopolies , price rings and cartels , or the withholding of information from consumers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 15 | I feel I 've lost everything ; that I may just as well go home . ’ |
| 16 | It gave Scarlet the impression that she had grown very old and from now on might just as well go round in her shroud . |
| 17 | You know we ca n't we may just as well go . |
| 18 | So I could just as well go and have a bath . |
| 19 | " In any case you might just as well relieve your mind by talking the matter over . |
| 20 | ‘ You know perfectly well that I can persuade you , so you might just as well give in now with good grace . ’ |
| 21 | You might just as well give it to Adolf Hitler frankly . " |
| 22 | Industrial or hospital steel trolleys could just as well store stereo , files , tv , video , sewing or hobby equipment . |
| 23 | I might just as well pack up and go if you ca n't even listen to things reasonably ! ’ |
| 24 | I mean to my mind you might just as well spend your money on , what are you doing idiot , on a well made piece of furniture today like some of those we 've seen in , in |
| 25 | In other words , the most likely occasions for associative use of the word to qualify what is in fact a performance from the professional acrobat 's repertoire — as when we are confronted by the sight of a lady standing on a man 's shoulders and juggling with Indian clubs — would be occasions when it is very likely that we can just as well describe the actions as acrobatic in their own right ; and on the other hand , ascriptive use of the word is likely to be rather rare except , precisely , in those circumstances where professional acrobats form part of the context , so that an associative use would be equally justified . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 29 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 30 | 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 . |