Example sentences of "might just as well " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Only Chapman lacked any easily identifiable and stereotypical presence ( his cantankerous military type , who would interrupt the more outrageous sketches with a testy ‘ this is silly ! ’ , might just as well , or even better , have been played by Cleese ) . |
| 4 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 5 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Time , these past 30 years , might just as well have stood still . |
| 10 | Might just as well bury yourself alive . ’ |
| 11 | He might just as well have stipulated long white trousers . |
| 12 | We might just as well grumble about Constable 's omission of tractors from his landscapes . |
| 13 | We might just as well say that the Holocaust was God punishing the Jews ! |
| 14 | This is the ultimate in man 's domination of a river , although many city rivers might just as well be piped . |
| 15 | From the point of view of policy , it might just as well not exist . |
| 16 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 17 | As for the idealistic school , they might just as well have gone to North Wales or Derbyshire . |
| 18 | MODERN methods of assessing the value of scientific research might just as well not exist as far as British policy makers are concerned . |
| 19 | ‘ You know perfectly well that I can persuade you , so you might just as well give in now with good grace . ’ |
| 20 | He might just as well not have bothered , for it was there still , it would be there for ever , unless one day they found how to cut memory out of the brain with a scalpel . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | To me , the whole process might just as well be magic . |
| 23 | She wrote , ‘ You might just as well throw that poor child on the compost heap . ’ |
| 24 | Precepts of holiness , he declared , might just as well be preached to a wolf as to a man , if man were naturally and inevitably wicked . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | You might just as well have sent him out naked round the privates . |
| 27 | We might just as well shut up shop . |
| 28 | Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘ Our Mother which art in Heaven ’ … . |
| 29 | 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 … . |
| 30 | 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 . |