Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] might [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You know perfectly well that I can persuade you , so you might just as well give in now with good grace . ’ |
| 4 | Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘ Our Mother which art in Heaven ’ … . |
| 5 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She tried to push him away , but she might just as well have tried to move the Campanile . |
| 10 | But he might just as well have been talking to himself . |
| 11 | Mind you , he paid , I 'll say that for him , but it might just as well have been her — the money was thrown down the drain all the same ! " |
| 12 | They happened to end up in Cork but it might just as well have been Hamburg or Paris or London , or America , as so many other Jews did . |
| 13 | This misconception about the requirements of effective verbal communication can have important consequences in that young children may not use their linguistic skills as effectively as they might either as speakers or as listeners . |