Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | You know we ca n't we may just as well go . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | We might just as well grumble about Constable 's omission of tractors from his landscapes . |
4 | We might just as well say that the Holocaust was God punishing the Jews ! |
5 | We might just as well shut up shop . |
6 | Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘ Our Mother which art in Heaven ’ … . |
7 | ‘ We might just as well be somewhere else . ’ |
8 | We might just as well call it the Non-R RE model . |
9 | Got the money we might just as well |
10 | No well I feel in the long run it 's probably wasting money because erm we keep bodging it up which costs money , we might just as well see how much it is to get it and do it , and do it erm . |
11 | We say " true " , " correct " , so it is , etc. , but we could just as well reiterate the proposition concerned . |
12 | We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme . |
13 | So we can just as well imagine that all the charge is concentrated at the origin of the coordinate system . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |