Example sentences of "[adj] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 2 | Tom freely acknowledged this just as Terry acknowledged his earlier insensitivity . |
| 3 | I do n't mean this just as some vague metaphor . |
| 4 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 5 | It certainly seems probable that addictive disease has a genetic element although the strength of that genetic component may vary considerably from one individual to another just as the intensity of short sight or other conditions that are genetically linked may vary in different individuals . |
| 6 | This is my command , love one another just as I love you . |
| 7 | He who does what is right , is righteous just as he |
| 8 | ‘ What an idiot ! ’ cried Pétain , on learning at Verdun that a battalion commander , having received the order of alert just as the rations arrived , had ordered his men to depart forthwith on empty stomachs ; ‘ He does n't deserve to be a corporal . ’ |
| 9 | The blue-greens , therefore , flourish uncropped just as they did when they were the most advanced form of life anywhere in the world . |
| 10 | I made my exit as discreetly as possible just as his lordship , still on his feet , was embarking on a further point . |
| 11 | That just as you are making it possible to select conceptions that will result in the right sort of people , as you define them , and reject the potentially bad ones , so it would be possible to reject the good and retain the bad . |
| 12 | It needs to be emphasised , however , that just as the clergy 's specialist knowledge of theology , spirituality , worship and pastoral care is to be respected , so too are the musician 's particular skills and qualifications . |
| 13 | We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times . |
| 14 | For some reason she found that just as unnerving . |
| 15 | It was the not fault of my client , that just as the Visitor seemed to be gaining the trust of the young person who is the subject of this enquiry ( she was a child when the case was first brought to their attention as in need of care and protection but is now classed as a young person ) she was transferred because of area reorganisation undertaken in response to changes in government policy , and that the officer who took over the case was hospitalised shortly after she assumed her new duties . |
| 16 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 17 | Recognise that this is a form of self-importance — that everyone is perfect just as they are . |
| 18 | No I can honestly say that Two Weeks On , Two Weeks Off suits me fine just as long as he minds to cut his toe-nails … |
| 19 | She 's far too valuable just as she is , even if her sixth sense did n't mention Epping Forest until after our crime reporter did . |
| 20 | Miller had been forced to transplant some of these just as they were coming into flower , but by cutting off all the buds , placing them in a wet trench and watering continuously until they became established , he was able , in August and September to pick flowers ‘ as fair as those produced in June ’ . |
| 21 | He arrived early in the morning to break his fast just as the young woman I mentioned earlier was leaving . |
| 22 | Mirth is an escape from the humdrum just as the transcendent is an escape from the mundane . |
| 23 | If they were to set up their own company in America instead , and negotiate a distribution deal with an American major just as they had done with Island when first setting up Virgin — then that profit margin could be inflated from around 18 per cent to 80 per cent . |
| 24 | Now I know that God loves us all just as we are . |
| 25 | Have I decided to submit all this to the Prime Minister 's office as it stands , to lay it all just as it is before Francis Tite and let fate take its course ? |
| 26 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , both clubs went bust just as we were starting to draw a decent audience ! |
| 28 | Linigan 's goal later left the forlorn Chris Waddle and his Wednesday mates in tears as Wembley became a sea of red-and-white just as it had been after the same Coca-Cola Cup scoreline a month earlier . |
| 29 | She wanted to be left alone just as she was , wherever she was , but the people would not leave her alone . |
| 30 | By 1914 the terms of a possible compromise were emerging , by which Unionists would accept Home Rule and Liberals would agree to exclude Ulster ; argument continued over the exact size of an excluded Ulster and the length of time involved in exclusion , but the logic of the negotiations pointed to this settlement in 1914 just as it was to do in 1921–22 . |