Example sentences of "[conj] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether this ebullient novel of 1923 is to be considered as a parody or just as a light-hearted analogue of The Prisoner of Zenda , the resemblances are too close to be mere coincidence . |
| 2 | He saw that just as a knowledge of atoms and molecules is essential for the progress of chemistry , it is also essential for chemistry student . |
| 3 | It could well be useful in certain respiratory conditions he thought , but there was a danger that just as a candle burns out much quicker in oxygen , one might ‘ live out too fast ’ . |
| 4 | So it seems likely that just as a youngster does not need to learn to be afraid or to feel secure , they also respond instinctively from birth to the underlying mood of the call — like the predatory roar of a lion , the angry bellow of an enraged bull , the contented moo of a grazing cow or the eminently social bleatings of sheep , keeping the flock together . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) There is a tradition in Austrian and German philosophy which maintains that just as a judgement can be true or false , so can an emotional attitude be correct or incorrect . |
| 6 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 7 | In fact , the target turned out to be something totally different , although just as an attractive find . |
| 8 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 9 | And just as those who are young feel the need to talk about and prepare for earlier important events , such as their wedding , or their children 's christenings , it is quite normal and not at all macabre for some old people to want to look ahead and plan for the ritual and display of family love and unity that will take place on the day of their departure from this world . |
| 10 | And that goes back to what I said earlier , in that we just do n't see ourselves working internally , in meetings , in negotiations and report binding , with erm , with other officer 's , we see ourselves as a vocal point to get in information out , to , to people , erm and working with people , erm , and that 's erm again a major part of the work we do and just as an example of something that we provide , this is erm , this is the hidden divide , the bulletin of Harlow 's Anti Poverty Strategy Group , this is the latest edition , and it 's just an update on erm impact of eh living in Britain in nineteen ninety one today , the people who are on low income , but we , we 've produced that quarterly , erm , but there , we produce loads of leaflets , were always producing leaflets , and basically if there 's a major piece of legislation there be , there be something worth getting use on it . |
| 11 | The nurse summoned a doctor in alarm , and just as a sedative was about to be given , Marek began to scream . |
| 12 | we would n't object yes , it was very you know , the emphasis was very different and just as the you know the emphasis on , on the handover erm , he wrote down that we would be happy to stand down and in fact what we said was we |
| 13 | And just as a bulldozer began clearing the coal , another demonstration of anger was taking shape at the unlikely venue of Cheltenham ; a town far removed from collieries and pits , but nevertheless a hotbed of outrage . |
| 14 | They reflect money balances and just as a mirror image shows everything literally as a mirror image , everything is the opposite way round , so too are the balances in the mirror accounts in relation to the balances in the NOSTRO and VOSTRO accounts . |
| 15 | And just as everybody who looked to that serpent on the pole was healed , so I am gon na be lifted up on a cross and everybody who looks in faith to me , and in obedience receives my gift of forgiveness , they will be saved ! |
| 16 | But just as a tiny dose of poison is sometimes the best antidote to complete poisoning ( though too much kills ) , so a modest dose of doubt — limited , temporary and constructively used — can be an excellent preventative of unbelief ( though excessive doubt is fatal here too ) . |
| 17 | I 'm going to be deleting an application called Legato ; not because I hate it , but just as a demonstration . |
| 18 | But just as a thought for you since the school 's are involved and since children are involved in a number of these things perhaps it has been tried I do n't know erm you might actually be able to get a more regular input not only from the children and their but also from their par ents by perhaps involving or asking the schools to become involved in the production of the programme . |
| 19 | I laughed not scornfully or anything , but just as if it was a joke which I 'd only half got . |
| 20 | But just as a deeply flawed system of classification was operated for many years before the 1981 Education Act by professionals who openly disavowed it , so it is probable that levels of attainment will be used in most decisions about children who experience difficulties . |
| 21 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 22 | Say I 'm sure it wo n't be necessary , but just as a precaution . |
| 23 | ‘ Listen to this , ’ he said , and read a passage : ‘ I was seeing a colleague from work , but just as a friend , because I need someone to talk to . |
| 24 | That because I 've used those before not for golfing or anything like that but just as a general map of reference or |
| 25 | But just as a business can not go on year after year ignoring a fall in cash flow … so too the Government can not keep on running up debt in the hope that recovery will solve our problems . |
| 26 | He is not a coach or a trainer who sits the game out , never plays it , but just as a theoretical tactician . |
| 27 | Further , such a view provides a nice parallel with semantics : for just as a semantic theory is concerned , say , with the recursive assignment of truth conditions to well-formed formulae , so pragmatics is concerned with the recursive assignment of appropriateness conditions to the same set of sentences with their semantic interpretations In other words , a pragmatic theory should in principle predict for each and every well-formed sentence of a language , on a particular semantic reading , the set of contexts in which it would be appropriate . |