Example sentences of "[was/were] just as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would show that the behaviour of humans was governed by principles of cause and effect which were just as invariable as the behaviour of matter , the subject of the natural sciences . |
| 2 | The poor were just as stupid as the rich ; he had only contempt for both of them . |
| 3 | And the scars of Labour ministers were just as plentiful as the ones on Tory backs . |
| 4 | Dennis Mather , James 's uncle , urged the public to contain their anger , saying that the family were just as enraged as the people of the surrounding area . |
| 5 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 6 | Their return to Leith on the ‘ Saint Andrew ’ was just as uncomfortable as the journey out and Corbett was only too pleased to feel the firm ground of the quayside beneath him . |
| 7 | It was just as good as the first Home Alone . |
| 8 | The gay scene was pubs and clubs full of role-playing lesbians into ‘ butch ’ or ‘ femme ’ and was just as alienating as the straight world . |
| 9 | The road was just as wide as the Tri-Pacer , and fearing a truck would not see us if we pulled off to the side , we left the aircraft sitting in the middle of the road . |
| 10 | Ferdinand 's rejection of all compromise , as Wellesley saw , was just as alarming as the ‘ Republican Principles ’ which had made the constitution of 1812 a political edifice which no king could inhabit with dignity . |
| 11 | Recall that in Halliday 's analysis of Lok 's language , the rarity of certain categories ( eg transitive verbs ) was just as important as the high frequency of others : the most striking features of Lok 's language were its limitations . |
| 12 | The theme which Dodd points to was just as common when the 1904 regulations were established . |
| 13 | The next year the eight to the final year , there 's sixteen the next year until we were getting that the two year course was just as big as the old one year course . |