Example sentences of "just as [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
2 | But it is difficult to measure the effort in military and social co-ordination which such isolated outposts must have required : they were a liability just as much as a help . |
3 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
4 | Once agreement is reached , the settlement is just as final as a judgment and , unless the agreement has been improperly procured , the issues of fact and law raised in the original claim may not be the subject of further litigation . |
5 | In fact , a man 's skin can be just as dry as a woman 's . |
6 | Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours . |
7 | But it would also be just as probable as a jump to any other biomorph in the land . |
8 | The Bingo of the housewife or pensioner certainly has its social value but if the relation-ship is addictive even this can become just as consuming as a Poker school or greyhound race . |
9 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
10 | In the case of humans — to the physical factors or the environment , the ideological environment must be added , because a idea is just as valid as a kick in the teeth ; ideas are actually more important stimuli to the nervous system than are other types of stimuli ; ideas are , or induce , emotions that evoke energy in the nervous system . ’ |