Example sentences of "just [adv] [adj] [conj] 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 Men may suffer just as much when a relationship fails , but they seem able to make a cleaner break .
3 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 .
4 A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands .
5 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 .
6 In fact , a man 's skin can be just as dry as a woman 's .
7 Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours .
8 But it would also be just as probable as a jump to any other biomorph in the land .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 . ’
12 Jacqueline 's weight dropped from 10 stone to just over 4 and a half stone by the time of her death on December 23rd last year .
13 My first experience of service with HM forces was when I was just over three and a half .
14 I 'm actually about just over ten and a half stone now .
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