Example sentences of "just as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unmoving , he seemed part of the very landscape he stood in , his eyes deep and clear as the blue sea before him , his shoulder-length hair just as golden as the sun burning far above in an azure sky . |
| 2 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
| 3 | The fourth reason why the Labour party 's hypocrisy and deceit on unemployment is incredible is that the Labour party — I shall not talk about its Common Market Safeguards Committee , of which eight members of the Shadow Cabinet are still members — and the Opposition Front Bench are just as committed as the Government to membership of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 4 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
| 5 | ‘ I wanted to express what a simple thing death and burial is , just as simple as the falling of a leaf -just a bit of earth dug up — a wooden cross … . |
| 6 | Men may suffer just as much when a relationship fails , but they seem able to make a cleaner break . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In this way , the original formulation contributes to the overall relevance just as much as the reformulation does . |
| 9 | Then , there is the real possibility that a serious defeat for the government could result in a general election and , under the British system , the opposition , just as much as the government , would prefer this to happen at a time favourable to themselves . |
| 10 | For the province will be affected by the next Labour government 's policies just as much as the rest of the UK . |
| 11 | The adult seems to enjoy the experience just as much as the baby does . |
| 12 | It is probable that , for a large part of our lives , little emphasis was placed on the use of imagination , colour and rhythm and yet we were all born with the potential to use our right brain just as much as the left . |
| 13 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 14 | So the impact of nineteen twenty five to seven on the Communist Party and on the revolution which it made in nineteen forty nine is just as great as the impact had been on the Kuomintang and nationalist China . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I went along to Brigade H.Q The Officers and other ranks were looking just as knackered as the rest of us out in the orchard . |
| 18 | But this kind of determinism ( one denying the mediating social role of culture ) is just as misleading as the kind offered by feminists or Marxists . |
| 19 | Many industry specialists claim that a new international standard called MPEG-2 , quietly agreed in April , could be just as influential as the result of the FCC competition . |
| 20 | They are just as real as the class relations to which Marxists give such prominence or to the state bureaucracies which Weberians emphasise . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is just as unbelievable that the Ministry of Defence apparently does not know what happened to them afterwards , what careers they followed . |
| 23 | In fact , a man 's skin can be just as dry as a woman 's . |
| 24 | Indeed it would be just as probable as a jump from insect to one of its immediate neighbours . |
| 25 | But it would also be just as probable as a jump to any other biomorph in the land . |
| 26 | I 'd say she 's a bit of a fanatic , and just as naive as the rest of them . |
| 27 | He found the number eighty-two close to the top of the street , looking just as derelict as the rest of the tenements on the shabby street . |
| 28 | The author himself can be just as candid when the spirit moves him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Just as significant as the legacy of the Third Reich was the division of Germany brought by the occupation . |