Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education departments in the 1950s and 1960s , faced with rapidly rising school populations , were able to win the battle for funds locally just as the ministry did nationally . |
| 2 | The introduction of cheap plaits from China and Japan during the last quarter of the nineteenth century hit the industry hard just as fashion started to favour smaller hats and ones made from other materials . |
| 3 | Perhaps he was contemplating his own life with Vivien here just as , when he connected McKnight Kauffer 's death with a sense of " the void " , he was once again returning to his own feeling of emptiness which had played so large a part in his religious conversion . |
| 4 | Brigadier Canford admired the lightning reflexes , the way she adjusted to a not-very-easy pony in seconds and showed up the others as she ruthlessly shoved them out of the way and cat-and-mouse-whipped the ball away just as they were about to hit it . |
| 5 | ‘ Things here just as you found them , sir ? ’ |
| 6 | Okay , well shall I do windmills again just as |
| 7 | The miming drew the men together just as Miss D'Arcy 's tears drew the women into a quick companionship . |
| 8 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 9 | Sir David , knighted in 1982 , has swung his paper behind critical issues : it started campaigning on environmental issues a year ago just as the Conservatives switched tack . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , confusion reigned at Barnet yesterday just as the club seemed to have got over its recent problems . |