Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] just [subord] " in BNC.

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1 From that moment Tess found she could whistle tunes to the birds just as Mrs d'Urberville wanted .
2 I entered the woods just as three mortar explosions occurred in quick succession , somewhere in the trees a short distance away .
3 If one of the dietary amino acids is made radioactive ( as in the experiment I described in Chapter 2 ) and fed to or injected into an animal , it is incorporated into the proteins just as its fellow , non-radioactive amino acids are , and the proteins become slightly radioactive in their turn by virtue of containing the radioactive amino acid .
4 Unless you 've done something awful , the courts wo n't deny you contact with the kids just because your wife does n't like it .
5 Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place .
6 In the centuries just before and just after the Conquest , handwriting comprised a mixture of styles and letter shapes , depending on the language used ( Latin , Anglo-Saxon , Norman French ) and the importance of the book or document being written .
7 ‘ Impossible — Wings Balsdon 's got the goons just where he wants them ’
8 People do n't reject Darwin 's book on the emotions just because it 's , it 's rather heavily tainted with Lamarckism .
9 Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived .
10 The colours just as he left them . ’
11 Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out .
12 It had reached the lights just as the amber changed to red and turned down the Sandwich road .
13 No need to neglect the chickens just because I 'm talking to Jin . ’
14 Flower vans should be mobilised countrywide and staff given the bouquets just when the queues are at their thickest .
15 Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way .
16 The French fabliau Boivin de Provins , for instance , treats the prostitutes just as one source of sexually desirable and available women , and laughs with the man who is able to con them into providing him with a whore for free .
17 She saw him in the wings just before she went on stage and she chose to ignore whatever had happened in the interval .
18 Whereas in the past there have been various pressure groups setting themselves up as having a special reason for being heard thanks to their scientific credentials , perhaps the wisest comment on this came from the professor who , while urging scientists to make their voices heard , also urged them not to make any special claims to knowledge or understanding of the issues just because they were scientists .
19 You 'll arrive to find they 've stuck the mikes just where you do n't want them .
20 Consequently the onus of distinguishing between the ‘ deserving ’ and the ‘ undeserving ’ poor tended to fall upon the officer dealing with the applicant in the fields just as it had fallen upon the relieving officer in the past .
21 This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally .
22 I had no intention then , or ever after , of joining any group or ‘ movement ’ and I therefore sidestepped the Vorticists just as I sidestepped both the Imagists and the Amygists .
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