Example sentences of "[adj] just as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heart racing , she felt for the dangling cord and flooded the room with light just as the door closed quietly . |
| 2 | Mirth is an escape from the humdrum just as the transcendent is an escape from the mundane . |
| 3 | This would be the most natural way of questioning any of the predicative adjectives in ( 30 ) — and could be used just as well for the second and third cases of ( 28 ) : ( 30 ) his accountant was sensible Helen 's profile is striking the new coin is octagonal Just as the contrast between how ? and which ? reflects the contrast of structural position between postnominal attributive and predicate qualifier , so the contrast of question words between how ? and what ? or what … like ? allows us to infer that an adjective in ordinary predicative position is not a plausible origin for the predicate qualifier . |
| 4 | We launched our offensive just as the meeting was supposed to have started . |
| 5 | She reached the other side unscathed just as the man gave a grunt of triumph and twisted his victim 's hand behind her back , wrenching what looked like a purse out of her hand . |