Example sentences of "just as [art] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 2 | Just as the individual 's own make up ( as revealed in the House of Alma episode in II , IX ) is shown to contain elements which are potentially destructive , so it is implied that the civilised centre from which the knights supposedly originate is not impervious to the savage . |
| 3 | Just as the novel 's form is radical , so too is its content . |
| 4 | Whether one tries to illustrate subsidiarity by an upturned pyramid or a spiked helmet is irrelevant : Sir Christopher 's definition makes it clear that , far from being a guarantee for decentralisation , ‘ subsidiarity ’ is a blank cheque for more and more power to be transferred to Community level , just as the principle 's enshrinement in the German constitution has led to massive centralisation of power and expenditure in that country . |
| 5 | Just as the grammarian 's ‘ data ’ can not contain any variable phenomena , so the grammar must have categorial rules , and not ‘ rules ’ which are true only some of the time . |
| 6 | When at the beginning of Shakespearean Negotiations Greenblatt half-jokingly announces literature professors as ‘ salaried , middle-class shamans ’ there is actually a context being uncovered which , just as the anthropologist 's place in reading a culture , needs to be scrutinised . |
| 7 | Just as the worker 's ultimate weapon in his negotiation with management is his labour and the threat of its withdrawal , so my body was my ultimate and , to me , only , weapon in my bid for autonomy . |
| 8 | Just as the regime 's handling of industrial relations precluded the emergence of a moderate trade-union movement , so its political stance precluded the emergence of a reformist party with a stake in the status quo comparable to the German Socialist party . |
| 9 | First , goddesses offer comfort , just as the infant 's mother did : then male gods , or God , offer protection against external reality , as a father does for a child . |
| 10 | Just as the Earth 's gravitational force keeps the moon in orbit , so the moon exerts a force on the Earth . |