Example sentences of "just as [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as they defy access , they defy organization by outsiders . |
| 2 | Just as they finished Tony appeared . |
| 3 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |
| 4 | In the Middle Ages , people often depicted their monks as ruminative animals , chewing over the Word of God repeatedly , as it were , rolling the words around in their mouths and absorbing it into themselves just as they received Jesus the Word in the Eucharist , in a symbolic and sacramental manner . |
| 5 | Animism was likewise low and primitive because it was said to imply that souls inhabit animals and trees just as they inhabit men . |
| 6 | In order to try to distance themselves from this operation they employed a freelance , just as they tap telephones illegally or burgle property by using freelances . |
| 7 | Since there appear to be no consequences in judicial practice if the label constitutional is applied to a particular law , it is in the end no more than a convenient way for textbook writers to organise their material , just as they produce books on industrial law or commercial law . |
| 8 | All socializing processes are political , just as they involve struggle between competing interests . |
| 9 | They used Druze fighters as a colonial militia just as they used members of the minority Muslim Alawite community in Syria to put down Sunni Muslim nationalist revolt . |
| 10 | Just as they loved colour , they loved oratory , even when they could not understand it : in 1901 delegates at the Free Church Council meeting in Cardiff stood up to welcome five former French priests . |
| 11 | Her son and his family regarded the instrument as the key to ‘ their ’ home , just as they regarded Haifa as ‘ their ’ town although they had never been there . |
| 12 | Then we can sail off on a reach in either direction just as we saw Suzanne doing . |
| 13 | It uses sound to perceive , and continuously update its perception of , the position of objects in three-dimensional space , just as we use light . |
| 14 | They track every piece of hardware we got up there … just as we keep tabs on theirs . ’ |
| 15 | Just as we need encouragement from others so they need it from us . |
| 16 | Just as we enter Machico , we pass the Hotel Dom Pedro on the right , a favourite retreat for a peaceful few days . |
| 17 | Just as we find animal perception hard to imagine because we have a different mind structure to other creatures , so too do we have difficulty understanding their language . |
| 18 | We know them immediately as reflections , just as we appreciate shadows cast by objects as they obstruct the passage of light . |
| 19 | Most countries in the world meter water as a matter of course , just as we meter gas and electricity . |
| 20 | Just as we define science to be any activity directed towards understanding any phenomenon or process in nature , we take a similarly broad-brush approach to the definition of engineering . |
| 21 | The point is that tonight — Magnapop 's UK debut — is peppered with punky teenage licks and festering grungy rumbles , yet just as one expects lyrics concerning death , drinking and corporate rock shagging , Linda hops , hiccups and beams , ‘ Wo n't you let me walk you home from school ? /Can I meet you at the pool ? ’ |
| 22 | The extreme flexibility of the Course allows part-time students to change later to a full-time mode , just as it allows full-timers to drop down to part-time study . |
| 23 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 24 | Just as it costs peanuts to get oil out of a hole in the ground , it costs peanuts to put rubbish into one — so long as the oil , or the space , lasts . |
| 25 | Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them . |
| 26 | Visitors to Bowes can see the Silver Swan go through its ‘ elaborate motions ’ twice a day as 12.30pm and 4pm , just as it impressed Mark Twain more than a century ago . |
| 27 | Gary , too , had a lot of my dad in him , just as I resembled Doug , the son . |
| 28 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 29 | He 's my son and I love him , just as I love Claire . |
| 30 | In a Christian society one can not avoid the memory of the cock that crowed to Simon Peter just as he denied Christ the third time . |