Example sentences of "just as it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will take a second Pearl Harbor for the Americans to realise how inefficient the NSA really is , just as it took the Falklands War of 1982 to reveal the deficiencies at GCHQ . |
| 2 | Just as it dislikes the thought of securitising its mortgage assets — ‘ why give away margin ? ’ asks Jon Foulds , its chairman since 1990 — so it also knows that underwriting the insurance it sells would eventually be more profitable than taking commissions from Standard Life . |
| 3 | The obvious solution is to stop filling scarce space with bulky rubbish just as it left the bin : switch to recycling and incineration . |
| 4 | The brilliance of the recent verbal firework display he put on at Westminster enchanted his party — just as it alarmed the Labour Party that John Smith proved such an easy target for him . |
| 5 | Emerson Fittipaldi was the next Lotus world champion and , just as it seemed the midas touch was deserting Chapman , American Mario Andretti lifted the 1978 title in the Lotus 78/79 , with team-mate Ronnie Peterson ( Swe ) second . |
| 6 | just as it reached the top of the trunk , the bird flew away . |
| 7 | Just as it collapses the hierarchy of narrative levels , so the novel un-builds the hierarchy of metatextual discourses that has come lately to encrust itself around ‘ metafictional ’ novels . |
| 8 | The Regis was so vast it absorbed the Writers Internationale just as it absorbed the British Congress of Funeral Directors . |
| 9 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |
| 10 | Hungary lost much foreign creditor confidence as a consequence of the general deterioration in its economic performance just as it approached a period when it needed substantial foreign loans to service its debts , finance its convertible currency account deficit and replenish hard currency reserves . |
| 11 | Victor was known within Celtic language studies as the author of a seminal book whose title , The Decline of the Celtic Languages ( John Donald , Edinburgh , 1983 ) , disguised the richness of its scope , just as it disguised the alternative interests of the author . |
| 12 | In its latest quarterly review , the Bank said the economy was still bumping along the bottom — just as it reported a year ago . |
| 13 | This one act of his expelled him into the wilderness more forcibly than any other , just as it did the novelist George Gissing in England . |