Example sentences of "just as [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I reckon that 'd be just as comfy as a proper bed . |
2 | Unmoving , he seemed part of the very landscape he stood in , his eyes deep and clear as the blue sea before him , his shoulder-length hair just as golden as the sun burning far above in an azure sky . |
3 | When ordinary men and women are fired by the Spirit to bear witness to ‘ a Lord who pardons and loves , a Lord who is just as powerful as the landowners , the mine-managers or the trade union secretaries , because he is God , a God who desires to be called Father , and who treats the most wretched of men as his son ’ ( d'Epinay ) then people will sit up and take notice . |
4 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
5 | The fourth reason why the Labour party 's hypocrisy and deceit on unemployment is incredible is that the Labour party — I shall not talk about its Common Market Safeguards Committee , of which eight members of the Shadow Cabinet are still members — and the Opposition Front Bench are just as committed as the Government to membership of the exchange rate mechanism . |
6 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
7 | ‘ I wanted to express what a simple thing death and burial is , just as simple as the falling of a leaf -just a bit of earth dug up — a wooden cross … . |
8 | It was a carbon-copy deed , just as terrible as the first time . |
9 | It was just as good as the first Home Alone . |
10 | On growth , the Labour party ignores the evidence of independent forecasters that , on top of the substantial growth rates that we have achieved in the 1980s , our growth rate will be just as good as the G7 average and faster than Germany 's in the second half of next year . |
11 | Bath are non-league part-timers but just as good as the pros … |
12 | It looks just as good as the other way does n't it ? |
13 | We went down the tubes , the blue one is erm just as good as the green one , the blue one longer . |
14 | All engineers know about stress concentrations but a good many do n't really in their hearts believe in them since it is clearly contrary to common sense that a tiny hole should weaken a material just as much as a great big one . |
15 | But it is difficult to measure the effort in military and social co-ordination which such isolated outposts must have required : they were a liability just as much as a help . |
16 | For the province will be affected by the next Labour government 's policies just as much as the rest of the UK . |
17 | Furniture of that quality formed part of the interior architecture , just as much as the fine chimneypieces and doors . |
18 | What is beyond doubt is that just as much as the nuclear scientists have tried to point to a superficially clean industrial process , symbolized by the white Windscale coats , so the public 's fear has centred on the insidious threat of its invisible touch . |
19 | It is probable that , for a large part of our lives , little emphasis was placed on the use of imagination , colour and rhythm and yet we were all born with the potential to use our right brain just as much as the left . |
20 | Again material changes stimulated the new thinking just as much as the perceived inadequacies of existing theory . |
21 | You need the Anders Limpars just as much as the Tony Adams . |
22 | The fears they embody need dealing with just as much as the wrong thinking they exhibit . |
23 | Over time , less glamorous ‘ tortoises ’ can change the rules of competition and the structures of industry just as much as the ‘ hares ’ of rapid change . |
24 | The adult seems to enjoy the experience just as much as the baby does . |
25 | Now it is a sport , and it is a skilled game you know , and I think women can play it just as well as men , or against men and you know , you can have your fans who are very strong for your women 's team tha just as much as the men , but yet , would they also be branded as hooligans because they go along and stand on the terraces and shout for the girls ? |
26 | And so the men can try it just as much as the girls can as well . |
27 | The variety of sexual identities then possible took control of the ‘ private ’ out of the hands of the dominant culture ; it is this fact , just as much as the actual physical acts , that made the ‘ permissive ’ society ( as it was called by the right ) a phenomenon to be at first feared , and finally to be held up as what was wrong with Britain . |
28 | In Eretz family life will not be the same as you have known here in Cork or anywhere in the Diaspora because in the settlements women are involved in communal work just as much as the men are . |
29 | Then , there is the real possibility that a serious defeat for the government could result in a general election and , under the British system , the opposition , just as much as the government , would prefer this to happen at a time favourable to themselves . |
30 | It is not at all clear that stepping up the competition between schools and colleges , and between the territorially ambitious award bodies , will produce the broad choices in education and training that ought to be an entitlement post-16 , just as much as the national curriculum is before that watershed . |