Example sentences of "just as [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The miller 's wife was just as mean as her husband , but their daughter Neva was quite different ; she was happy.natured and kind-hearted , sang all day at her work " like a thrush , and was as beautiful as she was kind , with summer-blue eyes and hair the colour of the sun 's rays at noon . |
| 2 | ‘ Ethnic minorities ’ she says , most Black women take offence when considered to be in the same category as Europeans who can be just as racist as Delia Cope . |
| 3 | It 's just as fishy as his force . |
| 4 | I reckon that 'd be just as comfy as a proper bed . |
| 5 | In this case , therefore , Burns 's idea of treating differences of status built on it as idle and artificial is just as appropriate as it is in the case of class . |
| 6 | Sometimes migrant trains were seen travelling eastward , despite the higher fares , just as packed as those going west . |
| 7 | Will the Secretary of State think for a moment about the effects of NHS trusts on the low-paid hospital staff , who are just as essential as medical staff in the running of the hospital ? |
| 8 | Maggie was shown into a very expensive flat that overlooked the river and she had one of her rare glimpses of the owner as he stood with his back to a roaring fire and regarded her through eyes that were just as sharp as they had ever been in his youth . |
| 9 | ‘ You may be just as tired as him but mentally you must get it into your brain that you are not going to stop until you drop and if your opponent knows that he might stop . ’ |
| 10 | " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But just as powerful and often linked to it is the matter of medical dominance . |
| 14 | People who are denied political privileges like this on the ground that they are not standard items naturally tend to reply that the charge is false — to claim that they are actually just as standard as everybody else . |
| 15 | Yet she was just as impotent as all the other times . |
| 16 | Gloucester after Saturday 's match at Kingsholm were left feeling just as impotent and just as confounded after Bath had stormed away in the last five minutes of extra time to win this semi-final . |
| 17 | By and large , the nice ones are just as nice and the nasty ones not much nastier . |
| 18 | And his son Mike was just as nice as he was . |
| 19 | Kylie never tires of telling interviewers that life at home at Camberwell High School was just as normal as it could possibly be . |
| 20 | ‘ I took a bus to the border of the forbidden zone just as close as I dared , got out and saw this nice little wabi , a small valley kind of thing , and thought I 'll settle down there and take my chances . |
| 21 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 22 | Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that in the Baltic states today the problems of lack of food and hunger are just as serious as , if not more serious than , those in the big cities of the former Soviet Union , but that they receive little attention ? |
| 23 | His advance team of medics claims to have found many cases just as serious as Irma Hadzimuratovic , whose plight prompted the whole mercy mission . |
| 24 | But it 's just as sad if highly qualified and trained women lose everything they 've worked for because they have to stay at home . |
| 25 | Glentoran fans surely must realise that their team 's pathetic form is simply due to the fact they support a pathetic team , and to lay the blame with the manager is just as pathetic as their team 's poor performances . |
| 26 | Soon , a similar attitude will become commonplace in the commercial mid-range systems market , for the software vendors in the Unix market are just as committed as Microsoft in the personal computer world , if not quite as wealthy or ingenious . |
| 27 | A woman should be just as committed as a man to the construction of justice and love . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But just as satisfying as compensation for Mrs. Morley would be a change in the law . |
| 30 | It 's just as skilful as most other sports . |