Example sentences of "just [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dark suit was impeccable , his hair was exactly the right length , and the fragrance of his aftershave was just sufficiently elusive as to be almost unbearably tantalising . |
| 2 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 3 | If he just so much as tried to make her budge … |
| 4 | But it 's just so sexual as well , you know , for children from four upwards , I just think it 's really bad . |
| 5 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | It 's just as fishy as his force . |
| 9 | I reckon that 'd be just as comfy as a proper bed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sometimes migrant trains were seen travelling eastward , despite the higher fares , just as packed as those going west . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | " 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yet she was just as impotent as all the other times . |
| 20 | And his son Mike was just as nice as he was . |
| 21 | Kylie never tires of telling interviewers that life at home at Camberwell High School was just as normal as it could possibly be . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | His advance team of medics claims to have found many cases just as serious as Irma Hadzimuratovic , whose plight prompted the whole mercy mission . |
| 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 . |