Example sentences of "just as [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day . |
| 2 | Just as teaching practice is prescribed for student teachers , so the course would include a ‘ sandwich ’ element . |
| 3 | In days past , when children did not have the delights of the mass media to occupy their time for them , diary keeping was regarded as a ‘ good thing ’ for the young , just as collecting things was regarded as keeping hands and minds occupied . |
| 4 | The breakthrough will come when all these players in the tourism game begin to market themselves not just as providing value for money , but value for the environment . |
| 5 | A stepping-stone for many people is through the arts seen not just as providing means of expression but also as giving meaning and helping to structure experience . |
| 6 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 7 | This distinction , between , as it were , having an existence , and possessing an identity , erm is a major preoccupation in the novel , just as finding answers to the questions ‘ Where am I ? ’ or rather more importantly ‘ Who am I ? ’ is one of its central objectives . |
| 8 | This is because variable scribal usage is likely to be functional in some way , just as spoken variation is functional ( as suggested in chapter 2 ) , and the most immediately obvious function of an alphabetic writing system is to relate writing to speech-forms , however complicated this relationship may be . |
| 9 | Just as spoken language was seen as central to education , so cognitive theories have relied on speech coding as a key process . |
| 10 | Although large animals are generally more efficient at walking than small ones — just as trains outperform cars — the camel is in an altogether different league . |
| 11 | My argument here with Dennett is that if he intends interpretations ( a ) or ( b ) ( a textual quotation here would be beside the point , since these distinctions are not made in his paper in that form ) , then those are inferior explications of consciousness to a process one in terms of level : ( b ) because it lacks the ‘ unity ’ requirement , and ( a ) because , although it could meet all the necessary conditions set out earlier , it seems in some way arbitrary , just as did Minsky 's supreme organizing module . |
| 12 | Angle bending modes may give rise to characteristic frequencies just as stretching modes do , but bending frequencies are much more variable . |
| 13 | In the circles where he was now moving , a mixture of the artistic and homosexual worlds , corduroy was the smart thing : working-men 's clothes adopted as a badge of nonconformity and made fashionable , just as happened years later with blue jeans . |
| 14 | Calculated gross redemption yields ( real ) on index-linked bonds vary just as do yields ( in nominal terms ) on conventional bonds . |
| 15 | The selling approach to each category will tend to differ , depending upon customer needs , just as selling approaches differ when considering physical products . |