Example sentences of "just as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
| 2 | The Swede , playing in the penultimate group , finished his round just as Spanish television came on the air and the situation embarrassed tournament director David Probyn . |
| 3 | One parent families are not a static group and just as certain circumstances bring them into existence , so with others they may disappear . |
| 4 | Such a dance requires exact timing from all concerned , just as certain movements do in MacMillan 's Elite Syncopations when the tall girl and the short boy dance to ‘ Alaskan Rag ’ or when the giggly couple dance in ‘ The Golden Hours ’ . |
| 5 | Nothing very special here , then , to herald the arrival of little William ; but just as that year brought in the new , so it took away the old : Benjamin Titford the Outrider 's widow Elizabeth , 70 years old and paralysed , died in Shoreditch Workhouse on 12 September . |
| 6 | I 'm gon na be raised up on a cross just as that brass serpent was put on a pole in the camp of , in the middle of Israel , of the , of the camp there in the er , there in the wilderness . |
| 7 | But just as that excuse failed , so does this , and the couplet emerges with a direct warning : ‘ Take heed ’ . |
| 8 | Nobody in this business is infallible , but if something does go wrong , the customer must know that the contractor has the technical resources and financial muscle to put it right ; just as that contractor needs to have the resources and skilled manpower to tackle any infestation , and be neither too big to care nor too small to cope . |
| 9 | ‘ Just as that kiss last night got to you , ’ he went on relentlessly . |
| 10 | All these approaches have had a degree of success , but the drug scene is a dynamic , creative one where just as one drug seems to be under control , a new threat emerges . |
| 11 | The French fabliau Boivin de Provins , for instance , treats the prostitutes just as one source of sexually desirable and available women , and laughs with the man who is able to con them into providing him with a whore for free . |
| 12 | One word may lead to another , just as one topic of conversation may lead to another . |
| 13 | But just as one theme of the play is that of artifice discarded , so Eliot produces here some of his simplest and most expressive poetry . |
| 14 | Just as two beliefs can be such that they can not both be true , so two attitudes can involve wishes that can not both be realized . |
| 15 | The TARDIS arrived back at the hospital just as two Marines escorted Benny inside . |
| 16 | Thus was born the idea of the W particle , which , according to the latest versions of the theory , should weigh in at some 85 times the proton 's mass , just as two teams at CERN found earlier this year . |
| 17 | Clozapine entered further trials just as other neuroleptics were found to produce catalepsy and the reversal of amphetamine effects in animals . |
| 18 | I can hate , just as other designers can do , but there is also the question of education ; to be mean to people who can not answer you back . |
| 19 | Ironically , it was just as such images of contentment began to vanish that the taste for the picturesque caused the upper classes to fall in love with the idea of the cottage . |
| 20 | Scrolls can only be used by wizards , for example , while a Runefang may only be used by heroes of the Empire ( this does include Champions and Lords incidentally — all characters who are not wizards are heroes just as all wizards are wizards even if they are Wizard Lords or Master Wizards ) . |
| 21 | ‘ All men wish all women to be gentle , ’ Mrs Browning commented , ‘ just as all women wish men to be strong and to alter this we must first start with our sons and what they are brought up to . |
| 22 | It should be noted that just as all deputies combined a school-wide responsibility with teaching a class , so most combined a major school-wide responsibility from the first list above with one or more of those from the second list . |
| 23 | But just as all doctors have patients who consume disproportionate amounts of time so we have papers that slow us down . |
| 24 | Just as all teeth are a bit different , so are all cavities . |
| 25 | Just as greater speed in the pursued has developed in relation to increased speed in the pursuer ; or defensive armour in relation to aggressive weapons ; so the perfection of concealing devices has evolved in response to increased powers of perception . |
| 26 | His other forte is in Believe-It-Or-Not items of Russian paranoia : ‘ just as Soviet railroad tracks are a wider gauge than foreign ones to prevent an invasion by train , Soviet VCR 's took a larger tape to prevent an influx of foreign pornography . ’ |
| 27 | Just as thirty years before , here again were feminist divisions over using the repressive state to enforce women 's demands . |
| 28 | But on the question of grant maintained , of course , let's not forget what happened some time ago in places like Manchester Grammar School erm long before we had this new opting out legislation they were forced by the Labour Government to go direct grant , which they did , and they are a highly successful and I could rehearse just as many success stories , in fact many times more than Jack has rehearsed with his Hull Grammar School . |
| 29 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 30 | Each of the four poems has five sections , and each of the sections reflects upon its counterparts in the other poems ; just as each poem develops and resolves its theme , so " Little Gidding " gathers up the three preceding ones in a magisterial synthesis . |