Example sentences of "just as it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get it right the engine will catch just as it slows almost to a halt and , to the accompaniment of a swirling grey cloud of oily smoke stage right , the hiccupping bass thumping will grow into the irregular loping lumpy grumble of a healthy Pratt 986 . |
| 2 | The extreme flexibility of the Course allows part-time students to change later to a full-time mode , just as it allows full-timers to drop down to part-time study . |
| 3 | Just as it requires careful planning to ensure the correct orientation of a pedagogical grammar , so the progression of the lessons too must be carefully planned . |
| 4 | Just as it dislikes the thought of securitising its mortgage assets — ‘ why give away margin ? ’ asks Jon Foulds , its chairman since 1990 — so it also knows that underwriting the insurance it sells would eventually be more profitable than taking commissions from Standard Life . |
| 5 | ‘ The general public has a deepseated distrust of science and technology , and insists on ‘ civilian control ’ of science and scientists just as it insists on civilian control of the military ’ . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 7 | Madam chairman , er just as it happens er I 've I 've been in conversation with Mr assistant |
| 8 | Given the evidence that punishment which immediately precedes a forbidden act ( rarely possible for busy parents ) maximizes resistance to temptation and minimizes guilt , you might try not only to sanction misbehaviour promptly but ( where possible ) forestall your child 's action just as it gets under way . |
| 9 | As a state politician I feel awkward talking about it , but our KGB has its own ‘ Mafia Department ’ for the nasty work , and it does just as it pleases . |
| 10 | Just as it favours conserving the existing definition of sexual intercourse for rape , the Committee seeks to retain the crime of buggery to deal exclusively with anal intercourse . |
| 11 | ‘ Go As You Please ’ is just as it sounds , and with your unlimited 7-day bus pass and your 6 accommodation vouchers , which can be used at any of the Youth Hostels in Northern Ireland , you have the freedom to go where you want , when you want . |
| 12 | ‘ It means just as it sounds . |
| 13 | A ‘ storyline ’ is just as it sounds — a shorthand way to refer to the content of what someone says , where this has the elements of being a story — a comprehensible account of something . |
| 14 | And on these gravelly soils , the Semillon flourishes just as it does in Bordeaux . |
| 15 | Again , just as it does in the skin , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells and this soon has dire effects on the surface of the gut , giving rise to one of the major causes of radiation sickness . |
| 16 | But the mind always expresses itself through the body , consciously or unconsciously , just as it does in humans . |
| 17 | Some will actually feel that they are inside the body of the former self , and that everything is going on around them just as it does in ordinary life . |
| 18 | An element of choice faces the student , just as it does in real life . |
| 19 | The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours . |
| 20 | The neurosis of humanity arose out of the relation to the father , just as it does for the child . |
| 21 | In other words " blood " means death — the termination of life — just as it does in ordinary metaphorical usage ( see , for instance , Genesis 9:5 , 37:26 ; etc . ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Why wo n't the bird stand sideways , nicely in profile , looking to the left — just as it does in my field guide ? ’ we ask . |
| 23 | At the far end a bittern stood — just as it does in all the books , just as it does in all those television nature films : in bizarre ‘ bittern-stance ’ . |
| 24 | At the far end a bittern stood — just as it does in all the books , just as it does in all those television nature films : in bizarre ‘ bittern-stance ’ . |
| 25 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 26 | An interaction exists just as it does in river processes . |
| 27 | The colour of his face always reddens just as it does when fat Margot , the launderess , who keeps me supplied with cups of sack , bends and dips to provide me with a generous view of the most famous cleavage in all of Surrey . ) |
| 28 | Just as it collapses the hierarchy of narrative levels , so the novel un-builds the hierarchy of metatextual discourses that has come lately to encrust itself around ‘ metafictional ’ novels . |
| 29 | This obscures the true nature of Eliot 's life , just as it diminishes his poetry . |
| 30 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |