Example sentences of "just as [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just as Muslims and Croats had very good reasons to leave Yugoslavia once recognition was granted , so , too , did many of Bosnia 's Serbs have very good reasons not to . |
| 2 | So understanding is integral to faith , just as faith and understanding are both integral to experience . |
| 3 | However , just as engineers and physicists find practical use for some of the results of classical elasticity theory ( usually in semi-empirical forms ) so rheologists , polymer scientists and material scientists in general wish to find applicable parts of continuum theory , particularly when the simpler linear theories we have discussed earlier in the chapter fail . |
| 4 | Just as McBride and Doyle before him , Ciaran Fitzgerald has suffered from the Irish notion that Messiahs work . |
| 5 | The first , given by the Japanese delegation to IWC meetings in recent years , is that whale meat is still a large part of the Japanese diet , Just as chicken and pork is part of the European diet . |
| 6 | According to , chief investment manager at Scottish Equitable : ‘ One of the reasons Taurus failed was because a lot of banks make money not just as custodians but as registrars . |
| 7 | Just as Britain and France had fought repeatedly to prevent German competition from developing , so Germany in its turn tried to restrict Polish economic growth and rivalry . |
| 8 | The largest amount of technical co-operation for Asia comes from Japan ( $115m in 1991 ) and , just as Britain and France give priority in aid to the Commonwealth and former French overseas territories for historical , political and economic reasons , Japan has placed priority on Asia . |
| 9 | Just as syntax or semantics must determine whether the correct word is meat or meet , such considerations must ultimately decide whether the correct response is recognise or wreck a nice . |
| 10 | Just as essences or forms give rise to those properties , so definitions of those forms , when used as premisses , give rise to conclusions about those properties . |
| 11 | And just as laws and institutions are not the only means of controlling governments , so too they are not the only means available to governments for achieving their policy goals . |
| 12 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 13 | ‘ No problem , ’ he says , ‘ Just as look as we keep winning ! ’ |
| 14 | Drilling operations had meanwhile been shifted to the south , and oil was finally struck in Masjid-i-Suleiman on 26 May 1908 , just as D'Arcy and Burmah were on the point of giving up . |
| 15 | But just as Jesus and the following crowd passed under Zacchaeus ' perch , Jesus stopped and looked straight up at him . |
| 16 | Just as Poitou and Anjou and Normandy and Gascony , and all those pleasant counties where we 've spent so many foolish months and so much good money are French , do what we will , and will continue French from this on . |
| 17 | Without conflict organizations may well die , just as families and marriages die without conflict . |
| 18 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |
| 19 | ‘ We needed that performance today as a nation , not just as players or manager , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Just as physics and chemistry helped to modernize biology and moved it to centre stage during the past thirty years , I believe that biology is about to augment the social sciences greatly and move them to centre stage . |
| 21 | It is the angel Gabriel who comes to Charlemagne at the end of the poem , just as Gabriel and Michael — the fighting archangel , whose cult was flourishing anew in the tenth and eleventh centuries — come to Roland to carry his soul to heaven ; the poem is definitely Christian , and an attempt to set a religious seal on knightly glory ; but the knightly glory has in its turn captured the Church , and harnessed it , in the person of the archbishop of Rheims , to the holy war against the infidel . |
| 22 | Borneo , Java and Sumatra were all connected to the mainland by what is known as the Sunda Shelf , just as Australia and New Guinea were joined by the Sahul Shelf . |
| 23 | Associated with the orders were the colour and the pageantry of war : the richness of the apparels ; the emphasis on the outward trappings ( say of the heralds ) ; the sense that going to war was an occasion , just as tournaments or jousts were occasions . |
| 24 | At the end of May Dorothy could write to her brother Richard that ‘ William has now some poems in the Bristol press ’ ; and by mid-September , just as Coleridge and Wordsworth were preparing to leave for Germany , the Lyrical Ballads were at last ready to be offered to an indifferent public . |
| 25 | Just as Macleodganj and Campbellpur joined the subcontinent 's geography , its vernacular speech may be studded with English words and phrases ( ek real badmash — a bad lot — wolf sheep 's clothing meh ) . |
| 26 | He braked hard to a halt outside the Co-op in Newtown , just as Billy and Mary turned the comer . |
| 27 | However , all this said and done , just as historians and archaeologists are today able to reconstruct the meaning of obsolescent forms of recording such as hieroglyphics or the structure and form of ancient buildings through the analysis of postholes , one must not underestimate the ability of future generations to decode the electronic records that are being created by today 's society . |
| 28 | But governments seem unable to learn that the high taxes are inevitably passed on to the consumer as part of the cost of operating a business : Taxes have to be paid , and just as fuel and power bills are borne , tax liability forms part of the overall cost-recovery necessary for the survival of a business . |
| 29 | We found ourselves lost , just as Masha and I had been when a sudden mist had descended on the lower slopes of the Wetterhorn . |
| 30 | Even when you are fitter , it is a good idea to start each session with these , just as athletes and ballet dancers do throughout their careers . |