Example sentences of "just as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the history of sculpture includes some account of the abortive plans for sculpture , just as the history of architecture is incomplete as a history of ideas without a knowledge of rejected proposals . |
| 2 | Gianni and Ursula leapt on just as the doors were closing , but Monique , who was now a few yards behind them and whose movements were hampered anyway by her arthritis , was left standing there as the train moved out . |
| 3 | But just as the mere thought of the long run is liable to blight any work on which one is engaged , so the thought of a tone distinct from though inseparable from the shit is guaranteed to bring even the most promising project to a halt . |
| 4 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 5 | Bogarde plays a Russian emigre who runs a chocolate factory in Germany just as the Nazis begin to take power . |
| 6 | Thus with the aileron and rudder held in a central position , a glider will always weathercock into line with the relative airflow , just as the wind vane on a church steeple will always swing into the wind . |
| 7 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 8 | There were only three divisions in the city — east , west , and central — and each of us in our own division knew we were the élite ; for just as the men in the west were certain they were best , so the men from the east remained convinced of their own superiority . |
| 9 | Just as the white-coated doctors in hospitals symbolize the clean and purifying nature of the healer , so the dark uniform of the police symbolizes not just the force identity , but also the presence of the avenger , who purifies through retribution rather than by cure . |
| 10 | The constructivist theory of mind regards thinking on an analogy with action ; just as the representation theory takes an analogy with drawing and writing . |
| 11 | The Third Fairy dances slowly sur les pointes and uses conventional hand movements to show she brings the gift of Plenty , just as the godmother at a Russian christening scatters breadcrumbs over the cradle . |
| 12 | Just as the wolf will chase its prey , Fido chases his ball . |
| 13 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 14 | The doctors rule out insanity , God knows why , just as the club and other circles of ‘ our town ’ think a sane Stavrogin capable of ear-biting and nose-pulling . |
| 15 | However , this seems to be a red herring , since the standard Buck topology uses a pair of inductors ( though not coupled ) and a single transistor switch just as the Cuk topology does , but need no other energy coupling device . |
| 16 | Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places . |
| 17 | For this and other achievements they deserved the recognition as Lions officially denied them — just as the whole Lions tour party had deserved to be invited to Paris . |
| 18 | This further sign of disunity among the opposition comes just as the former president , Valery Giscard d'Estaing , who is also the leader of the UDF , has called for a fusion of the seven parties of the centre-right into ‘ one big party of the centre-right by the beginning of 1992 ’ . |
| 19 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 20 | Sir David , knighted in 1982 , has swung his paper behind critical issues : it started campaigning on environmental issues a year ago just as the Conservatives switched tack . |
| 21 | To succeed , you needed to take great care that you peaked just as the winning-post hove into view . |
| 22 | They would blaze into prominence just as the foreground planting was falling to pieces . |
| 23 | I stopped playing just as the church door burst open and a very irate Officer came charging along the pews in my direction , his eyes bulging out of their sockets . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 25 | Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful . |
| 26 | Just as the film was reaching its climax my firstborn began one of his frequent exercise periods . |
| 27 | But the time to ‘ recognise ’ it image by image had gone ; just as the moments of each day fade away , so I 'd forgotten it . |
| 28 | But just as the loss of self is the precondition for the discovery of a more ‘ real ’ because unconflicted , unrepressed self , so the precondition for pastoral sublimity is the loss of history , and once again the landscape which crystallizes desire , in such remarkable images , is also effaced by it : |
| 29 | Fanon 's apparent ignorance and misrepresentation of women and feminine sexuality has been remarked before ; less so his equally problematic representation of homosexuality , and the way he slides from the one to the other : ‘ the Negrophobic woman is in tact nothing but a putative sexual partner — just as the Negrophobic man is a repressed homosexual . ’ |
| 30 | At the hotel in Longford they broke the journey to have tea and sandwiches , and just as the winter light began to fail they were turning in the open gate under the poisonous yew tree . |