Example sentences of "just as the [adj] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva left the room in a state of shock , saddened by the prospect of leaving the ICO just as the new initiatives were getting off the ground . |
| 2 | April , Hitler had committed suicide , just as the Russian troops were in the process of overrunning Berlin , and on 8th . |
| 3 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 4 | It was just as the two women were leaving that the pandemonium started . |
| 5 | More obscenities followed just as the two men were hurrying to catch up with Comfort , and then the woman stopped dead in front of Comfort and spat in her face . |
| 6 | We arrived just as the first eggs were hatching . |
| 7 | I flattened to the street just as the first shots were fired … |
| 8 | There is , after all , the alternative theory that species represent different stable states of living matter , just as the chemical elements are different stable states of non-living matter . |
| 9 | Just as the coastal cities were subjected throughout the centuries to incursions from the interior by the forces of whichever power held sway beyond the mountains — Byzantines , Hungarians , Serbs and Turks — so the tranquillity of the Mediterranean climate is brutally violated from time to time by the icy blasts of the bura . |
| 10 | In fact , just as the difficult teens are coming to an end , the young adults are off , |