Example sentences of "[conj] just as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It could be argued that just as some firms specialise in commercial work , other firms concentrate on criminal advocacy . |
| 3 | We are sure that just as those Members ' performance in the Committee will be noted , so their performance in the House today will be noted . |
| 4 | I looked at Lily She seemed to me to be perceptibly hurt ; and just as another wild idea was beginning to run through my mind , that she really was an amnesiac , some beautiful amnesiac he had , somehow , literally and metaphorically laid his hands on , she gave me what was beyond any doubt a contemporary look , a look out of role — a quick , questioning glance that flicked from me to Conchis 's averted head and back again . |
| 5 | And just as most magnates needed royal patronage , in terms of land and office , so too did the leading clergy of the kingdom . |
| 6 | The result of all this can be likened to a vast ocean , teeming with fish of which only one in a million is edible , and just as this would present a monstrous task to fishermen entrusted with the responsibility of feeding a hungry populace , so does the almost unbelievable quantity of religious teaching and literature by its very size and complexity make it impossible for it ever to serve a serious purpose in satisfying the undoubted universal desire for a respected and well-beloved religion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But just as that excuse failed , so does this , and the couplet emerges with a direct warning : ‘ Take heed ’ . |
| 9 | Consequently , nationalisation expressed their political wish , but just as that did n't extend to an alternative philosophy at the economic or political level , neither did it extend to a radical philosophy of personal life . |
| 10 | But just as all doctors have patients who consume disproportionate amounts of time so we have papers that slow us down . |
| 11 | Mountbatten now faced the precarious venture of a seaborne invasion of Malaya and Singapore , but just as this was launched came the news of the atomic bomb and the Japanese surrender . |
| 12 | So far as I know , she never gave a coherent account to anybody of her recollections , and there is no reason why she should have done ; but just as any scrap of information about Shakespeare — from anybody , a servant , amanuensis , ostler , for instance — would be of the greatest interest , so a testimony from one so close as Miss Hinson would have been worth having . |
| 13 | But just as some marriages can at times feel suffocating , so they may at others feel uncomfortably distant . |
| 14 | In Italy , everything for years now has been political , even art , but just as most of Italian life is kicking against the ever looser traces of the big political parties , the Biennale has come up with a wholly unreconstructed , wholly political , Board of Management , approved under pressure from the Christian Democrats by the Prime Minister Giuliano Amato on 15 January . |
| 15 | But just as these new politics have been developing at the local level , so too we need new theories and new concepts to take account of them . |
| 16 | But just as these two groups began moving closer together , other forces were gathering which threatened to blow the consensus wide apart once more . |