Example sentences of "[verb] just as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the course of time the present [ 1954 ] conflict between Communism and Democracy , between East and West , is likely to pass just as the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century have passed . |
| 2 | The protectorate agreement came just as the Russo-Japanese War seemed to suggest new hopes of Asian independence , and Japan 's claim to champion the cause of Korean modernization and Asian nationalism was rendered particularly insulting by the brutality with which all manifestations of anti-Japanese sentiment were suppressed under the protectorate . |
| 3 | Using the wrong face can destroy the effect that a document was trying to create just as the wrong colour can ruin a decoration scheme |
| 4 | France 's Channel 5 — La Cinq — abandoned its fight to survive just as the Independent Broadcasting Authority opened bidding for the new British station with a warning of the commercial risk . |
| 5 | But the events described in them — the loss of some ornament , or the visit of some old family friend — quite often turned out to happen just as the little boy had predicted . |
| 6 | Rachaela had given in her notice at the Pizza Eater and left just as the free balloons began to be given out and Christmas pudding appeared on the menu . |
| 7 | They were supposed to enter just as the large velvet curtains with enormous gold tassels rose . |
| 8 | This process was initiated just as the economic crisis began to make itself felt in Spain . |