Example sentences of "just as [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone ( not a marble , but some kind of limestone ) looked just as one would expect after an operation to remove dirt and accumulated grime , and I do not see why this aspect of the work should give rise to so much concern . |
| 2 | The intermittency route to chaos was also inferred , with pure xenon in the laser tube , from a sequence in which a single frequency ( with its harmonics ) progressively broadened on increasing the discharge current , just as one would expect for increasingly frequent bursts of noise against a background of steady oscillation . |
| 3 | Meaning lies in the mind , beyond words — just as one may search for a word to express one 's meaning . |
| 4 | Just as one can know whether one is short or tall only by comparing oneself with others , so one can know whether one 's own political system is " short " or " tall " only by putting it alongside other systems and noting the differences . |
| 5 | One can learn the techniques of counselling just as one can learn to sing or to run but one will still be in a different league from those who were born with these skills . |
| 6 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 7 | But one must learn to read , just as one must learn to see and learn to live . ’ |