Example sentences of "just as [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the prototype of the historian who never marvels , just as Herodotus is the prototype of the historian who always marvels . |
| 2 | As active manipulator of his existence , he falls within the realm of culture , and so , just as culture is deemed superior to nature , so man and his activities are considered superior to woman and her world . |
| 3 | But of course natural law is false judged by positivist assumptions just as positivism is false judged by natural law assumptions . |
| 4 | Just as camouflage is used by both sides in the contests between hunters and hunted , so is the technique of baiting . |
| 5 | The skinhead style is a defensive assertion of whiteness just as Rasta is a celebration of the black cultural roots . |
| 6 | Scottish , and very proud of it , just as Scotland is proud of him , John Young Stewart was born near Dumbarton , Strathclyde in 1939 and went on to become the most dominant Formula One driver between 1969 and his retirement in 1973 . |
| 7 | The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames says merely , ‘ Forsey ( see Fursey ) ’ , and under the latter has ‘ furzy enclosure — found early in Dorset just as Forsey is now . ’ |
| 8 | Awareness of your breathing is important — just as awareness is important in any area of living . |
| 9 | Syria is still supplying guns to the Muslims , just as Iraq is supplying guns to the Christians . |
| 10 | Well I 've got I C G conference on the thirteenth to the fifteenth , but maybe it 's er maybe it 's just as Iris is away for |
| 11 | Just as trompe-l'oeil is mischannelled photography , so is painting in someone else 's style . |
| 12 | A further explanation can be found in the idea of ‘ tending ’ — that is , just as work is needed to keep a garden in good heart , so the clumps needed the active participation of local people to survive . |
| 13 | Just as confusion is the enemy of thinking , so ambiguity is the enemy of communication . |
| 14 | It 's a sombre story for a colourful age , just as Milan is a dull home for Italy 's finest designers — but the world buys it , and buys it big . |
| 15 | Just as Howard is scraping the last spoonful of apple crumble out of the bowl , a thought strikes him . |
| 16 | Just as democracy is sometimes loosely equated with majority rule , so at others it has been identified with government by consent . |
| 17 | An ‘ odour ’ is simply what we can smell just as sound is what we can hear and touch is what we can feel . |
| 18 | Just as linguistics is not primarily concerned with individual utterances ( parole ) but with the language system as a whole ( langue ) , the structuralist proposal is that individual works should be regarded as instances of parole informed by rules which belong to a general literary langue . |
| 19 | Neurons do not individually have the property of consciousness , consciousness emerges when a large number of neurons are interacting in the right kind of way ; just as speed is a property not of any single component of a car , but an emergent property of the whole system when it is operating in an appropriate way . |
| 20 | They would readily accept that an omnipresent divine being can not be viewed through a telescope , however powerful , just as heaven is not a place which can be spied upon as though it were a distant planet . |
| 21 | This is the human nature ( the heritage of sickness ) with which every man is familiar , and which is nevertheless still capable of conceiving what is lost , just as health is desired by the sick . |
| 22 | His view of science was reductive ; just as astronomy is a part of physics , rather than a separate subject , so is chemistry : |
| 23 | Just as Christ is righteous ? |
| 24 | Maezinha means Little Mother , just as Sarainha is Little Sara . |
| 25 | ‘ … the notion of value within science is at the philosophical heart of scientific administration , just as truth is at the heart of the practice of science ’ . |
| 26 | The vital point , brought out forcefully by Fuller , is that just as adjudication is distinguished by the form of participation that it confers so are other types of decision-making , and just as the nature of adjudication shapes the procedures relevant to its decisional form so do other species of decision-making . |
| 27 | Those who want to preserve the British coal industry point to the irony of the situation : just as technology is finding ways to make coal a cheaper , cleaner source of energy , British pits are closing down . |