Example sentences of "[noun] just when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 2 | Uncle Jack called to complain of being kept in the dark just when his expertise in such matters — of which Charlotte was unaware — might be most valuable . |
| 3 | The truck had toppled off the roof just when he was walking underneath it . |
| 4 | ‘ He had a knack of jumping on roundabouts just when they were coming to a dead stop . ’ |
| 5 | Taylor opposed the ECOMOG intervention , apparently regarding its arrival as intervention on the side of Doe just when the latter was on the brink of defeat , and threatened reprisals against nationals of the countries providing troops for ECOMOG . |
| 6 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 7 | But , I 've had them on buses several times just when I , when I 'm going on a bus . |
| 8 | It 's just that we do n't want anything to ruffle the Khedive 's hair just when the negotiations are approaching a delicate stage . ’ |
| 9 | But this hardly solves the problem of knowing how to obtain the relevant indices just when we need them . |
| 10 | Alec Stewart and Graeme Hick , who played so well in England 's first innings , bagged ducks just when their country needed a repeat performance . |
| 11 | You can do it at home or at work just when you feel you need it . |
| 12 | That she is more liable to leave work just when she is getting most useful [ in other words ] there are more changes in a crowd of women workers than in a crowd of men workers.32 |
| 13 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 14 | But , head to head with the world 's No 1 , the strapping Scot had had a four-under- par 66 to his conqueror 's 68 and the satisfaction of having unfurled a draw just when he needed it most . |
| 15 | This meeting took place just when the AFO was passing a series of resolutions which demanded the ‘ right of self-determination … forthwith ’ and the organisation of a national army . |
| 16 | The prediction is made more precise by making it equal to 1,290 days and then adding another 45 days ( 12.11–12 ) — to the despair of the modern interpreter , — but probably to the complete satisfaction of the contemporary reader who read the prophecy just when it had been fulfilled . |
| 17 | A lot of them , like the horned and armoured dinosaurs ( represented by ceratopsians and ankylosaurs ) appeared towards the end of the dinosaur era just when the stegosaurs were passing away . |
| 18 | He took a gulp at the Scotch and gave a wry smile at the injustices of this world which caused him to be smitten with another one of those blinding attacks just when he was about to make it . |
| 19 | A sub-plot in ‘ All the Vermeers ’ offers the anguish of a drug-addicted artist , pressed for cash just when the market is turning downward . |
| 20 | About three weeks after Minch had gone , the Sweeper came by one evening just when the Men were shutting the Zoo down for the night . |
| 21 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 22 | It 's all going wrong for Forest just when Frank Clark thought his problems were coming to an end . |
| 23 | Like the ambulance service who is having to go out and find income , having to do health and safety checks at factories just when you need an ambulance . |
| 24 | Even those few are now being bled dry by charges and commissions just when they thought that they had entered the land of milk and honey . |
| 25 | Why do train travellers and see-ers off always say the most meaningful things to each other just when the train is actually moving off , gathering speed and making them further and further apart ? |
| 26 | General Sherman … has raised up an army on the four sides of Joseph just when it seemed most probable that he was about to escape … |
| 27 | It was a real drag to find them handcuffed behind my back just when I needed them most , I can tell you . |
| 28 | Throwing in this unbalancing element of bizarre comedy just when I 'd got everything settled . |
| 29 | Flower vans should be mobilised countrywide and staff given the bouquets just when the queues are at their thickest . |
| 30 | It would push a powerful Arab country back into implacable confrontation with Israel just when voices calling for a peace settlement are gaining strength throughout the Arab world . |