Example sentences of "[conj] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these approaches have had a degree of success , but the drug scene is a dynamic , creative one where just as one drug seems to be under control , a new threat emerges . |
| 2 | Or just that you 're frightened to move ? |
| 3 | Now can you write out either now or just before I or when I 've gone what you 're going to do |
| 4 | I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes . |
| 5 | Was that just after the second war or just afore it ? |
| 6 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 7 | Do they do it all at once , or in chronological order , or just as it seems to emerge ? |
| 8 | DEATH AS LIFE 'S END ( the Doctor ) , as a crime ( the Detective ) , or just as butchery . |
| 9 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
| 10 | Or just when there reviews ? |
| 11 | Still others questioned whether any war could ever be worthwhile or just when fought between Christian and Christian ; the doctrine of Christian love , such as Langland voiced in Piers Plowman , seemed incompatible with war . |
| 12 | So they would immediately have turned to the second , legislative stage : they would have tried to discover which decision was more sensible or just or democratic or would otherwise better serve the community . |
| 13 | Are they there for some special purpose or just because there happened to be a nail on the wall for them to hang on ? |
| 14 | Corporate sailing , either as a training exercise , a reward , or just because the chairman fancies himself as Captain Bligh , is a fast growing business . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you ring to say something important or just because you wanted to check up how late your son got home ? ’ |
| 16 | If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 17 | Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise . |
| 18 | erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it . |
| 19 | His sang-froid comes so naturally that , when death seems imminent , he remarks : ‘ It seems too bad that just when we get to where there 's a fortune in diamonds , the mountain should decide to sit down on it . ’ |
| 20 | The irony of black power is that just as whites once used skin colour as a source of privilege , so blacks now use it as a source of entitlement . |
| 21 | Simultaneously the council affirmed that just as the bishops of the great cities of Rome and Syrian Antioch exercised jurisdiction beyond the confines of their own diocese and province , so also the bishop of Alexandria should hold jurisdiction throughout Egypt and Libya . |
| 22 | Gillham continues to argue that just as the participant is protected from physical hurt by the parameters of ‘ it 's only a game ’ , so the same protection applies to psychological hurt . |
| 23 | Bukharin argued that just as there is a period of political disintegration , so too will there be a period of technical and productive collapse . |
| 24 | The same words were used when Princess Anne 's separation from Mark Phillips was announced , and Penny Junor believes that just as Princess Anne eventually divorced so she could remarry , so Prince Charles and Princess Diana will divorce in time . |
| 25 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 26 | ‘ I told him to go jump in a lake , ’ Ellen said very calmly , ‘ and then I told him that just as soon as I 've finished with the Crowninshield twins I shall be sailing away — ’ she clinked her glass on mine , ‘ with you . ’ |
| 27 | It suddenly occurred to me that just as I wanted the boys to dress according to Western ideas when they were in London , so the Sheikha and Sheikha Grandmother would like me to dress according to their ideas of fashion when I was with them . |
| 28 | We 've already seen that just as we have different tastes , so we all have different sensitivities . |
| 29 | Omar said that just as the crowd was becoming angry with impatience in the hot sun a young woman of about twenty-five years of age was roughly pulled out of a police car . |
| 30 | Before we move on , it is worth noticing that just as the debate about the Bible rested to a large extent on a rather dubious notion of what kind of authority was in question , so too the argument about miracles was one in which both sides generally shared an equally questionable concept . |