Example sentences of "but just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just as the mere thought of the long run is liable to blight any work on which one is engaged , so the thought of a tone distinct from though inseparable from the shit is guaranteed to bring even the most promising project to a halt . |
| 2 | But just as adolescence brings about major changes in your body , most women experience some physical and emotional change during the menopause . |
| 3 | But just as the loss of self is the precondition for the discovery of a more ‘ real ’ because unconflicted , unrepressed self , so the precondition for pastoral sublimity is the loss of history , and once again the landscape which crystallizes desire , in such remarkable images , is also effaced by it : |
| 4 | Snow does have a certain corpuscular arrangement , which fits it to produce ideas of coldness and of whiteness in us ; but just as there is nothing in fire resembling our idea of pain , so there need be nothing in snow resembling the whiteness and coldness it appears to have . |
| 5 | I bought the sandwich and carefully peeled away the Cellophane , but just as I lifted it to my mouth the train lurched violently over a siding , making the bottles clatter in the drinks trolley and causing all the meatballs to jump off the bun , like sailors abandoning a burning ship . |
| 6 | But just as the people in Exodus 16 , when first given the manna , found it hard to come to terms with God 's meticulous generosity , so now they are blinded by the clarity of God 's judgement . |
| 7 | But just as the narrator has difficulty in piecing together the fragments of her story , so we as readers are never able to see the whole picture . |
| 8 | But just as in the case of advice , and for the very same reasons , such grounds for recognizing the authority of another , even though sometimes good , are always deviant grounds . |
| 9 | But just as not all genes that can replicate do so successfully , so some memes are more successful in the meme-pool than others . |
| 10 | Calypso is a specifically Trinidadian musical form , but just as later Jamaican reggae stands as the archetypal Black music , so in this period does calypso . |
| 11 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 12 | He heard the door close behind him , but just as he reached the gate it was hurriedly opened again and a voice called , ‘ Just a moment ! |
| 13 | But just as these new politics have been developing at the local level , so too we need new theories and new concepts to take account of them . |
| 14 | But just as the overall form of our body remains the same , despite the constant replacement of the atoms and molecules of which it is made , so is the overall form of nature maintained as identifiably the same old physical universe , though the pattern may alter markedly over the course of time . |
| 15 | But just as adolescence brings about major changes in your body , most women experience some physical and emotional change during the menopause . |
| 16 | But just as some marriages can at times feel suffocating , so they may at others feel uncomfortably distant . |
| 17 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 18 | But just as women now demand for themselves greater freedom to express different facets of the self , so too do some men , although not nearly so many of them . |
| 19 | But just as she was burying her head beneath the blanket in utter dejection Ella came to bed , and she passed on the most extraordinary piece of news . |
| 20 | Horses , like people , all have their strengths and weaknesses ; but just as we all get on with some people and are not keen on others , so one horse can be a success with one owner and a disaster with another . |
| 21 | But just as Jesus and the following crowd passed under Zacchaeus ' perch , Jesus stopped and looked straight up at him . |
| 22 | The first loop , or sideways circle will be erratic and recovery somewhat haphazard : but just as with riding a bicycle , all the reactions begin to come naturally and in no time at all , even as early as the third flight , you will be diving and climbing at will . |
| 23 | Perhaps you would like to do something similar with mine — but just as you prefer . |
| 24 | But just as Muslims and Croats had very good reasons to leave Yugoslavia once recognition was granted , so , too , did many of Bosnia 's Serbs have very good reasons not to . |
| 25 | But just as the concept of a ‘ classless society ’ clashes with backing for private education and health care , so the concept of an integral Britain is at odds with the Thatcherite penchant for demolishing or weakening existing national structures . |
| 26 | On the one hand there 's Little Liz , and on the other there 's Lovebite ; but just as I think I 've made a decision , the image of Lord Lane comes into my mind and I get all confused again . |
| 27 | More subtle than corruption , but just as damaging to the judicial process , were variations in court procedure which must have seemed arbitrary to many Sri Lankans . |
| 28 | Nothing very special here , then , to herald the arrival of little William ; but just as that year brought in the new , so it took away the old : Benjamin Titford the Outrider 's widow Elizabeth , 70 years old and paralysed , died in Shoreditch Workhouse on 12 September . |
| 29 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 30 | The expected train eventually arrived , but just as it approached , one channel of the recorder inexplicably failed , ruining the recording . |