Example sentences of "just as it [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Produced in many parts of the Mediterranean , the oil has been a major trading commodity throughout history , just as it is today .
2 The octopus may have been speared by torchlight at night , just as it is today .
3 This is true of paper records , just as it is so for those stored in any other form .
4 It would be absurd for Eliot to advocate that head-hunting would reinvigorate British society , just as it is absurdly funny to listen to the description of Sweeney 's ‘ missionary stew ’ .
5 No I , I prefer using it just as it is quite frankly .
6 Just as it is now difficult to conceive of marketing without measurement , a PR agency seeking to change the perception of its clients … will begin by quantifying the scale of the problem … and the effect of its activities over time . ’
7 Just as it is almost impossible to apply what is now called the ‘ Japanese ’ system of management to other parts of the world , because of the differences of culture and background of the people who are working in industry , so it is equally unlikely that the particular , precise ways that I have found so useful will have the same application to others ; Nevertheless , since I have spent so much of my life developing these ideas it may be that some of my experience will hit a chord of recognition or cause others to reflect or contemplate .
8 ‘ Oh , come on , Rachel , it 's perfectly obvious you 've had words , ’ said Nina , and when Rachel remained silent she went on , ‘ Just as it 's perfectly obvious that you 're mad about each other .
9 It follows that the echolocation technology has been independently developed in bats and birds , just as it was independently developed by British , American and German scientists .
10 the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail .
11 However , as far as the market place is concerned , the LDP UK sales company is being run totally independently from any of the Stoddard sales companies — just as it was before .
12 Just as it was extremely difficult to get the liberal establishment to take on board issues to do with social class in the 1970s so too was it rare to hear feminism and the politics of gender discussed with any degree of seriousness or attention at any of their gatherings .
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