Example sentences of "just as the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the sky grew nearly as black as night , and I galloped into the hotel just as the most torrential downpour I have seen in my life cascaded from the sky as the waters of the Red Sea might have descended on Pharaoh . |
| 2 | Just as the most penetrating analysis of the human problems behind double blind drug trials is to be found not in any treatise of medical ethics but in John Rowan Wilson 's novel The Double Blind ( 1961 ) , so the stern and rigorous standards of experimental science are uniquely illustrated in Arrowsmith . |
| 3 | Gavin stuck his head out from under the duvet , giving me cause once more to marvel at the impressive way the lad 's shoulders merged into his head with no apparent narrowing in between ( this appeared to be the principal physical benefit bestowed by the game of rugby ; the acquisition of an extremely thick neck , just as the most important thing one could take to the sport was a thick skull , and from it an intact one still in satisfactory two-way communication with one 's spinal cord ) . |
| 4 | Just as the most difficult task of the manager is ruthless intellectual honesty about his own skills , weaknesses and motives , so it is notoriously difficult to be as near as possible totally objective about the strengths and weaknesses of your company , particularly because in many cases a perceived weakness can actually be utilized as a source of strength . |
| 5 | ‘ The problem of women is all that is marvellous and troubling in the world ’ sighed Andre Breton in the second Surrealist manifesto of 1929 ; and just as the predominantly male membership saw woman as their muse , the fueller of their fantasies and liberators of their imaginations , so they used her body as a vessel and vehicle for their wildest and often dark plumbings of the subconscious . |
| 6 | You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’ |
| 7 | The calmness , even dullness , of one partner may be containing and useful to an excitable other , just as the more emotive response of the latter may engage and bring spontaneity into an otherwise stable and ordered life . |
| 8 | ‘ Move ! ’ shouted Jimmy , and he and Rohmer pushed the filing cabinet to the top of the landing … just as the nightmarishly black and writhing shape of the thing below burst through the sundered door . |