Example sentences of "it was just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the possessor of learning which he shared unselfishly with his students , making them feel it was just as much theirs as his . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was just as well that there did n't seem to be any extra business around tonight . |
| 3 | It was just as well Devoy clinched the issue in three games , for she admitted to being tired . |
| 4 | This was the greatest test for surfers , but it was just as much of an ordeal for journalists . |
| 5 | But luck does n't win cups and championships — policy does , and if there was luck , it was just as likely to go against Arsenal , as events were to show . |
| 6 | It was just as well , I thought , that the noise of the storm and the engines kept me from hearing what he said . |
| 7 | But perhaps it was just as well that she had this shock , for in her relief at finding the injury comparatively slight , she forbore to say very much about the unexpected guest . |
| 8 | But it was just as exciting , nevertheless . |
| 9 | It was just as well I did request an s.a.e. as over the next ten days I received over five hundred requests ! |
| 10 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 11 | Our only solace is that it was just as dire on all the other formats . |
| 12 | It was just as good as the first Home Alone . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was just as well . |
| 14 | Then , with that stoical and selfless streak in her character , she reflected that perhaps it was just as well he was not . |
| 15 | It was just as well he knew that , Masklin thought , because otherwise he 'd think it was Outside . |
| 16 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 17 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 18 | So it was just as well Old Red never allowed anyone on duty , including perhaps himself , to remember that he also was human — and still a good deal younger than General Francis . |
| 19 | And perhaps it was just as well because there , on the seat of the rag cart and sitting as patiently as the pony was standing , was Ben . |
| 20 | It was just as bad in 1980 and 1985 , but she won all the same . ’ |
| 21 | It was just as well that he did n't know my long-term aim was to be a pro golfer . |
| 22 | As Ho and other communists noted , amongst the European proletariat the issue of colonial emancipation was very much an also-ran in the 1920s ; and even after a bona fide Vietnamese communist party had been formed , it was just as irksome to them to have to accept the tutelage of the French Communist Party . |
| 23 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 24 | And it was just as well that she did so because Harry appeared at that moment , to lead her out for sherry and soda . |
| 25 | It was just as well that he would soon be yoked to Virginia , so that his desire for his headstrong gypsy would never be allowed free rein . |
| 26 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 27 | It was just as well they missed each other . |
| 28 | If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it . |
| 29 | It was just as well that Alan did decide to complete the diet after six weeks , as it turned out that many of his vitamin and mineral levels were sinking fast . |
| 30 | Kraal was inclined to say , fixing Woil with a glare and flexing his talons back and forth to make it clear that it was just as well there were three cages between them because if there were n't … |