Example sentences of "just as [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as they defy access , they defy organization by outsiders . |
| 2 | Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) . |
| 3 | It 's a lovely world , beautiful world but it 's the people in it you see who are spoiling things so much and I do n't understand youngsters you see but because young people erm there , there was a time when youngsters just er do just as they like and they were n't reprimanded by the parents , whereas my parents were very strict you see and it did n't do me any harm and I 'm glad now that they were . |
| 4 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 5 | It must be stressed that after a certain time has elapsed , individuals will interact with the researcher just as they will with anyone else , notwithstanding the possible inhibiting effect of recording equipment . |
| 6 | Political theories and doctrines are both affected by political conditions and the needs of practical action , just as they influence them in turn ; and changes in these conditions are largely responsible not only for the more or less continuous process of reinterpretation of the ideologies of political parties and movements , but also for the more profound revision of theoretical conceptions . |
| 7 | There are hundreds of arcades in London , and people become addicted to these machines just as they become addicted to drugs . |
| 8 | Just as they clean up all the trash and litter , they also clean up the earth and the sky , transmogrifying cars , turning tools , parts , weapons , bolts into carbon and iron . |
| 9 | It 's putting a power into the hands of faceless Directors , picked by the Government , just as they pick their friends to head up the privatised National Industries . |
| 10 | Anger is ignored as much as possible , as with angry children , but when it becomes too manifest , people physically remove themselves , just as they flee from outsiders . |
| 11 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 12 | Joe steals two bus tickets to Miami , but Ratso dies just as they reach the place of his dreams . |
| 13 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |
| 14 | She also mentions that they are aware of our love and concern , and asks us to keep praying , just as they remember us in their prayers . |
| 15 | This would have been a stage towards the best-remembered dance sequence in the film , prominently featured in That 's Entertainment ! ( 1974 ) , when they go ‘ Dancing In The Dark ’ in a fantasy Central Park , she in a pleated white skirt and flat shoes , he in a light sport jacket and slacks , just as they 've come from rehearsal . |
| 16 | They have to promote themselves now just as they 've got to get bums on seats as they say . |
| 17 | Just as they shape and tear clear |
| 18 | It means rather that people act as though they know the principle just as they act as though they know the rules of grammar — though very few people can even begin to formulate them , and nobody can formulate them completely . |
| 19 | Animism was likewise low and primitive because it was said to imply that souls inhabit animals and trees just as they inhabit men . |
| 20 | Children come across written numbers , just as they come across written words , long before they are able to read or understand them . |
| 21 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 22 | Norwich lost key components of their team in the run-up to the Everton game — just as they have for tomorrow 's tie . |
| 23 | But since some writers do seem to have an aversion to the hyphen — just as they have lost the art of splitting words in the logical places ( tran-sport , winds-creen , ins-pector , screwd-river , etc ) — let them run them together for clarity . |
| 24 | Spectacular scientific advances have come from them just as they have from other institutions . |
| 25 | Obviously , the real nasties , Sun readers , are just as they have always been , vile and pretty anti-gay . |
| 26 | It 's hard for him to accept that everyone is different in every aspect of their biology — men have different sperm counts just as they have different numbers of hairs on their head or different eye colours . |
| 27 | To use the language of Moscovici and his co-workers ( Moscovici , 1982 , 1983 , 1984 ; Jodelet , 1984 ) social psychologists need to gather information about the social representation of ‘ prejudice ’ in majority discourse , just as they have studied the social representation of minority groups . |
| 28 | And now I realize that people still lie , steal , and fight , just as they have always done , and probably will always do . |
| 29 | Eventually the price of such devices will fall and PostScript recorders will become the norm — just as they have with typesetting . |
| 30 | As Peter Medawar pointed out many years ago in his classic essay Is the scientific paper a fraud ? these essential elements in how research is done get refined out from the account as it appears in the finally published papers or scientific reviews , just as they have largely , though not entirely , been filtered from the discussion of Aplysia and LTP in the last chapter . |