Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] it do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music . |
| 2 | It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk . |
| 3 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 4 | It does n't come to me as easily as it does to you . " |
| 5 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 6 | The evolution of oxygen in this process occurs as rapidly as it does in photosynthesis . |
| 7 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 8 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 9 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 10 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 11 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |