Example sentences of "[conj] it did in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potential political and economic gains ensure that the impetus towards a currency union in Europe is likely to prove much stronger today than it did in the turbulent Seventies . |
| 2 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 3 | Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Even so , it seems that the species survived in the Tigris-Euphrates basin longer than it did in the vast area between there and the Punjab . |
| 5 | America 's federal government recently said it will rely far more on short-term debt to fund its huge deficit than it did in the past . |
| 6 | It is not to be expected , however , that the killing of the fatted calf for the prodigal son will evoke any more enthusiasm in his virtuous brother than it did in the scriptural parable . |
| 7 | And as you may be aware that er in , in , in in the local elections this year , in May , the Conservative Party did dramatically well , much better than it did in the general election yeah ? |
| 8 | Much of the major investment in this country 's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has been from BT , which has made a much bigger contribution to the Exchequer than it did in the 1970s , as it is more efficient , more productive , sells more services , makes more money and pays more tax . |
| 9 | This is partly because , as indicated earlier , the acquisition of the superego takes place in the modern individual in a different sequence of stages than it did in the culture , and partly because cultural psychological phenomena often present a clearly separated-out picture of their components whereas individual neuroses are often less easy to disentangle . |
| 10 | The green belt policy commands even wider support today than it did in the 1950s . |
| 11 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 12 | This is particularly significant for Marx since it means that the communal principle does not fully come into conflict with the interests of individual constitutive families as it did in the ancient city , a contradiction which ultimately led to further developments . |
| 13 | This process would continue indefinitely , with reversals taking place at intervals of as little as 100,000 years or as much as one million years , but with the overall result that the compass spent about as much time pointing in one direction as it did in the other . |
| 14 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Trained as they were , the psychiatrists on the screening tests had failed to scratch the surface of her most secret place ; had failed to detect the urge to self-destruction which would automatically bar her from G9 , as it did in the SAS and SBS . |
| 16 | More commonly , though still infrequently , the House of Lords will reject a Government Bill as it did in the case of the Parliament Bill 1947 . |
| 17 | The current flowing through the shunt is again controlled by an error detecting system in much the same way as it did in the series case , though the sense of the control has the opposite sign . |
| 18 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 19 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 20 | Well , he now has his stepmother to thank for the beautiful house that has been restored to look as it did in the 18th century . |
| 21 | In addition , the fear of imprisonment may instil the fear of rape into young , smooth , neat , corporate executives — as it did in the case of certain Watergate conspirators — and lead to a dramatic and welcome improvement in their behaviour . |
| 22 | Art follows wealth , it was said , as it did in the city-states of the Italian Renaissance ; and it may continue to do so , even if the new patron happens now to be democratic and many-headed . |
| 23 | The dispute — coming as it did in the aftermath of Tyndale — served to confirm the view that the teaching force was too independent . |
| 24 | Its main power over the economy lies in its control of the central bank , but Mr Yeltsin has made the bank promise that it will issue only a quarter as much credit in the second three months of the year as it did in the first . |
| 25 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 26 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , in a markedly more muted way , softness , where strength was expected , provoked ‘ messing about ’ , just as it did in the cycles of violent retribution described by our other informants . |
| 28 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 29 | Parliament may , as it did in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , lay down criteria governing the use of custody and the length of custodial sentences . |
| 30 | But what struck me about this particular outburst , emerging as it did in the midst of the most media-intensive war in history , was its implicit assumption about the gullibility of the British public . |