Example sentences of "as [pron] do for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think that you have got to regulate these things and choose couples , like you may , as you do for adoptive children and not , just like throw in anybody these things have got to be controlled . |
| 2 | As we do for any competitor , ’ says Barry Wheeler , assistant marketing director of Otis . |
| 3 | The Head and Governors have a special burden of responsibility as they do for all matters concerned with the running of the school . |
| 4 | The research of Geza Roheim , summarized in my Psycho-analysis of Culture , shows quite clearly that the oral period , for instance , does not have the same significance for Australian aborigine hunter-gatherers as it does for Melanesian agriculturalists ; and further that , in the former instance , the anal-sadistic hardly seems to exist ( with the consequent absence of sado-masochistic perversions or character traits in adults ) . |
| 5 | Editor , — Is it not time for the BMJ to set the same standards for the drug advertisements it carries as it does for scientific papers ? |
| 6 | ( For example , in channel flow with no variation of mean quantities in the x-direction , τ varies linearly across the channel as it does for laminar motion — the first integral of eqn ( 2.6 ) . ) |
| 7 | But , as a concept determining the political and educational programme , it remained rather vague , standing as it did for all manner of virtues before a spectrum of interests . |
| 8 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 9 | Barnacles were a fit subject for Darwin to work on , as he did for many years , because of their curious metamorphosis ; and also because of the way in which males have regressed to become merely vestigial in some species . |
| 10 | At that very second that we call upon the Lord , just as this dying thief called on him , the Lord will hear us and make his answer instantly the same as he did for this man . |
| 11 | Seldom had Sergeant Camb felt so sorry for anyone as he did for this woman who lay against the piled pillows . |
| 12 | If not , the batting options are almost limitless — including the possibility of Gooch dropping down the order , as he did for several one-dayers in India , and Mark Lathwell opening with Alec Stewart . |