Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] as it does " in BNC.

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1 Even so , the same rule applies as it does to the lectern : never let the speaker adjust the screens to fit his height .
2 So , although we know that the phenomenology of motion-perception varies under differing conditions , we do not understand why our experience varies as it does .
3 The fire researchers can not say why the smoke behaves as it does — only that the movement is far more complex than they believed .
4 If priming effects arise because of residual logogen activation in the visual recognition system , then one can explain why priming occurs as it does .
5 On the contrary , it exposes the explanatory weakness of the Muller Doctrine , if it is offered as an advance in our understanding of the origin of different modalities of sensation , of why the world feels as it does ; and , even more , if it is offered as an account of our being able to feel the world at all .
6 When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does .
7 A form of writing that deals with the historical evolution of the landscape can be recommended to anyone interested in understanding why the English landscape looks as it does .
8 Empirical evidence of the participants ' interpretation of next turns is not available , and conversation analysts instead fall back on circular arguments , claiming that the conversation develops as it does by " orientation " to the same organizational devices which have to be taken for granted in order to get this interpretation of the data ( p. 120 ) .
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