Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] do as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I would fetch an answer and he smiled as though he knew my lord is not here , and replied that my lady would do as well , in fact better . ’ |
| 2 | Solid boards would do as well but would make a much heavier bellows . |
| 3 | Now Mill concedes that the guardian , the despots might manage the affairs of the state tolerably well that there 's no reason of principle why a very enlightened despot could n't do fairly well , although Mill claims that no despot could do as well as a good democracy . |
| 4 | ‘ There is no particular reason for using it — many other things would do as well ’ , he commented . |
| 5 | ‘ If it comes to it , ’ he said , ‘ a sand-filled sock would do as well as anything . |
| 6 | The crux of the argument — the impetus of the Girls into Science and Technology ( GIST ) , Women into Science and Engineering ( WISE ) and INSIGHT schemes — is that more girls must take up science subjects ; girls must do as well as boys . |
| 7 | Their lordships would do as well to use an Electronic Random Number Indicating Machine . " |
| 8 | Now it is true that , as we have seen , the GCSE is intended to test what a candidate can do as well as what he knows and understands ; it is intended , therefore , that the oral part of the examination in languages , including English , shall have a more central importance . |
| 9 | The Weavers ' Company would do as well as any other in the circumstances , especially since his cousins , as silk weavers , were already members of it . |
| 10 | I ca n't think of anyone who does as many things as Madonna can do as well . ’ |