Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] as it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Marxist historian Michael Chanan the halls were merely ‘ tools of commercial exploitation ’ but a more balanced view would rely on an appreciation of the way in which ‘ live ’ variety revealed as much about showmen as it did about ‘ humanity at large ’ . |
| 2 | as if this were not bad enough , the great mudflow rolled on into the sea at the mouth of the Riviere Blanche , setting up a series of waves as it did so , one of which was powerful enough to capsize the yacht Precheur moored off the river mouth . |
| 3 | It 's trying to do the same work with the smaller amount of blood as it did with the full amount , ten pints perhaps reduced down to seven , got to keep pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , pump , because that little bit of blood has got to get round and do a lot more work now , okay , so the blood 's rushing round and the heart is pushing faster because it 's having to , because it 's not enough of the , not so much pressure there , that 's why it feels weak , weak and fast , okay ? |
| 4 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 5 | I never asked her , but I do n't imagine oral penetration figured as high on her list of priorities as it did on mine , and she could probably have done without the anal variety altogether . |
| 6 | The scythe of time creates superiority of title as it does seniority of age . |
| 7 | Apprenticeship indentures amongst the Inland Revenue records in the Public Record Office show , however , that by the second decade of the eighteenth century the geographical distribution of the craft in the Midlands had been largely determined ; shortly afterwards Daniel Defoe observed , ‘ One would scarce think it possible so small an article of trade could employ such multitudes of people as it does , for the whole country seems to be employ 'd in it ’ . |
| 8 | The veiled glance she sent Silas also swept Lucy , taking on a glitter of warning as it did so . |
| 9 | Darwinism entered into the panslavism of Danilevsky as it did into panteutonism . |
| 10 | The most notable takeover was by the rosebay willow-herb ( Epilobium angustifolium ) which flourishes throughout London as it does in other cities . |
| 11 | When making an interim care order a court has the same duty to consider arrangements for contact as it does when making a final care order . |
| 12 | It is especially good for people with allergies as it does n't harbour dust . |
| 13 | Recognising that the integrity of the learning process applies as much to adults in schools as it does to children . |
| 14 | The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left . |
| 15 | ( Two hundred years earlier , as she demonstrates in her article , it was not seen as arbitrary , but prescribed quite explicitly on the grounds that the masculine was the ‘ worthier gender ’ and must take precedence in grammar as it did in nature . ) |
| 16 | Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity . |
| 17 | Seurat 's Dimanche après-midi à l'île de La Grande Jatte moved towards the abstract and uniform in form as it did in content , thereby making class distinctions between the figures on a Sunday outing that he drew difficult to see . |
| 18 | The Unilever product cost twice as much per ounce in Barbados as it did in England , and by driving out cheaper local alternatives the end result for the lower income consumer in Barbados was a product that was too expensive , too well-packaged and often surplus to requirements . |
| 19 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 20 | It is a language which has to be learned , and this applies just as much to audiences as it does to movie makers . |
| 21 | Much of what has been discussed in this section applies as much to children as it does to teaching staff . |
| 22 | No one ever looked ‘ a little lovelier each day with fabulous new Camay ’ — a bar of green Fairy soap worked as well on faces as it did on floors . |
| 23 | Mechanically , it works almost as well on land as it does in water , so that providing a creature can find a way of breathing , there is little to prevent it walking straight out of the sea and up the beach . |
| 24 | The camouflage not only works well among trees , scrub or rocks , but also hides its wearer as efficiently by night as it does by day . |
| 25 | ‘ Except in the celebrations that greeted the end of World War II , I have never seen England look as unashamedly delighted by life as it did during the World Cup , ’ Arthur Hopcraft has written . |