Example sentences of "as [adv] [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 2 | But the process does n't work ( that is , accord with our intuitions ) anything like as powerfully as it does in music . |
| 3 | The silence may not last — but for as long as it does , the government has a chance to strengthen France 's macroeconomic foundations . |
| 4 | It takes as long as it does for a dog to douse a tree trunk . |
| 5 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 6 | It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did . |
| 7 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 8 | ‘ It sounds lousy , but the great advantage to Celeste — and the reason why our relationship survived for as long as it did — was that she never had much of an impact on either my feelings or my thoughts . |
| 9 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
| 10 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 11 | It does n't come to me as easily as it does to you . " |
| 12 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 13 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 14 | Without the work of these dedicated men and women the Church could not progress as rapidly as it does . |
| 15 | The evolution of oxygen in this process occurs as rapidly as it does in photosynthesis . |
| 16 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 17 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ And perhaps I should remind you that the contract you 've just cited binds you as securely as it does us , unless you 're willing to face interminable legal hassles in an effort to extricate yourself . ’ |
| 19 | Whether it should happen as often as it does is open to doubt . |
| 20 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 21 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 22 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |
| 23 | While the greening of the electorate was rapidly taken aboard and she was impressed by the fact that acid rain could damage international relations as surely as it did stonework and trees , what caught her imagination were the profound implications of what was happening to the chemistry of the deeper atmosphere . |
| 24 | UK , Cambridge-based Tadpole Technology plc is touting its Sparcbook notebook as fetching 12.6 SPECmarks , 12.7 SPECint and 12.5 SPECfp , slightly faster than the IPC workstation from Sun Microsystems Inc , claiming it performs integer intensive applications equally as well as it does floating point applications : the Sparcbook is now on the GSA schedule being peddled to the US government by C3/Telos — Genstar Rentals in Palo Alto , California is renting it out . |
| 25 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 26 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 27 | We wo n't get the coach parties if the show ends as late as it does now . ’ |
| 28 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |