Example sentences of "just as [pron] do " in BNC.

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1 Investment banks too are starting to publish opinions on credit , just as they do on equities .
2 It is certain that the seas of 600 to 1000 million years ago swarmed with drifting medusae , just as they do at present .
3 He , like Beatty , manipulates women just as they do the media .
4 Large quantities of gas may be involved in the eruption of basaltic lavas ; when the lava is below ground , the gas is kept in solution in the molten rock , when the pressure on the lava is reduced the gases come out of solution and bubbles form , just as they do when a bottle of champagne is opened .
5 Maintenance labour cost vary somewhat around NZ , just as they do here , but against the UK 's average hourly £15 to £25 or so for single-engine aircraft , NZ engineers seem to charge the equivalent of £12 to £15 on average .
6 STAR STYLES : Girls fell for fashionable Phillip ( above ) yesterday , just as they do when he 's stripped to play Joseph ( left ) .
7 Coelenterates will resort to territorial squabbles in the aquarium just as they do in the wild .
8 The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass .
9 Successful salesmen in bucket shops scorn weak or moralising colleagues , just as they do all the clients .
10 The laws of science will hold at them , just as they do at the North and South Poles on the earth .
11 And I see nothing wrong with allowing certain rooms to be used as bedrooms , just as they do at any English Dormy House .
12 But within the fields of the subtle tattwas comprising the inner energetic format , matrix or tapestry which makes each creature what it is , each one also possesses subtle perceptive abilities , just as we do .
13 So it is not only the inward patterning of particular species which makes creatures different , but individual members of a species are different , too , and most species can distinguish fellow members of their kind by sight , sound , smell or other senses and probably by behavioural patterns too , just as we do among our fellow humans .
14 Many , if not all , birds and animal individuals have distinct voices , just as we do .
15 I believe that a picture , a work of art , lives and dies just as we do .
16 Just as we do not know what to do with our bodies when they are alive , disposing of them when they are dead presents greater problems .
17 We do not ask whether or not an axiom is " true " — just as we do n't ask if the rules of chess are " true " .
18 It is not possible , therefore , for there to be beings who behave just as we do but lack mental states such as pain .
19 In actual fact our children have feelings of joy and happiness and sadness just as we do , And they have they have the same emotions as we do .
20 The Americans do it much better having Thanksgiving to space it out so they only have a month of Christmas though they do seem to let their elections creep back just as we do with football … ’
21 Just as we do , walking a bit less
22 Just as you do not wish others to inflict their desires upon you , you must leave it to them to be free to follow their own direction in life .
23 You will find this card a real boon anywhere in Europe because it allows you to pay for goods and services with eurocheques , just as you do with ordinary cheques at home .
24 ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home .
25 ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now .
26 People younger than him , he noted , ‘ not only reject all a priori ideological filters , just as I do , but … refuse to have anything to do with people who use such filters .
27 ‘ How did people look after the sick and helpless ? ’ — ‘ Just as I do nowadays : I collect money from the people , and I give it to them .
28 ( I do not pretend to understand precisely how this occurs , just as I do not ‘ understand ’ why an apple falls to the ground .
29 I share the hon. Gentleman 's views in the context of the six-week-old baby , just as I do in the context of the children in the school playground who were under threat this morning when the attack was made on the taxi driver .
30 He has to settle down and marry one day , just as I do , has n't he ? ’
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