Example sentences of "[adv] as did " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after the revolution the two strata coalesced to form a ruling class which repressed and exploited workers and peasants as brutally as did the capitalists of the West . |
| 2 | So the tradition of ‘ arrangiarsi ’ , of having a network of ‘ contacts ’ ( ‘ He who has more saints gets to Paradise , ’ they say in Naples ) and of having rock-like families to protect you if you did n't make out , grew as naturally as did the Mafia and the Camorra as systems of rough justice and violent ‘ government ’ . |
| 3 | Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and wife Madeleine , below , dropped in as did King Constantine of Greece and Lady Thatcher . |
| 4 | He did not assert his claims for the structure and rites and liturgy of the Church of England as highly as did the divines of the next century . |
| 5 | Jazz rhythms emerged as easily as did the eastern element and music of genuine integrity was the result . |
| 6 | Many Christians continued to take part in traditional Roman festivities ; they sometimes shocked their bishops by dancing in church , getting drunk at celebrations in the cemeteries , consulting magicians , or resorting to charms to cure their troubles , just as did other people . |
| 7 | She told me , just as did you a moment ago , about being put to bed and the sprinkling of holy water — but I could still not see what all the fuss was about ! |
| 8 | My argument here with Dennett is that if he intends interpretations ( a ) or ( b ) ( a textual quotation here would be beside the point , since these distinctions are not made in his paper in that form ) , then those are inferior explications of consciousness to a process one in terms of level : ( b ) because it lacks the ‘ unity ’ requirement , and ( a ) because , although it could meet all the necessary conditions set out earlier , it seems in some way arbitrary , just as did Minsky 's supreme organizing module . |
| 9 | Stefan Edberg and Jim Courier both reached the men 's quarter-finals comfortably as did Michael Chang and Michael Stich . |
| 10 | His uncle 's wealth , the chauffeur-driven limousine which brought him to and from school , cut him off as securely as did his own past . |
| 11 | And this morning we got as far as did n't we ? |
| 12 | The trip to Italy went well as did the few days when one of the twins , ( full name Alexander ) was with us . |
| 13 | ( 2/10 ) Against Huddersfield ( 1–1 9/10 ) and Scunthorpe ( won 2–0 16/10 ) Smithard played well as did Tony Grant who got two and Martin Littlewood who bagged one . |
| 14 | Mick disapproved of Memet as strongly as did the rest of her family , but Memet either did n't know or did n't care . |
| 15 | Josiah Wedgwood built his fortune on tea as surely as did investors in the East India Company . |
| 16 | Between 1982 and 1988 , the balance of agency provision shifted markedly as did the nature of that provision . |
| 17 | Could it triumph , with its Galileos , Einsteins , Picassos , Beethovens and Aristotles — thinkers and seers of Pacific origin , who will one day come to imprint their views and creations as firmly as did their Mediterranean and Atlantic forebears ? |
| 18 | Yanto laughed again as did Sheila , who had also been watching the old man 's antics . |
| 19 | There is nothing implausible in the argument that peasants , especially better-off peasants , managed their holdings , and their familial strategies , as adroitly as did some people higher up the social scale . |
| 20 | Both Valse triste and the ‘ Berceuse ’ from The Tempest are no doubt glamorized but powerfully felt , and in the ‘ Berceuse ’ Stokowski evokes the magical atmosphere of Prospero 's island as powerfully as did Beecham ( EMI , 7/90 ) . |
| 21 | Evidence of extent of planning programmes varied as widely as did descriptions of training undertaken . |
| 22 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
| 23 | Only a few states held out against Europe as staunchly as did Ethiopia . |
| 24 | The test certainly covers , and therefore condemns unequivocally , the American dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; it does , however , not deal as absolutely as did Pope John in Pacem in Terris with all possible aspects of modern war or even with every possible use of nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | Even the black goat and the white cock sacrificed in our hull for a safe and speedy passage now began to haunt us every bit as solemnly as did the ghosts of our investors in London . |