Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] as [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believe that everyone should write as they do : not as well as they do , of course , but in the same fashion . |
| 2 | ‘ Not as well as you did . |
| 3 | ‘ Obviously not as badly as you did . ’ |
| 4 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 5 | She poured their tea and sat with a cup of her own by the fire , chatting away as easily as she did every morning . |
| 6 | He relaxed his roly-poly figure in the cart and let his piebald pony , who knew the way home as well as he did , trot ahead through the darkness of the berry-lined road . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | IBM Corp 's James Cannavino took some time out to explain exactly what Louis Gerstner is doing with regard to the company 's restructuring — Gerstner , he says , ‘ has stopped any organisation in IBM that was creating a subsidiary just for accounting reasons ’ — instead , he decided it was better to change the accounting practices — ‘ which is great ’ declares Cannavino , ‘ because it means that the accountants are staying up as late as we do now ’ . |
| 9 | Cannavino took some time out to explain exactly what Louis Gerstner is doing with regard to the company 's restructuring — Gerstner , he says , ‘ has stopped any organisation in IBM that was creating a subsidiary just for accounting reasons ’ — instead , he decided it was better to change the accounting practices — ‘ which is great ’ declares Cannavino , ‘ because it means that the accountants are staying up as late as we do now ’ . |
| 10 | In some ways , it is quite remarkable that Andrew turned out as well as he did . ’ |
| 11 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Throughout the round Alliss hit the ball almost as well as he did during a competitive career in which he won 23 Tour titles and represented Britain and Ireland eight times in the Ryder Cup . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 18 | ‘ What computers can easily do is to enable unskilled people to produce rubbish twice as quickly as they did before , ’ Forsyth remarks . |
| 19 | ‘ And when we are married , I 'm sure I can work twice as hard as I do now , and earn more . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps this is why it sleeps twice as long as we do , making up in length of slumber what it lacks in depth . |
| 21 | Snooker frames with Julian last about twice as long as they do with anybody else . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't go to the stationary cupboard quite as often as I did before , ’ says manager of quality and training , Claudia McCabe , one of 1000 managers . |