Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] does [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |
| 2 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World . |
| 3 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
| 4 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
| 5 | Tillyard engages with the mid-twentieth century as he does with the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |