Example sentences of "as did [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 100,000 people outside the Congress building celebrated , as did millions of people around the country ; one street demonstration completely blocked the city of Sao Paulo . |
| 2 | Only 12 per cent of married women had ‘ non-state pension ’ income from these two sources compared with 67 per cent of married men , as did 34 per cent of widows ( 60 per cent of widowers ) , 28 per cent of separated/divorced women ( 46 per cent men ) and 47 per cent of single women ( 46 per cent men ) ( ibid . , |
| 3 | Norris ended with two goals , as did fellow striker Dave Lancaster . |
| 4 | The party divisions between leading reformers such as Lloyd George , Mosley and Macmillan also hindered co-operation , as did personal hostility within political parties ( on all occasions between Mosley and Ernest Bevin in the Labour movement and intermittently between Lloyd George and Keynes in the Liberals ) . |
| 5 | Both Kepler Wessels and Adrian Kuiper , the respective captains , scored centuries as did Western Province opener Terence Lazard while World Cup squad batsman Mark Rushmere was also in the runs . |
| 6 | These sometimes interrupted the schedules , as did extensive reportage of elections , of local Assemblies . |
| 7 | More optimistically , facilities management company Northern Computing Services , acquired in May , returned to profit as did Integrated Engineering Products Ltd , which is seeing in 1993 with healthy order books . |
| 8 | His second wife also predeceased him , as did one of the two sons of his first marriage . |
| 9 | Midday came and passed , as did one o'clock and two o'clock , without the parade being ready to move off . |
| 10 | Another trick is for the dealer to buy his stock through a friend , particularly when he has special knowledge that the price will go up , as did one dealer on Helical Bar a well known property company in the UK whose share price then sky-rocketed from its post crash low . |
| 11 | The younger Walter , who seems to have succeeded his father in the service of the City of London as its official chronologer , remained on the council staff until 1660 , as did one of his brothers , a third having died in its service earlier , and a fourth having been appointed to the staff of the council in Ireland under Henry Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | In family B , all members had unique strains of H pylori as did one member of family M and the two unrelated individuals . |
| 13 | This hit carpets and furniture retailing particularly hard , as did new furniture fire regulations brought in by the European Commission piecemeal . |
| 14 | Mr and Mrs Martin 's Burble flock , run at 153m ( 500ft ) above sea level at Southwaite , near Carlisle , began , as did many of today 's most successful flocks , in the late 1970s . |
| 15 | Before 1967 Israel assumed , as did many others , that since the Palestinian Arabs had not achieved nationhood they would soon assimilate into the Arab host countries neighbouring Israel , if the latter had half a mind to allow it to happen . |
| 16 | Before the introduction of the workmen 's train , all the men from these two villages walked along the canal towpath to Wolverton , as did many afterwards who could not afford the fare . |
| 17 | Pauling thought both structures would actually exist , as did many other crystallographers engaged in unravelling the three-dimensional structures of proteins . |
| 18 | I spent the summer in hard training in the gym and on the track in preparation for the coming season , as did many other players . |
| 19 | The term ‘ gender ’ as applied to grammar originated , as did many other grammatical terms , in the linguistic scholarship of ancient Greece — it is usually credited to protagoras . |
| 20 | We could wear the liberal ‘ scientific ’ pair , as did many young trendy academics during the 1960s and early 1970s when the stars of interactionism and phenomenology were in the ascendant . |
| 21 | Not only were nearly three-fifths of the people here unable to scrape together sufficient personal property to reach the tax threshold of £2 , but none got the alternative of 20s. wages in the year , as did many in the Midland and southern counties who were in the same position . |
| 22 | He sought out Caratacus and stormed the strong defensive position he had chosen , but the British commander escaped , as did many of the British warriors , and attempted to win Cartimandua to his cause . |
| 23 | Rather than regarding the relationship as essentially adversarial , as did many observers twenty years ago , the issue is now one of searching for ways to allow the two parties to co-operate to promote their mutual interests . |
| 24 | Japanese mainframe makers pursued this ‘ IBM-compatible ’ strategy , as did many entrants to the micro-business , from Silicon Valley to South Korea , by producing ‘ IBM clones ’ . |
| 25 | There had already been some friction with the head of the Catholic Church in Spain , Cardinal Gomá , and with General Queipo de Llano ; the monarchists disliked the Falange , as did many military men ; and some Falangists harboured resentment over the 1937 unification of parties . |
| 26 | He voted for the Bill , as did two of the Liberals here , the right hon. Member for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) and the hon. Member for Inverness , Nairn and Lochaber ( Sir R. Johnston ) . |
| 27 | MP Tony Banks also resigned from the Labour front bench after the parliamentary debate on Jan. 21 , as did two other Labour front bench MPs after the debate on Jan. 15 . |
| 28 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The third party then exercised those rights , as did other minority shareholders owning 40% of the remaining 45% of the company 's share capital ; therefore 95% of the rights issue was taken up . |