Example sentences of "as it do the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Unlike the essay on Gide , Nizan finds much that is positive in Friedmann 's analysis , particularly its historical dimension , stressing as it does the abject poverty of the masses and the arbitrary and oppressive power of orthodox religion prior to 1917 . |
2 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |
3 | The density of the development , achieving as it does the virtual replacement of existing static caravans practically one-for-one , is quite out of proportion with the density of surrounding settlements . |
4 | The JDS 's decision and the delay in making it has had serious repercussions for the profession , following as it does the unpopular decision to fine two Polly Peck administrators only £1,000 each ( the maximum possible at the time of the offence ) over conflicts of interest . |
5 | This reversed the action of the pitch , elevator and tail rotor channels so that the model handled in exactly the same manner inverted as it did the normal way up . |
6 | Following as it did the enormous publicity that surrounded the child abuse allegations in Cleveland , Nottingham , and Rochdale , Orkney Islands Council were strangely unprepared for the wide interest their own case attracted . |
7 | The adoption of a co-operative strategy in 1934 rapidly brought the PCF back into the mainstream of French party politics , capturing as it did the popular imagination of the French nation . |
8 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |