Example sentences of "as it did [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 2 | The society now moved from the rather passive position of regretting ( as it did on 5 August 1789 ) that ‘ there was no appropriate educational establishment in England for the desired improvement of farriery ( in this context comprehending the medical treatment of horses , cattle and sheep ) by a regular education in that science on medical and anatomical principles ’ , to a positive position of recommending such an institution as had been established in France , Germany and elsewhere on the Continent , as being necessary in this country . |
| 3 | Around Malvern in Worcestershire driving snow slowed rush hour traffic to a crawl , as it did on high ground in Gloucestershire when overnight rain turned to snow at dawn . |
| 4 | But , as a concept determining the political and educational programme , it remained rather vague , standing as it did for all manner of virtues before a spectrum of interests . |
| 5 | Two years after the photograph had been taken Nasser came to power in a nationalist revolution which signalled the end for the European community in Alexandria , as it did for European domination of Egyptian affairs . |
| 6 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
| 7 | Consequently the project became as concerned with curriculum issues as it did with linguistic ones . |
| 8 | A third technique was to sell off a proportion of the whole operation , as it did with British Telecom , British Gas , British Aerospace , and Britoil ; and British Rail was made to sell off its hotels . |
| 9 | Oakenfold 's version of ‘ Cloud 8 ’ was the only well executed or timely attempt ( coming as it did during last summer 's mellow months ) , and is included on the four track limited edition giveaway , ‘ The Baby Album ’ . |
| 10 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 11 | Perhaps because Western Christianity tended to express the faith in more rational and conceptual terms , mysticism never became as normative in popular and official piety as it did in other traditions . |
| 12 | Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity . |
| 13 | In a constructional sense the arch never dominated Italian Romanesque work as it did in northern Europe ; it remained as in Roman times , more decorative than constructional in its purpose . |
| 14 | The transmutation of elements has an important place in modern nuclear physics ( as it did in mediaeval alchemy ) but ran completely counter to the aims of Dalton 's atomistic programme . |
| 15 | ‘ The detestation of ‘ the profiteer ’ by Labour' , comments one historian , ‘ arose as much from an affront to its patriotism , as it did from latent class consciousness , and the victim of capital was seen as the patriotic community no less than the working class … . ’ |
| 16 | Bacon 's case , occurring as it did after eighteen years of Stuart rule , can not be taken as evidence for judicial corruption under the Tudors . |
| 17 | Certainly the popular press fuelled doubt , focusing as it did upon particular schools which were in temporary disarray , and the failure of a few teachers was applied indiscriminately to the whole workforce . |
| 18 | When the volume of work increased , as it did throughout central government , the wind of change hit the Lord Chancellor 's Office with particular force because it started from such a tiny base . |