Example sentences of "as [pers pn] do [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the child workers at the mine , suffering as they did such long hours and the effect of the physical demands of their labour , would be constrained from attending evening classes . |
| 2 | This approach to surgical research is again unacceptable , ignoring as it does much excellent research that is responsible for real improvements in patients ' care . |
| 3 | Significant other : no wonder the phrase has such a popular current usage , combining as it does two all-time favourites of late philosophical jargon — the semiotic sign and the mysterious alien . |
| 4 | He began by arguing that adaptive radiation in the animal kingdom produces diversity and specialization , but that such a process may as commonly entail a structural atrophy , as in the case of parasites or cave fish , as it does some directional increase in complexity . |
| 5 | The Tribunal had held that the offer , involving as it did such dramatic alterations to employees ' contracts , was not reasonable . |
| 6 | The erosion of consensus politics overtook local government as it did many other areas of public life . |