Example sentences of "as [pers pn] do a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The events of that year , combining as they did an enormous outflow of dollars ( the overall deficit for 1971 of $30 billion exceeded by 70 per cent the cumulative total for the previous ten years ) with considerable ‘ cashing in ’ of dollars for gold in the weeks preceding the suspension of convertibility , reduced massively the extent of potential gold backing for the dollar . |
| 2 | The process which is generated becomes in effect an end in itself , creating as it does a working alliance within which both partners develop a shared approach to identifying and tackling goals and problems . |
| 3 | The precariousness of civilisation haunts The Faerie Queene as it does A Present View of Ireland . |
| 4 | Come 1983 and the opening of the Sizewell Inquiry was obviously an emotional moment for Borssele , involving as it does a new sister plant just across the North sea . |
| 5 | British radio works far closer to the texture of ordinary life than that , engaging as it does a deeper sympathy for a shared world of ordinary experience and a total lack of awe . |
| 6 | Yet the ‘ S ’ is more than capable of flying , kicking out as it does an impressive 145bhp . |
| 7 | It was against this background of ‘ stagflation ’ that monetarism increasingly became more influential , providing as it did an alternative explanation of the economic problems of the time as well as a potential remedy . |
| 8 | When he talked about the " transformation " of Algeria , as he did a great deal in 1959 and 1960 , de Gaulle slipped back into the rhetoric of his other association idea ( labour-capital association ) , a rhetoric which was influenced by the social catholicism of his early years . |
| 9 | John rolled his eyes as he did a rough calculation . |
| 10 | Tom 's latest acquisition is EMF 's Unbelievable and he makes the song as much his own as he did a few years ago with Prince 's Kiss . |
| 11 | Tuppe returned to Peter 's Pets , composing as he did an improbable yarn about animal rights activists and the forcible abduction of a furry fish , into a more than plausible truth . |
| 12 | Damian dragged Rachel to the Mercedes , thrust her in the front sea , got in beside her , started the engine with a roar and crunched the gears as he did an angry U-turn then roared up the drive with a screech of tyres . |