Example sentences of "as [pron] do [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ You have very similar motives in someone as charismatic as David as you do in the mute lad I played in Trapped In Silence . |
| 2 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 3 | ‘ No other archaeological museum relates as we do to the ancient lands of the Bible ’ . |
| 4 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |
| 5 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 6 | The Pentland Hills are viewed increasingly as an area with high recreational potential , lying as they do on the very doorstep of Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 8 | Where things sometimes go wrong , as they do in every large organisation , the new adjudicator will be there to review complaints and offer an impartial view . ’ |
| 9 | Freud 's view here is Comtean ; he thinks in terms of three stages for the progress of civilization , beginning with the animistic phase , to which modern obsessional or paranoid neurotics regress , going through an intermediate phase of religion , which is different from the first because people give the powers and omnipotence to gods , and not to themselves as they do in the magical phase of animism . |
| 10 | But do people behave in laboratory situations as they do in the real world ? |
| 11 | However , when they were discussing the historical development which led to capitalism , as they do in The German Ideology and Formen , they stress , by contrast , the continuity in structure between different stages and the universality of the historical process . |
| 12 | According to the first theory , which is the one the Greeks themselves prefer , they behave as they do in the public side of life because of what history has done to them . |
| 13 | The other terms , for example , are all the same in each market , so on averaging they occur in the same form as they do in an individual market . |
| 14 | In the case of the letter and the drawer , the signs fail in their indexical function because , appearing as they do in an isolated expression , they simply direct us into a void . |
| 15 | The UGC Earth Science Review found that many research students learn as much from each other as they do from the academic staff . |