Example sentences of "[adj] as it do " in BNC.

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1 However , with social feeling about child sexuality running high as it does at present , we may be well advised to keep quiet about it in public ; while , if we ourselves feel guilt as to our own emotions in any such case , a knowledgeable and understanding senior or colleague may be able to help us — otherwise we would be well-advised to hand the case on to someone else .
2 But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago .
3 Besides its low-profile Object Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service application integration scheme , it thinks that COSE might like Habitat , its technology for enabling an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix System V.4 on its OSF/1 system — and it would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away .
4 Besides its low-profile OMG Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service ( ACAS ) application integration scheme ( UX No 435 ) , it thinks COSE might like Habitat , its technology for allowing an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix SVR4 on its OSF/1 platform ( UX Nos 423 , 436 ) .
5 ‘ I do n't suppose it matters in the Foreign Office as much as it does in some other spheres .
6 The Church of the Latter Day Saints abhors divorce and abortion as much as it does alcohol and caffeine .
7 They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields .
8 The whole profession functions much as it does today , but with one crucial difference : most of what they believe is nonsense .
9 It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ .
10 In the food industry , the rice grown by Japan 's protected farmers costs several times as much as it does abroad .
11 Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists .
12 Problem solving can require ideas as much as it does information .
13 The contract I signed legally binds the station as much as it does me .
14 Doing things communicating with people verbally can mean a lot more now sometimes with a lot of bureaucracy you can get sucked in to putting everything down on paper but it does n't mean as much as it does when it 's face to face communication .
15 I readily acknowledge that in Scotland the Crown has no direct interest in sentence in as much as it does n't , in contrast with Russia or America , request the court to impose a specific sentence .
16 It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer .
17 But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century .
18 The specimen shown has both its original valves preserved , and looks today much as it did when it had just died .
19 You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors .
20 The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier .
21 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 .
22 In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word .
23 Indeed , it is conceded by the representatives of the parties to this appeal that an order made in the terms made by the justices was not open to them in as much as it did not impinge upon the parental responsibility of the parent concerned and impinged only upon contact between the parents themselves .
24 It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away .
25 It threatened him as much as it did his victim .
26 The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago .
27 First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes .
28 How dared he ? she mourned as she sank down on her bed and gasped for breath , and knew then that Naylor Massingham 's low opinion of her would n't hurt anywhere near as much as it did , had she not just realised that she was desperately in love with him !
29 From the street the terrace looks much as it did when Lorimer and Miller had finished their works nearly 200 years ago .
30 Was n't bad play back when I fi oh it 's not not doing as much as it did before now !
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