Example sentences of "[adj] as it does " 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 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 .
3 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 ) .
4 ‘ I do n't suppose it matters in the Foreign Office as much as it does in some other spheres .
5 The Church of the Latter Day Saints abhors divorce and abortion as much as it does alcohol and caffeine .
6 They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields .
7 The whole profession functions much as it does today , but with one crucial difference : most of what they believe is nonsense .
8 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 ’ .
9 In the food industry , the rice grown by Japan 's protected farmers costs several times as much as it does abroad .
10 Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists .
11 Problem solving can require ideas as much as it does information .
12 The contract I signed legally binds the station as much as it does me .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Fundamental to the idea of finely divided ‘ niches ’ , however , is the notion that there are finite or limiting resources , whereas in trees in the tropics with abundant light , water , CO2 and a conservative nutrient-cycling system , this seems as inappropriate as it does in the case of tropical corals making up species-rich reefs , where food is not readily seen as limiting when compared with space to occupy .
16 if you hit something twice as big to what you 're hitting it 'll go twice as fast as it does with a snooker ball .
17 Another counterexample proposed by Stoyanov ( 1979 ) has proved to be incorrect as it does not satisfy the required boundary conditions ( see Section 10.2 ) .
18 The region has many characteristics in common with Scotland , perhaps as many as it does with England .
19 Inner conflict has as much potential for good as it does evil , for the conflicts experienced provide opportunities for mature choices , as well as self-luxuriating indulgences .
20 Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike .
21 Advertising is a one-way hard-sell in a political campaign and can be a good motivator as long as it does n't try to sell the voter something his guts tell him is n't true .
22 As long as it does not question the Islamic system , parliament can engage in genuine debate .
23 As long as it does not impinge upon another 's needs , get up and fight for your rights , your space and for your needs .
24 I 'll use technology as long as it does n't stop the song coming through .
25 ‘ ’ Do what you want ’ shall be the whole of the law' was a favourite catch phrase of the occultist Aleister Crowley , but in fact it is the ‘ law ’ of the private kingdom — with the added rider , ‘ as long as it does not interfere with other people 's personal preferences ’ .
26 As long as it does n't look too obviously like you , he 'll be thrilled .
27 Everyone has a right to live as they want , as long as it does n't harm others ’ , she says .
28 Well , as long as it does n't make me feel uneasy , I 'm a fairly tidy sort of person , so I do make the bed , and sort of tidy up in the bedroom , and I tidy up in here , when she 's gone to bed .
29 If you actually want to set up the society yourself , find ten little friends , come along , ten people giving the number you need to form a society one pound each for membership , I shall give you all the er relevant data and you can start up your side in whatever it be as long as it does n't contravene union policy on sexism , racism etcetera .
30 ‘ And Noah said to his wife as they sat down to dine , ‘ I do n't care where the water goes as long as it does n't get into the wine ’ , ’ Haverford quoted gleefully .
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