Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as did " in BNC.

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1 Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere .
2 Only a few states held out against Europe as staunchly as did Ethiopia .
3 Both Valse triste and the ‘ Berceuse ’ from The Tempest are no doubt glamorized but powerfully felt , and in the ‘ Berceuse ’ Stokowski evokes the magical atmosphere of Prospero 's island as powerfully as did Beecham ( EMI , 7/90 ) .
4 Evidence of extent of planning programmes varied as widely as did descriptions of training undertaken .
5 So the tradition of ‘ arrangiarsi ’ , of having a network of ‘ contacts ’ ( ‘ He who has more saints gets to Paradise , ’ they say in Naples ) and of having rock-like families to protect you if you did n't make out , grew as naturally as did the Mafia and the Camorra as systems of rough justice and violent ‘ government ’ .
6 And after the revolution the two strata coalesced to form a ruling class which repressed and exploited workers and peasants as brutally as did the capitalists of the West .
7 He did not assert his claims for the structure and rites and liturgy of the Church of England as highly as did the divines of the next century .
8 Jazz rhythms emerged as easily as did the eastern element and music of genuine integrity was the result .
9 And this morning we got as far as did n't we ?
10 His uncle 's wealth , the chauffeur-driven limousine which brought him to and from school , cut him off as securely as did his own past .
11 Mick disapproved of Memet as strongly as did the rest of her family , but Memet either did n't know or did n't care .
12 Josiah Wedgwood built his fortune on tea as surely as did investors in the East India Company .
13 There is nothing implausible in the argument that peasants , especially better-off peasants , managed their holdings , and their familial strategies , as adroitly as did some people higher up the social scale .
14 Could it triumph , with its Galileos , Einsteins , Picassos , Beethovens and Aristotles — thinkers and seers of Pacific origin , who will one day come to imprint their views and creations as firmly as did their Mediterranean and Atlantic forebears ?
15 Even the black goat and the white cock sacrificed in our hull for a safe and speedy passage now began to haunt us every bit as solemnly as did the ghosts of our investors in London .
16 The test certainly covers , and therefore condemns unequivocally , the American dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; it does , however , not deal as absolutely as did Pope John in Pacem in Terris with all possible aspects of modern war or even with every possible use of nuclear weapons .
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