Example sentences of "[subord] it did [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 2 | Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science . |
| 4 | Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement . |
| 5 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 6 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 7 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 8 | Du Pont Pixel , formerly benchMark Technologies , started work early on this project — before a reference implementation suitable for other CPU architectures was available from SGI , so it did a bottom-up re-working of GL optimised for the Sparc RISC processor . |
| 9 | It was an old one — one of Groucho 's actually — but he smiled and relaxed a bit , so it did the job . |
| 10 | No one had a drink before the food arrived , but once it did the wine flowed freely : the best lambrusco , the best fortana and finally the moscato , a sweet , white , generally fizzy wine made with selected muscatel grapes . |
| 11 | If it did the yield at yesterday 's 84p , down 5p , would be 6.3 p.c. and the multiple about 30 . |
| 12 | taking it cos it did the same thing . |
| 13 | Designed to nip in the bud any incipient growth in villages , it was successful , so far as the city was concerned , probably because it did no more than sanction the existing situation , even though in the fifteenth century the trade had flourished at Hartlebury , which remained an important centre of the specialised craft of fulling . |
| 14 | Encore Computer Corp must be wondering whether it did the right thing in selling the Annex server product line to Xylogics Inc . |
| 15 | Output only declined during part of the period , but when it did the geographical pattern was the same as for employment . |
| 16 | But the sight and sound and stench of the cramped black hold of the slave ship flashed into the forefront of his mind , as it did every day . |
| 17 | The order of the day 's observances being immutable , whoever fell ill and whoever defaulted , the bell for Matins sounded in the dortoir as it did every midnight , and the brothers arose and went sleepily down the night stairs into the church . |
| 18 | Nicholson did not appear in the film and was used as a production assistant by Corman ; but it is worth mentioning because it was a significant moment in Hollywood history , inspiring as it did a succession of similar films when other producers noticed that The Wild Angels grossed eight million dollars in no time at all , and had been made on a shoestring budget . |
| 19 | The comradeship , energy and commitment of the core of the Working Party , comprising as it did a lot of very different people , was an example of the possibilities of uniting diverse interests and oppressions to the mutual advantage of all concerned , including management . |
| 20 | Eric Cador , marketing centre director for Hewlett-Packard Co 's personal computer division in Grenoble , France is a contrarian and expects his own company to ship 2.4 to 2.5 times as many Vectras in Europe in the current quarter as it did a year earlier and he forecasts that revenue will double from the year-ago level . |
| 21 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 22 | And apparently they believed it , as it did the trick . |
| 23 | The development path taken by the northern countries , involving as it did the rapid and large scale expansion of the manufacturing and service sectors and the absorption of ‘ surplus ’ rural labour , is not an option available to the majority of southern countries . |
| 24 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 25 | Following as it did the enormous publicity that surrounded the child abuse allegations in Cleveland , Nottingham , and Rochdale , Orkney Islands Council were strangely unprepared for the wide interest their own case attracted . |
| 26 | This reversed the action of the pitch , elevator and tail rotor channels so that the model handled in exactly the same manner inverted as it did the normal way up . |
| 27 | This one act of his expelled him into the wilderness more forcibly than any other , just as it did the novelist George Gissing in England . |
| 28 | Religion was important here , inculcating as it did the traditions of service and good works . |
| 29 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
| 30 | However , the Korean War stimulated the German economy , as it did the rest of Western Europe , and there was much unrealised potential after the years of occupation . |