Example sentences of "[adv] as it did [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 2 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 3 | Just as it did during the mass exodus in the weeks before the Berlin Wall was built , the state propaganda machine is claiming that the current wave of emigration is due to a campaign organised by West Germany to lure their people away . |
| 4 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in a markedly more muted way , softness , where strength was expected , provoked ‘ messing about ’ , just as it did in the cycles of violent retribution described by our other informants . |
| 6 | An ounce of silver costs an affordable 225p , just as it did in 1976 . |
| 7 | Some think that he will go abroad for a few days and the CIA will then engineer his return in a countercoup , just as it did in 1953 . |
| 8 | If the borrower of bank A uses the overdraft to pay people who bank with banks B , C , etc. then the increase in the money supply appears in their deposits just as it did in the single bank case . |
| 9 | Heritage Weekend is being celebrated at National Trust properties all over the province on Saturday and Sunday , including Castle Ward near Strangford where the newly-restored cornmill will be producing flour , just as it did in its heyday , on both days ( 2.30pm-5pm ) . |
| 10 | The row blew over as it did for Kurt Weinburg , who was taken out by an older friend for a night on the town . |
| 11 | The rope hung behind , exactly as it did in the picture . |
| 12 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 13 | The food that India produces does not find its way to the people who need it as efficiently as it did in the Maharashtra drought . |
| 14 | It 's a great feeling when you try something and it works out as it did in Cardiff back in 1982 when we beat Wales 34–18 and ended their 14-year record of home invincibility . |
| 15 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 17 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 18 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 20 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 21 | The smell of oil clung to her as strongly as it did to the rags in the van . |