Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as they do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coelenterates will resort to territorial squabbles in the aquarium just as they do in the wild . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 3 | In January nineteen forty , a scientist named Charles Barrell , er was examining that portrait , not as an art historian , but scientifically , and of course there 's always the question with portraits of what might be under it , because er canvas was very very expensive and people did n't waste materials then as they do now , because they were in relatively short supply , good painting canvas . |
| 4 | Hydrangea florets can be picked and pressed in the autumn when they are a lovely green shade with reddish tinges , although you may have to choose your bush carefully as they do not all have the same density of colour . |
| 5 | People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts . |
| 6 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 7 | He , like Beatty , manipulates women just as they do the media . |