Example sentences of "it did in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process would continue indefinitely , with reversals taking place at intervals of as little as 100,000 years or as much as one million years , but with the overall result that the compass spent about as much time pointing in one direction as it did in the other . |
| 2 | Trained as they were , the psychiatrists on the screening tests had failed to scratch the surface of her most secret place ; had failed to detect the urge to self-destruction which would automatically bar her from G9 , as it did in the SAS and SBS . |
| 3 | America 's federal government recently said it will rely far more on short-term debt to fund its huge deficit than it did in the past . |
| 4 | More commonly , though still infrequently , the House of Lords will reject a Government Bill as it did in the case of the Parliament Bill 1947 . |
| 5 | In addition , the fear of imprisonment may instil the fear of rape into young , smooth , neat , corporate executives — as it did in the case of certain Watergate conspirators — and lead to a dramatic and welcome improvement in their behaviour . |
| 6 | The process of development of a new nation may itself intensify nationalist sentiment — as it did in the case of older nation states — and give rise to major international rivalries and conflicts . |
| 7 | This is partly because , as indicated earlier , the acquisition of the superego takes place in the modern individual in a different sequence of stages than it did in the culture , and partly because cultural psychological phenomena often present a clearly separated-out picture of their components whereas individual neuroses are often less easy to disentangle . |
| 8 | Perhaps there had been a hint of the rain slackening ; anyway , it did in the minute he waited in the car . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The dispute — coming as it did in the aftermath of Tyndale — served to confirm the view that the teaching force was too independent . |
| 11 | And er it also did a rent about I do n't know what about fifteen twenty feet deep that 's all it did in the wall . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But what struck me about this particular outburst , emerging as it did in the midst of the most media-intensive war in history , was its implicit assumption about the gullibility of the British public . |
| 14 | Art follows wealth , it was said , as it did in the city-states of the Italian Renaissance ; and it may continue to do so , even if the new patron happens now to be democratic and many-headed . |
| 15 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 16 | With the BBC ‘ illustrating ’ the cluster bombing of Iraqi airfields with an arms manufacturer 's demonstration video , tv 's claim to ‘ show it like it is ’ in 1990 appears as obscene as it did in the Falklands war . |
| 17 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 18 | The rope hung behind , exactly as it did in the picture . |
| 19 | For one thing , it is doubtful if OPEC could have successfully imposed the price increase at the time it did in the absence of the high levels of demand that accompanied the mini-boom . |
| 20 | The current flowing through the shunt is again controlled by an error detecting system in much the same way as it did in the series case , though the sense of the control has the opposite sign . |