Example sentences of "as it does [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its defence , Smurfit would say that it is an international company and it should pay as much intention to its US hinterland as it does to London . |
| 2 | For the ‘ principle of parsimony ’ applies as much to our forward-looking human rights theory as it does to utilitarianism : offenders have a right not to have their freedom gratuitously diminished to a degree greater than is necessary to produce the desired reductivist results . |
| 3 | The eastern capital , in turn , influenced the Venetian culture and the architectural form which developed here owes as much to Oriental bias as it does to Italy , particularly after the passage of two or three centuries . |
| 4 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act applies to hire-purchase contracts in exactly the same way as it does to contracts of sale of goods . |
| 5 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act applies , with one small difference , to hire contracts as it does to contracts of sale of goods , hire purchase , barter and exchange , etc . |
| 6 | This London belongs to the city gents with their regimental ties and their polished shoes ; it belongs as little to a Celtic writer as it does to Surkov and Rozanov . |
| 7 | The performance does almost as much to acrobatics , comedy and theatre as it does to ballet but that is not to say the dancers do n't use their technical expertise to the full . |
| 8 | But you know the rest — this is just a tribute to three lovely unselfish children , and it may bring back some lovely memories , as it does to Pop and myself . |
| 9 | Recognising that the integrity of the learning process applies as much to adults in schools as it does to children . |
| 10 | It is a language which has to be learned , and this applies just as much to audiences as it does to movie makers . |
| 11 | This idea of flexibility applies as much to exercise as it does to food . |
| 12 | The layout can give as many messages to the pupils as it does to colleagues and senior management . |
| 13 | I suppose I was kicking over the traces a bit and parental authority seemed as irksome to me then as it does to teenagers today . |
| 14 | And it looks almost as dazzling on his Aussie pal Lady ‘ Kanga ’ Tryon as it does on Princess Diana . |
| 15 | The reported craving for yeasty foods is far more difficult to understand , since Candida does not feed on other yeasts as it does on sugar . |
| 16 | This country spends four times as much money importing weapons as it does on health . |
| 17 | Thus , what is said about the text is contingent on the nature of those institutions : it will differ across literate societies , as it does for instance between those with a tradition of novel-writing or of academic institutions etc. and those without , and its consequence will depend on the social role , functions and meanings of its practice . |
| 18 | Tivoli will be contributing its host management applications and Gradient Technologies Inc will provide its licence management software as it does for OSF 's DME . |
| 19 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 20 | There is a certain doubt as to whether the universe is old enough for any Black Dwarfs to have been produced as yet , but eventually it must happen , and this will be the final fate of the Sun — though we will not be there to see ; the Earth can hardly expect to survive the Red Giant stage , when the Sun will radiate at least a hundred times as fiercely as it does at present . |
| 21 | However , with social feeling about child sexuality running high as it does at present , we may be well advised to keep quiet about it in public ; while , if we ourselves feel guilt as to our own emotions in any such case , a knowledgeable and understanding senior or colleague may be able to help us — otherwise we would be well-advised to hand the case on to someone else . |
| 22 | And when the language of Shakespeare lives in the mouth and bloodstream of an actor , as it does with Richardson , it 's the most sensual , exciting experience you can have in theatre . |
| 23 | The region has many characteristics in common with Scotland , perhaps as many as it does with England . |
| 24 | Besides its low-profile Object Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service application integration scheme , it thinks that COSE might like Habitat , its technology for enabling an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix System V.4 on its OSF/1 system — and it would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away . |
| 25 | Besides its low-profile OMG Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service ( ACAS ) application integration scheme ( UX No 435 ) , it thinks COSE might like Habitat , its technology for allowing an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix SVR4 on its OSF/1 platform ( UX Nos 423 , 436 ) . |
| 26 | Likewise , light does not penetrate through water as well as it does through air , whereas with sound and chemicals it is the other way round . |
| 27 | That English tradition of the amateur is of course a long one , and by no means ignoble , reaching back as it does through John Morley to Walter Bagehot , to Burke , to Addison , and so all the way to Philip Sidney and the Renaissance all-round man . |
| 28 | It is suggested that the law should not demand " but-for " causation as it does in homicide . |
| 29 | The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) . |
| 30 | But in West Germany they are not political votes in the same overriding sense , because the outcome of constituency elections does not determine , as it does in Britain , how many seats each party will finally win . |