Example sentences of "as it did [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement .
2	The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago .
3	There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago .
4	The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening .
5	Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) .
6	It is no good the Labour party seeking again and again — as it did this morning — excuses for why people offend .
7	The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago .
8	The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week .
9	Not surprisingly , it occasionally mislays one or two , as it did last week .
10	It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity .
11	Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’
12	Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago .
13	The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier .
14	The document noted that foreign debt was a threat to social peace and the stability of democratic systems in Latin America , restricting as it did social services budgets .

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