Example sentences of "as it did [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwinism entered into the panslavism of Danilevsky as it did into panteutonism . |
| 2 | But that , in turn , owed as much to the readiness of the Spanish conservative classes to believe it as it did to Franco 's skill in propagating it . |
| 3 | Having taken such measures , as it did on Aug. 6 , the Security Council could go further if sanctions " proved to be inadequate " , by taking under Article 42 " such action by air , sea or land forces as may be necessary to maintain international peace and security " , and specifically including blockade . |
| 4 | In 1972 the US spent three times as much on family planning programmes in the Third World as it did on health programmes . |
| 5 | No one ever looked ‘ a little lovelier each day with fabulous new Camay ’ — a bar of green Fairy soap worked as well on faces as it did on floors . |
| 6 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 7 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
| 8 | Shevers , who had already dropped the name Hawk 72 for the new aircraft , opting instead for ‘ Liberty ’ , says he is concerned that Textron , which already produces engines for light aircraft , may decide that resumption of single-engined aircraft production does not represent such an increase in its product liability exposure as it did for Cessna 's former parent General Dynamics . |
| 9 | But it was unlikely to remove what John McQueen called the sense of imprisonment , which might however generate , as it did for Walter Scott and Benjamin Haydon , a determination to escape . |
| 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 | Coinciding as it did with Alan 's trainee appointment to the firm of Lark and Clarkson , Architects , back in the city where he was born , the money marked the beginning of a new era in Alan and Carolyn 's married life . |
| 12 | If left too long in a situation of abandonment , the split is not healed and comes to be used as a predominant defence , as it did with Clive and Rose Greenacre . |
| 13 | When this happened , as it did with parole and financial compensation for criminal injuries , the seedbed was usually found in ‘ the surrounding world of penal thought ’ , rather than in any party political objectives . |
| 14 | Nizan 's entry to the AEAR and his initial involvement in Co in mane , coinciding as it did with Hitler 's accession to power , doubtless marked the beginning of a gradual transition to popular front politics . |
| 15 | Will regional programming continue under Channel 3 as it did under ITV ? |
| 16 | In World War I the traffic increased by way of the requirements of the armed forces , as it did during World War 11 . |
| 17 | The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left . |
| 18 | They were fighting for justice for the workers , a fine cause but one that had already proved useless in Russia , where the same old bureaucratic hierarchy held sway as it did in Spain . |
| 19 | Seurat 's Dimanche après-midi à l'île de La Grande Jatte moved towards the abstract and uniform in form as it did in content , thereby making class distinctions between the figures on a Sunday outing that he drew difficult to see . |
| 20 | Not only can the Commission assist complainants by bringing proceedings on their behalf , but it can also conduct a formal investigation , as it did in West Glamorgan . |
| 21 | If that happens — as it did in Poland after 1976 , paving the way for Solidarity 's triumph in 1980 — then the regime 's days will seem numbered . |
| 22 | But when consensus breaks down , as it did in Britain and the United States in the late 1970s , think-tanks become more avowedly ideological . |
| 23 | Even more surprisingly , this little black and white indictment of the National Health Service did almost as well in the United States as it did in Britain . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Adultery features in this novel , as it did in Stand We At Last and Here Today , another of her novels . |
| 26 | That means that the British Government could , as it did in September 1988 , simply decree that the courts can take a negative view of any defendant who chooses not to co-operate with the police , or take the stand in his or her own defence , as in the changes in the right to silence rules . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Time stopped here , as it did in space . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And yet ( p. 16 ) the geography of Italy and Sicily did not , as it did in mainland Greece , impose these divisions — there was , for instance , no shortage of good land for corn and cattle as the ears-of-corn coinages of Metapontum and Siris in southern Italy , or the Thurii bull , remind us . |