Example sentences of "as it did [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But the sight and sound and stench of the cramped black hold of the slave ship flashed into the forefront of his mind , as it did every day . |
2 | The order of the day 's observances being immutable , whoever fell ill and whoever defaulted , the bell for Matins sounded in the dortoir as it did every midnight , and the brothers arose and went sleepily down the night stairs into the church . |
3 | Eric Cador , marketing centre director for Hewlett-Packard Co 's personal computer division in Grenoble , France is a contrarian and expects his own company to ship 2.4 to 2.5 times as many Vectras in Europe in the current quarter as it did a year earlier and he forecasts that revenue will double from the year-ago level . |
4 | Nicholson did not appear in the film and was used as a production assistant by Corman ; but it is worth mentioning because it was a significant moment in Hollywood history , inspiring as it did a succession of similar films when other producers noticed that The Wild Angels grossed eight million dollars in no time at all , and had been made on a shoestring budget . |
5 | The comradeship , energy and commitment of the core of the Working Party , comprising as it did a lot of very different people , was an example of the possibilities of uniting diverse interests and oppressions to the mutual advantage of all concerned , including management . |
6 | However , the Korean War stimulated the German economy , as it did the rest of Western Europe , and there was much unrealised potential after the years of occupation . |
7 | And apparently they believed it , as it did the trick . |
8 | After the opening of the Suez Canal , and especially after the construction of the railway up the Nile , Egypt became the place for those whose health forbade the damp autumns and winters of the north , combining as it did the advantages of climate , exoticism , monuments of ancient culture and ( at this stage still informal ) European domination . |
9 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
10 | The attraction of foquismo to many young , radicalised , middle-class Latin Americans is hard to overestimate , offering as it did the immediacy of a rapid solution and a legitimisation of their participation in the revolutionary process despite their non-proletarian origins . |
11 | Jessica dropped in a reference to the Playboy of the Western World , her eye on Rory , but it passed as far over him as it did the seamen . |
12 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
13 | Religion was important here , inculcating as it did the traditions of service and good works . |
14 | The Fund would review the Soviet economy in the same way as it did the economies of members , would provide the Soviet Union with technical assistance on agreed projects , would invite a Soviet representative to appropriate IMF executive board and other meetings and would " give favourable consideration " to requests from union republics for the extension to them of similar undertakings . |
15 | As it did the benches became the benches they had always been , and the litter bin no more than it simply was . |
16 | This one act of his expelled him into the wilderness more forcibly than any other , just as it did the novelist George Gissing in England . |