Example sentences of "as it did the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And apparently they believed it , as it did the trick . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Religion was important here , inculcating as it did the traditions of service and good works . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As it did the benches became the benches they had always been , and the litter bin no more than it simply was . |
| 11 | 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 . |