Example sentences of "as it did in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour is not presenting itself for slaughter , as it did in 1983 and to a lesser extent in 1987 . |
| 2 | The growth rate in 1990 was expected to continue to decline as it did in 1989 , partly because of a predicted economic slowdown in the USA which was the destination of 30 per cent of Singapore 's exports . |
| 3 | For all the turbulence and excitement that erupted with the Gang of Four 's break with Labour in 1981 , Britain looked as much a two-party system at the end of the decade as it did in 1980 . |
| 4 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 5 | The reasons why the Eisenhower administration acted as it did in 1956 remain potent , especially when examined without the advantages of hindsight . |
| 6 | Although political ideology can play a significant part in re-shaping the penal system , as it did in 1964 through the influence of Crime — a challenge to us all , and to a lesser extent as it would have done had the Conservatives regained office in 1966 , incoming governments customarily do not pack in their baggage detailed blue prints on criminal policy . |
| 7 | But in 1989 , 1990 and 1991 the Extended HGSC Index underperformed , as it did in 1992 up to the date when this issue went to press . |
| 8 | Suppose that in the course of time the vowel /a : / in a particular language becomes open /α:/ , as it did in Southern Middle English in words of the type home , stone ( OE há0m , stá0n ) . |
| 9 | An ounce of silver costs an affordable 225p , just as it did in 1976 . |
| 10 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 11 | Perhaps because Western Christianity tended to express the faith in more rational and conceptual terms , mysticism never became as normative in popular and official piety as it did in other traditions . |
| 12 | He came into the room and poured himself a glass of water from the earthenware jug which stood , as it did in all the offices of Cairo , in the window so that the air currents could cool it . |
| 13 | Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity . |
| 14 | Some think that he will go abroad for a few days and the CIA will then engineer his return in a countercoup , just as it did in 1953 . |
| 15 | In a constructional sense the arch never dominated Italian Romanesque work as it did in northern Europe ; it remained as in Roman times , more decorative than constructional in its purpose . |
| 16 | Nearly all the world 's quinine came from Java , and , if Java fell into enemy hands ( as it did in 1942 ) , supplies would virtually cease . |
| 17 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 18 | Gironella 's solution was entirely individual : to focus on the art of the European past , looming large as it did in Latin American consciousness regardless of how often it had been declared dead and buried by Europeans . |
| 19 | The fact that the Collection will remain open this winter ( as it did in 1991–92 ) , and that the permanent collection , including paintings by Pegeen ( the founder 's daughter ) and glass sculptures by Egidio Costantini will be on display , would seem to counter recent criticisms of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation made by Peggy Guggenheim 's grandsons . |
| 20 | The transmutation of elements has an important place in modern nuclear physics ( as it did in mediaeval alchemy ) but ran completely counter to the aims of Dalton 's atomistic programme . |