Example sentences of "as did [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent the summer in hard training in the gym and on the track in preparation for the coming season , as did many other players . |
| 2 | Pauling thought both structures would actually exist , as did many other crystallographers engaged in unravelling the three-dimensional structures of proteins . |
| 3 | There had already been some friction with the head of the Catholic Church in Spain , Cardinal Gomá , and with General Queipo de Llano ; the monarchists disliked the Falange , as did many military men ; and some Falangists harboured resentment over the 1937 unification of parties . |
| 4 | I shall begin — as did other hon. Members — by congratulating the hon. Member for Gateshead , East ( Ms. |
| 5 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who has a great interest in education , spoke for a long time , as did other hon. Members on both sides of the House . |
| 6 | Sudanese Communist Party secretary-general Mohammed Ibrahim Nugud also benefited from the amnesty , as did all political detainees and exiled politicians — subject to a proviso that those accused of corruption should be tried by the courts . |
| 7 | The nominee of the more reformist social democratic faction , Georgi Pirinski , not only lost the leadership to Videnov ( who received 428 votes out of 608 on the second round after Lilov had withdrawn in his favour ) but failed to gain a seat on the supreme council , as did former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov . |
| 8 | A total of 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries from 158 countries witnessed the Emperor 's formal accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne , as did 2,500 Japanese guests . |
| 9 | The Crusaders also left a legacy to the Arabs , as did those other invaders who came and went . |
| 10 | Paul Mba Abessole , a prominent opposition figure and leader of a faction of the main opposition group , the National Rectification Movement ( Morena ) , refused to accept a Cabinet post , as did some other opposition politicians , on the grounds that they had not been consulted on the composition of the new government , which included a number of ministers from the outgoing Cabinet . |
| 11 | A minority approved , as did this departmental head , the greater emphasis being placed on factual information : ‘ I welcomed the national curriculum . |
| 12 | Around 50 died ( 19 during ceasefires ) , as did 20 Slovene militiamen . |
| 13 | A deputation from the right-wing 92 Group visited her that evening , as did three ministerial members of the No Turning Back Group . |
| 14 | It was also said to possess curative powers , as did several other plants which incorporate the name of the Virgin Mary or the saints in their Gaelic names . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Antrim , South ( Mr. Forsythe ) raised the problem of the personal allowance , as did several hon. Members . |
| 16 | Norse raids down the west coast had already made it necessary to move sacred relics from St Columba 's isle of Iona to relative safety at Dunkeld in Perthshire , which became the ecclesiastical centre of the Scottish realm , though kings continued to be buried on Iona , as did several Viking chieftains . |
| 17 | German counter-attacks , though frustrated , followed , as did more torrential rain . |