Example sentences of "[pers pn] behave as [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your guilt is due to harming others — or harming yourself — then try to understand why you behaved as you did . |
| 2 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 3 | The behavioural view says we behave as we do ( for example not stealing , not hitting others , not spitting in dining rooms , not going about naked and so on ) because we have learned to behave this way . |
| 4 | Being equipped with some kind of understanding as to how other creatures are put together gives us an excellent handle for comprehending how and why they behave as they do . |
| 5 | According to the first theory , which is the one the Greeks themselves prefer , they behave as they do in the public side of life because of what history has done to them . |
| 6 | With charming naivety , they do not imagine that they themselves are the source of it : they behave as they do when they see a frightened horse , becoming agitated and desirous of flight . |
| 7 | It can tell us : What sort of people the characters are Why they behave as they do What they are thinking |
| 8 | Instead , you try to work out why they behave as they do . |
| 9 | The study will produce a detailed description and analysis of what young women know about sexuality and about AIDS ; the ideas which they have about risk , danger and control in sexual encounters ; how they behave sexually ; why they behave as they do , and what factors are likely to constrain or to encourage change in their behaviour . |
| 10 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 11 | So we say ‘ Of course the cat believes the ball is stuck — it is conscious , its eyes work , why else would it behave as it does ? ’ but disallow that it might have the belief ‘ that it believes the ball is stuck ’ , this being linguistic ( Kenny 1975 : 5 ) . |
| 12 | This picture broke with the past by dispensing with the idea that everything in nature has a purpose or proper function , which explains why it behaves as it does . |