Example sentences of "as it did [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tribunal had held that the offer , involving as it did such dramatic alterations to employees ' contracts , was not reasonable . |
| 2 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 3 | If anything , his face was even more horrific , lacking as it did all but a travesty of humanity ; despite his animation , it still most resembled a helmet , a metal helmet with visor down , roughly shaped to conform to the outlines of a human face . |
| 4 | The last tiny flicker of hope seemed to die inside her , and as it did all the lights in the grand chamber went out . |
| 5 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 6 | The erosion of consensus politics overtook local government as it did many other areas of public life . |
| 7 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 8 | Marxism grotesquely underestimated the power of nationalism , as it did that of religion . |
| 9 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 10 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 11 | ‘ It falls to me , as it did first with Peter Shilton and then with Terry Butcher , to place on record on behalf of the Football Association what he has done for his country . |
| 12 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 13 | A considerable number of the newly enfranchised capital class now ally their interests with the top echelons of society , rather than help sustain the old political coalition of interests , encompassing as it did much of the working class , and significant parts of the lower-middle and middle class . |
| 14 | In the 1980s , north-western output expanded , as it did nationwide . |
| 15 | It is no good the Labour party seeking again and again — as it did this morning — excuses for why people offend . |
| 16 | And apart from this exacerbation of old quarrels at the level of official and formal relations , religion lost some of its hold on the masses as it did less and less to provide channels for social protest . |
| 17 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 18 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 19 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 20 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 21 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , it occasionally mislays one or two , as it did last week . |
| 23 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 24 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 25 | The document noted that foreign debt was a threat to social peace and the stability of democratic systems in Latin America , restricting as it did social services budgets . |