Example sentences of "as do [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 They exist ‘ merely as a means ’ which is only to say that , lacking language and self-consciousness , they are unable to plan and debate projects of their own as do moral agents .
2 Written communications are different because whilst what you write represents your behaviour even though you are not present , it is n't happening ‘ in flight ’ as do face-to-face behaviours .
3 They express a certain mental stance to the world which others are invited to accept or reject just as do factual statements , and as mere imperatives , exclamations and interrogatives can not .
4 Conrad and Rush ( 1965 ) showed that deaf children do not exhibit the same type of coding in memory tasks as do hearing children .
5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls nest on the cliffs periodically , as do Black Redstarts .
6 It may provide a government , as do European parliaments , or just legislate and oversee one , as in America .
7 The nation refers to itself not as " this sovereign land of ours " , as do other countries , but to " this , our land-and-water " — and considerable ritual effort is devoted to maintaining a balance between the two .
8 To suggest , as do other countries in the European Community , and the Commission itself , that there could be maximum daily doses of individual tablets prescribed , is not incompatible with saying that the products will continue to be freely available to all those who wish to use them .
9 If they wish to do so , companies should be able to have non-executive directors who do not have the same legal responsibility for its activities as do other directors .
10 We do not have to fear predators in the same way as do other animals , but because we are social beings and rely upon others for survival , learning and fulfilment in life , company is essential .
11 She therefore had to go into Intensive Care , as do other babies who may have had birth complications or other problems .
12 If it is true that , today as in 1869 , low-income families pay broadly the same percentage of their income in tax as do middle-income groups , then one needs to explain why a supposedly ‘ progressive ’ tax system has had this result .
13 A transfer test is an appropriate way of assessing the value of α since the Pearce-Hall ( 1980 ) model assumes ( as do similar models ) that the value of this parameter determines the readiness with which a CS will enter into associations .
14 They behave much as do similar characters found in the epics of other nations .
15 Many ‘ systemised ’ tanks combine all three ( as do external filters if you choose to load them that way ) but now in the BioLife unit Hagen have put together what is virtually the filter unit from a small systemised tank , complete with self-contained heaterstat , added the sort of wet-and-dry trickle filtration usually only available in under the tank units , and made the whole thing suitable for a three foot tank .
16 The evidence here is , perhaps , stronger ; published studies indicate significant improvements in functioning in many motor impaired children , as do personal accounts provided by the ever-increasing number of visitors to the Peto Institute in Hungary .
17 Areas of burning , such as hearths , give higher readings , as do filled-in features such as pits and ditches .
18 Women lose out , as do ethnic minorities , which renders the effects of patronage both wasteful and unfair .
19 Narrow ideas about the feminine inform the film , as do male fears about powerful women .
20 In may respects , my shop is just the opposite , although I certainly have a health foods section , as do many delicatessens .
21 I fear , as do many others , that the start of the rot was the forced repatriation of the Vietnamese from Hong Kong .
22 As do many insects , spiders , beetles , ants , butterflies and moths .
23 Perin ( 1983 ) has recently reported that good readers who are poor spellers have just as much of a problem with phonetic segmentation as do poor readers .
24 ‘ Political ’ pop need n't put text before textures , need n't deliver messages or manifestoes , or imagine that it can recreate ‘ community ’ , ‘ roots ’ or ‘ pride ’ ( as do senior ambassadors like Tracy Chapman , Elvis Costello and U2 ) .
25 You will also need a good selection of cloths for cleaning the pictures — pieces of linen work well , as do old T-shirts .
26 An elegant mill house adjoins the mill , as do several barns , all constructed of mellowed local stone .
27 Pollution , smoke , sunlight and extremes of temperature also have an affect on hair , as do fashionable hairstyles .
28 As do higher-order animals , as anyone who lives with a cat or a dog will confirm .
29 However , neither constituency MdBs nor list MdBs have quite the same conception of their responsibilities as do British MPs .
30 Warriors abound , as do apotropaic spiders and scorpions , mythic animals , and anthropomorphic deities .
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