Example sentences of "as did [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1967 Israel assumed , as did many others , that since the Palestinian Arabs had not achieved nationhood they would soon assimilate into the Arab host countries neighbouring Israel , if the latter had half a mind to allow it to happen . |
| 2 | Japanese mainframe makers pursued this ‘ IBM-compatible ’ strategy , as did many entrants to the micro-business , from Silicon Valley to South Korea , by producing ‘ IBM clones ’ . |
| 3 | Rather than regarding the relationship as essentially adversarial , as did many observers twenty years ago , the issue is now one of searching for ways to allow the two parties to co-operate to promote their mutual interests . |
| 4 | While the latter left no verse epistles , Sidonius did , as did other writers whose works are preserved in the Epistulae Austrasiacae . |
| 5 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 6 | He later attempted such elucidation , as did other philosophers , notably his one-time pupil Edmund Husserl . |
| 7 | Nanno received a pension , as did all policemen who joined when under thirty years of age and who served for twenty or more years . |
| 8 | On Sept. 18 alone , 700,000 people marched through Sao Paulo demanding Collor 's resignation , as did 300,000 demonstrators in the north-eastern city of Recife on Sept. 23 . |
| 9 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 10 | Among these a need for cross-curricular study featured prominently , as did various areas where curricular provision had yet to be developed ( e.g. the tutorial programme , a life-skills ' curriculum , curriculum provision for the able child ) . |
| 11 | Abscisic acid , another plant hormone , caused underwater shoots to grow aerial leaves , as did higher temperatures and when mannitol was added to the water . |
| 12 | Jospin himself , hitherto a Minister of State , left the cabinet , as did five Ministers ( four PS members and Brice Lalonde who had been the sole representative of Génération Ecologie ) . |
| 13 | By Faraday 's time , the problem was more acute ; electrically charged objects were known to repel or attract each other , as did magnetic poles . |
| 14 | The Alfonsists , now led by the tough and ambitious José Calvo Sotelo , helped things along with money and important contacts , as did leading cedistas including Gil Robles himself . |
| 15 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 16 | In relation to US banks they had to hold non-interest bearing reserve balances related to the size of their deposits , as did German banks in the Federal Republic . |
| 17 | The superintendent 's report asserted that though prostitutes did ply their calling on the common they conducted themselves in an orderly manner , as did large numbers of respectable , well-dressed courting couples who ‘ roamed about the place after dark caressing each other ’ . |
| 18 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
| 19 | He realised , as did later choreographers , that the steps and patterns of such material had to be properly displayed to the audience , not just danced for themselves . |
| 20 | In spite of the recent popularity of travel books , writing about travel is nothing new ; the ancient Greeks and Romans wrote accounts of their journeys , as did medieval pilgrims and merchants . |