Example sentences of "as do [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had exploited this idea as doing more justice to the nature of life and movement and the discovery of truth than the older rationalist insistence on the ‘ law of non-contradiction ’ . |
| 2 | In may respects , my shop is just the opposite , although I certainly have a health foods section , as do many delicatessens . |
| 3 | I fear , as do many others , that the start of the rot was the forced repatriation of the Vietnamese from Hong Kong . |
| 4 | As do many insects , spiders , beetles , ants , butterflies and moths . |
| 5 | An elegant mill house adjoins the mill , as do several barns , all constructed of mellowed local stone . |
| 6 | Mr Grovey likes to appear cool and trendy ( as do most teachers under thirty ) , but for Mr Grovey the attempt at an up-to-date image is ruined by his liking for wearing highly patterned , sleeveless pullovers of the sort seen hanging in charity shops the length and breadth of Britain . |
| 7 | A number of plums , including the varieties ‘ Czar ’ , ‘ Victoria ’ and most gages and damsons , will set on their own , as do most acid cherries , but ‘ Stella ’ and ‘ Cherokee ’ are the only self-fertile sweet cherries at the moment . |
| 8 | Despite most eventers having to be clipped fairly frequently , Ambassador has a very fine coat , as do most entires . |
| 9 | Predators may select prey in order of abundance , as does the barn owl , for instance , in which case they preserve the original pattern of equitability , or they may select less abundant prey preferentially , as do most mustelids , in which case they change it . |
| 10 | There are many more , far too numerous to mention here , but The Body Shop stock a good selection of aromatherapy oils as do most health food sores . |
| 11 | But it is none the less effective for that , and it would be wrong to see it , as do some liberals , as a superstitious remnant from a blighted past . |
| 12 | When pressed , Clematis montana leaves and tendrils turn almost black , as do some orchids , and several autumn leaves , including Japanese maple , become burgundy . |
| 13 | Are we to understand that all work , when not alienated , is to provide the same freedom for the creative development of mind and feeling as do those pursuits we may choose to follow when our time is our own ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nanno received a pension , as did all policemen who joined when under thirty years of age and who served for twenty or more years . |
| 18 | Former Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Agamemnon Koutsogiorgas faced related charges , as did former Finance Minister Dimitris Tsovolas and former Public Order Minister Giorgos Petsos . |
| 19 | If he had won , he would certainly not have snubbed the Oscar-night celebrations as did that year 's recipient of the Best Actor Award , George C. Scott , for Patton . |
| 20 | The dust burned ; as did any populace who lived in that plate , supposing they had survived the plunge of their factory-homes . |
| 21 | Sam howled with laughter , as did those people who were around the cage at the same time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There is nothing implausible in the argument that peasants , especially better-off peasants , managed their holdings , and their familial strategies , as adroitly as did some people higher up the social scale . |