Example sentences of "it did [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 2 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ But in the meantime , even coughing could break Joanna 's ribs — which it did many times . |
| 6 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |
| 7 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember when we first came here on honeymoon it did wonderful things to you , Stephen . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Though it did n't leave any physical signs , ‘ it did untold damage , ’ says Homer . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It did funny things to her insides — she thought it was about time to study the menu . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Alcatel Cable SA , Douvrin , France is increasing its optical fibre production to meet demand — when two new plants come on full stream in the middle of next year , annual output will grow to 930,000 miles from the 590,000 miles it did last year , bringing it close to the current number two , AT&T Co , but still way behind the 1.25m miles produced annually by Corning Inc . |
| 18 | Next Computer Inc is going try to stage a NeXTWorld Expo without leaning on Uniforum by holding it at the same time like it did last year . |
| 19 | The National Gallery must be very satisfied to have concluded as it did last week . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , it occasionally mislays one or two , as it did last week . |
| 21 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
| 22 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 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 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 25 | It is no good the Labour party seeking again and again — as it did this morning — excuses for why people offend . |
| 26 | It did this time , too . |
| 27 | Now we know that such a deformation can not take place in a polymer , for if it did some atoms would move relative to their topological nearest neighbours by far more than covalent forces would allow , dissociation would occur ( chain scission ) and the nature of the polymer would change . |
| 28 | The computer made slightly fewer incorrect diagnoses than its human rivals , although it did less well in making firm diagnoses . |