Example sentences of "as they do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having waited long enough to see if they were needed , the two girls went up to Moran and kissed him on the lips as they did every night . |
| 2 | On the radio the Voice of Moscow was retelling their fifty per cent of the story of the Vietnam war , and every half-hour or so large green helicopters flew overhead as they did every day . |
| 3 | Angel 's parents would have taken poor lonely Tess to their hearts immediately , as they did every other lost soul , without thought of family or education or wealth . |
| 4 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 5 | It is impossible to exaggerate the importance that the Danakil attached to this practice , rating as they did a man 's prowess by the number of his kills ; many raids were undertaken principally for this purpose . |
| 6 | The events of that year , combining as they did an enormous outflow of dollars ( the overall deficit for 1971 of $30 billion exceeded by 70 per cent the cumulative total for the previous ten years ) with considerable ‘ cashing in ’ of dollars for gold in the weeks preceding the suspension of convertibility , reduced massively the extent of potential gold backing for the dollar . |
| 7 | They stopped to listen and as they did the knocking stopped . |
| 8 | The Calvinists detested the Lutherans almost as much as they did the Catholics but , as Wedgewood has observed : ‘ The fundamental issue was between revealed and rationalised belief . ’ |
| 9 | But of greater significance , ultimately , was the attempt by youth workers , social scientists , educationalists , and politicians to solve a number of social problems whose effects stretched well beyond young people themselves , involving as they did the economy , labour , racial hygiene , and political stability . |
| 10 | But who would think of refusing Lucy 's invitations , providing as they did the last vestige of a social occasion within the enclave ? |
| 11 | Joey watched from his vantage point on the floor as they did the deal . |
| 12 | How many pieces of expensive jewellery , or very collectable coins , did these Victorian visitors lose as they did the social round and took their cures ? |
| 13 | She must go round the district like one of those fishes with a kind of fishing net in their jaws , sucking up all the information as they did the little fish . |
| 14 | Is there any evidence that bats have " discovered " it too , just as they did the send/receive system ? |
| 15 | On the whole , I hope that there is sufficient material in the book for analysts of any persuasion to make a start on the process of using system ideas to investigate and understand human activity ; at the same time , systems students and researchers may well benefit by studying some of the interpretations and practical examples given here , reflecting as they do a Weltanschauung with which they may not be familiar . |
| 16 | Figures taken from an American survey indicated that ‘ learners retain about 10% of what they read , 20% of what they hear , 30% of what they see , 50% of what they see and hear , 70% of what they say as they talk and 90% of what they say as they do a thing ’ . |
| 17 | Handwritten ephemera have a special interest , bringing as they do a sense of intimacy , of closeness to the people concerned , that does not belong to the printed word . |
| 18 | Such views have an ideology behind them ( though not necessarily a conscious one ) , involving as they do a decision that the language of ‘ the Oxford Common Room and the Officers ’ mess ' is an appropriate object of study , whereas that of ‘ illiterate peasants ’ is not ( Wyld , 1927 ) . |
| 19 | for it is clear that the recitals , containing as they do a statement of the reasons for the measure adopted , facilitate an interpretation of the operative Articles of a measure in accordance with its purpose . |
| 20 | Out into the street again from the chippie , warm smelly parcel telling your hands and nose you 're still alive , feet remembering as they do every day to avoid the broken-up pavement in front of the pub . |
| 21 | On Saturday night , volunteers from Blackbird Leys community centre provided — as they do every year — a free dinner and social evening , drinks and gifts for 250 local pensioners . |
| 22 | It seems to ignore the way in which existing fares are calculated' including as they do an element of ‘ taper ’ to avoid long journeys made up of several different sectors ‘ bolted together ’ from becoming too high : again something which would be difficult to replicate in a situation where the railways were operated by numerous regional franchises . |
| 23 | When giving instruction in thermal soaring , I try to insist that students go on attempting to find lift until about 5–600 feet , and I very often explain my own thoughts and precautions as they do the flying . |
| 24 | He , like Beatty , manipulates women just as they do the media . |
| 25 | Round NME way the jury 's still out on their Jamie Reid-inspired stencils and spirit of '76 obstructionist shenanigans , suffice to say they 're not The Clash ( the on-stage aesthetics are all wrong for starters ) , owing as much to the confusion politics of glam as they do the confrontational blitzkrieg that was punk . |
| 26 | Family therapy techniques , emphasising as they do the role of the parents and the necessity for them being fully involved in solving their own problems , were considered helpful . |
| 27 | This upper part of Saint-Jean also has sections of the old ramparts , which are quite tame as these things go and now thoroughly civilian , overlooking as they do the main street or else the minute gardens of the houses of the old quarter . |
| 28 | Further , according to this more sophisticated inductivism , creative acts , the most novel and significant of which require genius and involving as they do the psychology of individual scientists , defy logical analysis . |
| 29 | Whether or not there is an agreement must depend on the facts of the particular case , and whether or not the decision of Vaisey J. was correct I consider that the facts of the present case , including as they do the letters of 12 June and 15 September 1986 , are not consistent with an agreement on the lines suggested . |
| 30 | In 1983 Mr St John Stevas promoted a private member 's bill , The National Audit Bill , which sought to give the Comptroller and Auditor General access to the accounts of nationalized industries so that his staff could investigate them as they do the accounts of government departments . |