Example sentences of "as they do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He , like Beatty , manipulates women just as they do the media . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These words , capturing as they do the landscape in which most academic booksellers and publishers operate , were to resonate throughout the conference , for which change became a buzzword , a defining theme and animating principle . |
| 18 | The emotional investment in these activities is high , involving as they do the powerful maternal drive . |
| 19 | This development has made sight accounts more popular with many customers , offering as they do the benefits of a time account ( namely , interest ) but with instant access with no loss of interest , and cheque-book and debit-card facilities . |
| 20 | Erm if it is I wish the Ford Motor Company gave as much money to the Labour party as they do the I L O but one of the points they made there is that in their opinion the unemployment figure in Britain is approximately four to four and a half million people because of the way the figures are worked out and the goal post of working have been changed by successive Ministers of Employment since nineteen seventy nine . |