Example sentences of "does [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If competitors and circumstances are regarded as the " enemy " then It makes as much sense for a corporation to have alternative objectives as it does for a military commander . |
| 2 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 3 | Between palace and castle runs the processional route of the Royal Mile , for long the arena for the city 's most important activities , climbing as it does up a narrow ridge cramped between steep slopes carved out by ancient glaciers to either side . |
| 4 | God values Elaine Dodswell because she does what she does with a good grace . |
| 5 | Anna undertakes all she does with a disarming cheerfulness and delightful charm . |
| 6 | A local authority has the same powers and duties under an interim care order as it does under a final order subject only to the court 's power to limit the duration of the order and make directions for examination and assessment . |
| 7 | Johns ( 1991 : 10–11 ) makes similar claims with respect to topic-prominent vs. subject-prominent languages : ‘ in a topic-prominent language linear arrangement follows the scale of CD far more closely than it does in a subject-prominent language ’ . |
| 8 | These tendencies were carried much further by the younger men , Gibbons , Coprario , the younger Ferrabosco , Thomas Lupo , and a number of others , who would base a short section on a popular morris-dance tune ( as Gibbons does in a four-part viol fantasy ) and use motives more clear-cut in rhythmic profile sequentially as Giovanni Gabrieli does . |
| 9 | Buus does in a few cases revert to earlier material or in one instance , as we have seen , achieve cohesion at the expense of monotony by basing a whole piece on a single idea . |
| 10 | My right hon. and learned Friend will understand that the west midlands conurbation , lying as it does in a landlocked area , is responsible for the bulk of the country 's manufacturing industry , and that it depends on adequate and improving road conditions . |
| 11 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 12 | However , elation at the beauty of the surroundings meant tandooried legs were far from my thoughts , and as we continued to the shapely Sgurr an Lochain , towering as it does over a tiny dark blue lochan , we agreed it could n't get much better . |
| 13 | The importance of the protestant variant should not be underestimated given the extent of religious practice and the power of religious men within the protestant — loyalist bloc and the grave importance of conceiving of one 's position as absolutely irreproachable , depending as it does on a divine source . |
| 14 | The paralleling of Sweeney and the Cyclops here does on a small scale the work of the anthropologists ' comparative method , ‘ to make manifest the similarities and identities underlying the customs of races very remote in every way from each other ’ , though both are part of the ‘ mind of Europe ’ . |
| 15 | In short , it does on a small scale what America wants the World Bank to do on a bigger scale . |
| 16 | Also , in this situation , the elevator control behaves more like it does on a fixed-wing model rather than as it does on a hovering helicopter . |
| 17 | Also , in this situation , the elevator control behaves more like it does on a fixed-wing model rather than as it does on a hovering helicopter . |
| 18 | Listening to children reading has dominated the early stages of reading instruction for several decades , and still does to a great extent . |
| 19 | However , the issue is discussed here as it does to a certain extent relate to customer and supplier contracts that are being assigned . |
| 20 | In linguistics , a defined class of written marks or letters of the alphabet , standing in the same relationship to a grapheme as a phone does to a segmental phoneme . |
| 21 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |