Example sentences of "in a similar [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week in Lausanne , at the conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , Kenya , supported by the governments of Gambia , Somalia and Tanzania , is indulging in a similar exercise in political theatre . |
| 2 | Aid today in a similar proportion to American exports would amount to some $130billion , an unimaginably large figure . |
| 3 | In May at least 20 were reported drowned in a similar incident in heavy seas . |
| 4 | The obvious course of action — to dilute the imported spirit in a similar way with other spirits — was not an option , since importers were banned by law from doing so . |
| 5 | The orthographic information stored in the lexical look-up tree could be used in a similar way to n-gram look-up discussed earlier , whereby non-occurring letter sequences are ruled out , and alternative character candidates are tried instead . |
| 6 | It is calculated in a similar way to ordinary pinch pleats in that the total measurement of unpleated fabric , i.e. , scallops and spaces , must equal the pole length . |
| 7 | Secondly , although larger specimens of O. rosea examined often have many smaller thinner supernumerary papillae such papillae are not distributed in a similar way to other species of Ophioprium . |
| 8 | Turnaround of print requests ( both interactive and batch ) will be monitored in a similar way to terminal response times . |
| 9 | For a longer break for carers such as holidays , a new idea growing in popularity is a family placement scheme for elderly people which works in a similar way to short-term fostering for children and teenagers . |
| 10 | Changes to expert systems would have to be done centrally and issued as amendments in a similar way to existing software or technical manual amendments . |
| 11 | The alternative is to use a litigation support bureau which operates in a similar way to external photocopying bureaux . |
| 12 | It should be emphasised that if the reputation of the developer for fair dealing is to be maintained , offers made for land found in this manner should be fair and reasonable , as from time to time speculators have acquired sites at far below their true value , in a similar way to door-to-door antique pedlars . |
| 13 | The findings can not be neatly tied up and one or two loose threads are left , but the likelihood is that general processing of signed sequences proceeds through left hemispheric involvement in a similar way to spoken language . |
| 14 | Once in the bloodstream , the aromatic molecules affect the body in a similar way to herbal medicine . |
| 15 | The suggestion is that computers can be programmed to process discourse in a similar way to human beings , though the complexity of human language competence and human knowledge are far greater than those of any existing computer . |
| 16 | In a similar way in suprasegmental phonology it is claimed that utterances may be divided up into tone-units , and that one can identify on phonetic or phonological grounds the places where one tone-unit ends and another tone-unit begins . |
| 17 | The above results illustrate that the segments with and without A-tracts behave essentially in a similar way in hydroxy radical and DNase I digestion experiments , suggesting that a similar , groove-directed curvature may be present in both types of curved DNA . |
| 18 | The concentrations of vitamin D chosen were in a similar range to previous studies , and the lowest dose of 1,25 ( OH ) 2 D 3 is probably within the human physiological range . |
| 19 | Also , in one of its corner squares , mosaic C shows the remains of a floral device which is not , stylistically , comparable with those placed in a similar position in mosaic B. The differences between the motifs in the central squares of both these mosaics has been covered above ( section 2.2. pp.30-31 ) and , clearly , is not unimportant . |
| 20 | He was also presenting ballets in a similar format to Rustic Revelry . |
| 21 | This treatment is worth considering for other patients in a similar situation with life-threatening neutropenia or thrombocytopenia in whom conventional treatment has failed . |
| 22 | It is necessary to organise the compounds in such a way that they are treated in a similar manner to individual words . |
| 23 | Under this option the expatriate is treated in a similar manner to local employees — his basic salary is the same as theirs . |
| 24 | Hierarchical relationships may also take the form of coordinate relationships , in which case they may be represented by ‘ RT ’ or related term in a similar manner to affinitive relationships below . |
| 25 | The char , which operates in a similar manner to activated carbon , but at a much lower cost per tonne , is an efficient treatment for liquid effluents . |