Example sentences of "[adj] to [adj] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysis of this is mathematically similar to that of patterns of overflow record occurrences , and the following cases will be considered : |
| 2 | Economic factors influenced the formation of these groups — for example the ‘ roughs ’ were often in the lowest income bracket — but they did not determine status since the income of many ‘ roughs ’ was similar to that of members of other status groups . |
| 3 | Primitives , in their use of magic , overestimate the power of wishes and thought processes generally , in a way similar to that of neurotics in modern society . |
| 4 | The arrangment was probably similar to that of mosaics from Pitney , Som. , ( V.C.H. Som . |
| 5 | The Table shows that patients on NSAIDs hadsignificantly less inflammation than patients with inflammatory bowel disease but the blood loss was similar to that of patients with Crohn 's disease . |
| 6 | The evidence suggests that lone fathers are more likely to work than lone mothers ; indeed their working hours are similar to those of fathers in two parent families . |
| 7 | Many district councils also offer welfare advice and fund community development programmes , and some voluntary agencies , including the Citizen 's Advice Bureau and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , are involved in activities and may even have statutory powers which are similar to those of councils in this area . |
| 8 | Thus the Hire Purchase Acts 1938 – 1965 have been almost entirely repealed by the CCA 1974 , and the rights and duties of the parties involved in a hire purchase contract are similar to those of parties to a sale of goods , in which the consumer has obtained credit , whether from the seller or a third party . |
| 9 | The status of labouring poets , despite the success of Stephen Duck , was never equal to that of writers from polite society . |
| 10 | The students and others were highly critical of the Dip.AD for a number of reasons , not all of them compatible : that it did not impart a sound technical training and failed to produce good design practitioners ; that it was becoming so academic in content that it was losing touch with the market-place ; that its status was popularly regarded as inferior to that of courses in other subjects which led to the award of degrees ; and that instead of a network of inter-related courses imparting a wide range of studies , it offered only a small number of ladder-like disciplines . |
| 11 | And today his former tenant Danny Brady followed up that case with a civil action at Oxford County Court , claiming he 's entitled to thousands of pounds in damages . |
| 12 | For instance , restriction of the opportunity for reproduction in Drosophila to 3–6-day-old flies for 120 generations resulted in a fall in the late but not the early-life fecundity of females in these ’ r' lines relative to that of females of ’ K' lines where adults of any age could breed . |