Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] that of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 2 | This latter type of work , it is claimed here , is not logically as different from the work of sociologists and anthropologists as it is from that of scientists working with animals , plants or inanimate objects . |
| 3 | It is unlike that of any politician , environmentalist or businessman , however committed and well intentioned they may be . |
| 4 | Yes , the laughing kookaburra does have a distinctive voice , described as ‘ a boisterous laugh , a rising staccato shouted ‘ kook-kook-kook-ka-ka-ka ’ which then fades ’ : it is unlike that of any other bird in the world . |
| 5 | The loss of my sister was not entirely beyond my comprehension as it was beyond that of my other sisters . |
| 6 | Yet the invisible balance may well be a measure of weakness rather than of strength , particularly since financial services have not shown outstanding growth in productivity : as has been noted it was below that of domestic manufacturing and far below that for manufacturing among Britain 's major competitors . |