Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] like the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is theoretically possible for a cow to jump over the moon with something like the same improbability . |
| 2 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 3 | E.D. Simon , Chairman of Manchester Housing Committee ( 1919–23 ) and Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health ( 1931 ) was confident of being able to rebuild Britain within 20 years : ‘ If we can tackle the problems of peace with anything like the same sense of purpose , the same devotion , and the same efficiency as we have shown during the war , the Rebuilding of Britain will be child 's play ’ ( Simon , 1945 , p. 228 ) . |
| 4 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 5 | But the term could be extended , so that kangaroos might be said to represent deer in Australia because they live in something like the same way . |
| 6 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 7 | Pregnancy , however , is a relatively brief and dramatic bodily change , succeeded by reversion to something like the former state . |
| 8 | Pennies and Singing Detective raised interest and expectation , but not on anything like the same scale . |
| 9 | His competitor , Barry O'Donovan of Carbrook Chemicals , does not export on anything like the same scale as himself , he says . |
| 10 | Women rowers ca n't take part on anything like the same scale as the men yet , but the feeling was they 're here to stay : |
| 11 | George V had found Lloyd George 's scattering of honours ‘ disagreeable and distasteful ’ , according to his private secretary , Lord Stamfordham , and while no subsequent prime minister has abused the system to anything like the same degree , they can not kick the habit . |
| 12 | Radio and television programmes of the high inquiring calibre of ‘ Today ’ , ‘ The World at One ’ or ‘ Newsnight ’ do not exist in France to anything like the same degree . |
| 13 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 14 | In other words , the potentialities of the medium were not explored to anything like the same extent' ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 15 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 16 | Quality control is not ‘ externalized ’ , nor is maintenance , to anything like the same degree as in more traditional modernist organizations . |
| 17 | Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties . |
| 18 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |
| 19 | These facts are indeed significant , but they are susceptible of a rather different Interpretation when it is accepted that importance and success amongst the ulema in the earlier period did not depend upon one 's position in the hierarchy or concomitant matters like salary or membership of the divan — to anything like the same degree that they did in later times . |
| 20 | Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 21 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |