Example sentences of "[vb past] a similar [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kintsch and Bates used a similar procedure to Sachs ( 1967 ) ( see section 7.2.3 ) , asking the students to distinguish between original sentences and paraphrases . |
| 2 | Chapman et al used a similar technique to the one described here , and found significantly lower rates of butyrate metabolism , and non-significant reductions in glutamine and glucose metabolism in UC . |
| 3 | He subsequently pursued a similar career to his father 's , but in the service of the Cavendish rather than the Willoughby family . |
| 4 | In that case , which involved the transfer of patients and the lease of a building from one drug dependency foundation to another as a result of the local authority 's decision to transfer its subsidy , the Court took the same view that the decisive criterion was whether the business in question retained its identity and adopted a similar approach to the range of factors to be taken into account by the national court in deciding this matter . |
| 5 | Imports of wine suffered a similar drop to those at Bristol ; indeed the average annual import fell even more drastically , by over 45 per cent , but the decline in cloth exports , by only a little over 15 per cent , was much less . |
| 6 | The 30-year-old goalkeeper recalled a similar operation to former teammate Peter Davenport . |
| 7 | Thus the authorities faced a similar problem to the wife whose husband was unwilling or unable to provide : whether to treat the woman as a mother or worker . |
| 8 | Binding of the antibody SM3 showed a similar pattern to that with NCRC-11 . |
| 9 | In 1256 Henry III granted by charter to the burgesses of Scarborough that ‘ no forester may enter the borough to make attachment for trespasses within the Forest [ of Scalby ] ’ and in 1348 Edward III made a similar concession to the burgesses of Penrith for Inglewood Forest . |
| 10 | The following month they made a similar objection to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers beating the retreat in Shipquay Street . |
| 11 | He made a similar reply to another member who insisted that radio should give better publicity to what MPs said in the House : it was not , he said , the job of his Ministry to build up the reputation of individual MPs . |
| 12 | He said the questioning followed a similar pattern to the others . |
| 13 | The second set followed a similar pattern to the first , with Cross making the most of the chances offered and edging past the Essex girl in just under two hours . |
| 14 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 15 | Work-wise it followed a similar pattern to the previous day . |
| 16 | While the attitude of British fascists and anti-semites to the nazis must be left to a separate chapter , the logic of ‘ Jew wise ’ anti-semitism implied a similar outcome to Hitler 's genocidal programme . |
| 17 | What he did not explain was the logical conclusion that before Whinfield and Denmark Street controlled their budgets they offered a similar service to other surgeries . |
| 18 | The three years I spent studying took a similar shape to my school years ; on the surface I did well , passing my exams with seemingly not too much trouble . |
| 19 | Deutsche Bundespost Telekom board member Dieter Gallist took a similar line to both Roulet and Silvestri , but was pessimistic about competition in Germany because of the constitution , which says that the government must own the postal and telecommunications services , and a change in the constitution requires a two thirds majority in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat . |
| 20 | The all-party House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities issued a similar report to Rossi 's . |
| 21 | These would have been largely overcome had a similar approach to that used in setting up the " persons " system been adopted . |
| 22 | The notion of asking ‘ circular questions ’ is a helpful way of developing these interactions , i.e. ‘ Mrs Smith , you had a similar experience to Mr White , how did you cope ? ’ , or ‘ You 've taken tranquillizers in the past and gave them up , what would you say to somebody like Mrs Jones ? ’ |
| 23 | The voice stopped and I had a similar feeling to the one I had just before I found Toby trussed up in his cupboard . |
| 24 | That is , it had a similar status to the Banbury lane in medieval times but it is one which it has kept and developed in response to changing circumstances , whereas the Banbury Lane has failed . |
| 25 | ‘ And you said your sister had a similar job to yourself . |
| 26 | General Order No.168 , AGO , 14 September 1899 extended a similar concession to NCOs , henceforward authorized to sew their chevrons to their shirtsleeves . |