Example sentences of "[det] [be] similar [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A few were similar to small stations in southern France , reflecting the control of North African railways by French companies like the Paris-Lyon-Marseille .
2 This is similar to that of the mother cat giving her kittens a mouse , but it goes a step further , because Ricci usually abandons her own hammer to Nina .
3 This is similar to that described for T. canis in dogs .
4 This is similar to European languages like the Latin ( also dead ) and Russian .
5 This is similar to optical character recognition ( OCR ) which has concentrated mostly on machine-printed characters , although there has been some effort on handwriting as well .
6 This is similar with most manufacturers ; 11 degrees for the driver , 16 for the 3-wood , 19 for the 4-wood and 22 for the 5-wood .
7 This is similar in some respects to the leap-frogging approach .
8 It attracts many migrant families from the surrounding rural areas and as such is similar to many of the cities in Bangladesh .
9 These are similar to ceramic tiles , but are unglazed and come only in a range of earth/terracotta/red colours as they are made from unrefined clay .
10 In fact , relatively little is known about the various influences on teachers ' classroom practice and the extent to which these are similar in different countries .
11 These were similar to those signed with Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland in June 1990 [ see p. 37535 ] , which were expected to result in the signature of free trade agreements with EFTA in the first half of 1992 .
12 These were similar to miniature flywheels and added extra momentum while spinning the thread .
13 Many are similar to large vertically integrated corporations in the West including such giants as Ford , General Electric , Daimler-Benz , Siemens or Philips .
14 Not only are lower paid workers likely to occupy housing that is different in tenure from that of skilled workers but a certain proportion of the latter may occupy housing that is similar to that of the non-manual group adjacent to them .
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