Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] resemblance to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singly and in groups , in a variety of motorised transport , ranging from thirty-ton sixteen wheelers to private cars , they were converging on their Operations HQ — which just happened to bear a remarkable resemblance to the County Sheriff 's office in Rockford ! |
| 2 | In all three areas the mammals that happened to be around at the start fanned out in evolution , and produced a specialist for each trade which , in many cases , came to bear a remarkable resemblance to the corresponding specialist in the other two areas . |
| 3 | Jane Russell bore a striking resemblance to Sweetheart . |
| 4 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
| 5 | If he had had any doubts about paternity , they were dispelled ; for , even though he kept his distance , he did once get near enough to the pair to become acutely aware that the child bore a striking resemblance to him : dark hair , dark brown eyes beneath the same unusual winged eyebrows . |
| 6 | ‘ She bore a striking resemblance to the notorious James Bond character Rosa Klebb , ’ Anne wrote . |
| 7 | Contemporary miniatures show that Dara bore a striking resemblance to his father ; he had the same deep-set almond eyes , the same straight , narrow nose and long , full beard , although in some pictures he appears to have been slightly darker and more petite than Shah Jehan . |
| 8 | It bore a hideous resemblance to the blighting , punishing sorts of work which are common in the world at large . |
| 9 | This jealousy between a corps d'elite and those who are not able or willing to come under its patronage is understandable , and became more understandable to me when I reached Hyderabad and found that the Institute was a self-contained and sequestered community , and that its comparatively luxurious campus bore a faint resemblance to a military camp , with living quarters graded according to the status of their occupants . |
| 10 | schoolgirlish look , and bore a close resemblance to an officeful of typists at a hen party . |
| 11 | ‘ It bore a fair resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition . |
| 12 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 13 | The woman bore a disconcerting resemblance to Mrs Pascoe . |
| 14 | It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before . |
| 15 | We shall discuss the attitudes of the arts students towards science later ; however , it is worth noting that Colin 's attitude to science bore a marked resemblance to some of the English students ' attitudes towards their subject . |
| 16 | Language is not an iconic sign system , in which the signifier has a visual resemblance to the signified ( as in the traffic signs for ‘ falling rocks ’ or ‘ humped-backed bridge ’ ) , but a symbolic one in which the connection between signified and signifier is arbitrary . |
| 17 | In these ways this design process has a close resemblance to the traditional design activity . |
| 18 | Delight enough to be sure , but the pleasure was greatly amplified when it was recognized , almost immediately , that the harpsichord bore an uncommon resemblance to the instrument shown in the famous Mercier portrait of Handel ( see cover ) . |
| 19 | I am sure I spotted Nico Ladenis preparing some divine demi-glace and Bohringer , the head chef , bore an uncanny resemblance to Michel Guerard , one of France 's three-star Michelin men . |
| 20 | One of the inn 's habitués , a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer , bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson . |
| 21 | He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy . |
| 22 | The spectre carried a great staff and , with his high forehead and blond hair , bore an uncanny resemblance to a painting of St John . |
| 23 | And she becomes rather alarmed to discover the previous occupant of her room bore an uncanny resemblance to her and had a penchant for bungee jumping without a rope . |
| 24 | To some — notably the three Oz editors — it bore an irresistible resemblance to a urinal . |
| 25 | The Marxist critic reading a text for the ideological traces that it attempts to conceal — ‘ Hegelian grammar ’ is inescapable in such contexts — by its evasive gaps and silences , has an obvious resemblance to the Freudian analyst examining the manifest content of a patient 's dream for the repressed realities that are concealed within it . |
| 26 | Probably the largest on the earth 's surface , to me it bears a passing resemblance to a somewhat distorted version of a face that was popular in Eighties amusement arcades — that belonging to a creature called Pac-Man . |
| 27 | ‘ Boggers ’ ( no , I do n't know why , though I suspect it may have something to do with a haircut that bears a passing resemblance to a bogbrush ) may have a couple of incisive seasons left in him at best , but opponents will rarely get a moment 's peace when he combines with Bicknell and Waqar Younis next year . |
| 28 | In many ways the Crown Prince 's relationship to his stern father bears a passing resemblance to that of the Prince of Wales and King George V. Like his cousin , he was intensely bored by pomp and ceremony ; after an official visit to Konigsberg , he dispatched a typical wire to the Kaiser , reporting ‘ seventy-five speeches , four and a half hours ’ duration and the usual horrible banquet ’ On another occasion , he was actually placed under house arrest by the Kaiser for skipping a state function . |
| 29 | It is a late-maturing breed and bears a superficial resemblance to the Limousin , whose region is fairly close to that of the Parthenais , but it is larger , bulls standing at about 138cm and weighing on average 1,050kg , and cows 135cm and 775kg . |
| 30 | The argument of this chapter bears a superficial resemblance to familiar attempts to base morality on the claim that human beings are naturally unselfish and behave egotistically only out of ignorance . |