Example sentences of "[adj] in appearance to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very similar in appearance to Parma ham . |
| 2 | They are very similar in appearance to our American specimen , although the colouring is usually less intense . |
| 3 | A dun-grey monster , very similar in appearance to the fabled LOCH NESS MONSTER , believed to live at the bottom of the thousand-foot deep Loch Morar . |
| 4 | Although of very traditional design and similar in appearance to Nos. 1–35 , they were of rather more robust construction . |
| 5 | Very similar in appearance to the Giraffe , there are three members to this species , all of which remain a much more manageable size , reaching only about 8in ( 20cm ) . |
| 6 | Periclimenes shrimps are superficially similar in appearance to Harlequin Shrimp species but do not harm their host anemone or sea cucumber . |
| 7 | In 1953 Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman reported rapid , saccadic ( tracking ) eye movements , similar in appearance to waking eye movements , associated with reports of dreaming . |
| 8 | Dot-density diagrams are therefore similar in appearance to ordinary plans and so are easier to understand . |
| 9 | In summer they lived in conical tents or huts roofed with birch-bark , and sometimes on houseboats similar in appearance to the Chinese sampan . |
| 10 | When Ps. lanisticola was first described by Dr Warren Burgess in 1976 , the hobby was in general not impressed , as the new species was said to be similar in appearance to livingstonii with the main difference being in the dentition . |
| 11 | For example , in a sample of 725 copulating pairs of two species of cicada , which are distinguishable but similar in appearance to the human eye , only seven contained members of two species ; the other 718 were matings of the same species . |
| 12 | Similar in appearance to completion items , cloze tests should not be confused with simple blank-filling tests . |
| 13 | Ophiopristis does seem to be similar in appearance to Ophiologimus H. L. Clark , 1911 but differs mainly in the form of the tentacle pore which is slightly smaller with larger tentacle scales than Ophiologimus . |
| 14 | Similar in appearance to the MM 300 but larger and ideal for feeder fishing . |
| 15 | The pores consist entirely of intercrystalline voids that are identical in appearance to those described from the Z1 Carbonate and likewise probably resulted also from late leaching ( Fig. 10d ) . |
| 16 | To add to the confusion there is another species from the western Pacific which is almost identical in appearance to P. pulcherimus , but is , in fact , P. randalli . |
| 17 | The Brecknell-Munro ‘ B/1 ’ trolley mast was slightly offset towards one side and one end , although identical in appearance to those on Corporation cars , these could only be turned to one side and small arrows had to be painted on the bulkheads ( later inside the headlamp . ) |
| 18 | This fish is virtually identical in appearance to the Ornate Congo catfish mentioned above but is more readily-available and therefore more affordable . |