Example sentences of "[adv prt] a similar [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime . |
| 2 | There are plans to bring in a similar scheme in Oxford — it 's going to cost eighteen million pounds and take five years . |
| 3 | As you play fig 8 try to improvise your own fills in a similar style . |
| 4 | They bring in a similar amount of cash as small , or public , lotteries . |
| 5 | Auguste Comte ( 1798–1857 ) , for example , compared different societies with the intention of showing that all were evolving along a similar path . |
| 6 | The pros and cons of mink keeping on island groups such as Orkney and Shetland were fully presented at a public enquiry held over a similar case on Westray in Orkney in 1978 . |
| 7 | During our discussion , you told me that you were about to leave the manager 's job at Athletico and take up a similar position with Ipswich Town . |
| 8 | They remained there for thirteen years before taking up a similar position in Liverpool . |
| 9 | NORMAN Riddell , the chief executive of Capital House , the fund management arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland , has resigned to take up a similar position at Invesco-MIM . |
| 10 | They are also due to take up a similar request by Macedonia and discuss whether Serbia and Montenegro alone can inherit Yugoslavia 's international status . |
| 11 | Though they failed to make up a similar deficit against Essex on day two , losing 5–4 , their two doubles victories kept up their tally of rubbers going into the final day . |
| 12 | Undeterred , supporters of civil rights legislation drew up a similar bill for consideration in 1991 . |
| 13 | The BBC has picked up a similar trend . |
| 14 | We hear that Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on Digital Equipment Corp 's rival Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 15 | We hear Intel Corp has written up a bunch of Q&As for its people to use answering questions that touch on DEC 's competitive Alpha chip , while Microsoft Corp has written up a similar document on Unix compared with NT . |
| 16 | The Canadian team developed this into a practical investigation aid and willingly helped Ray Davis , the AIB flight recorder specialist , to set up a similar system in the UK . |
| 17 | After his return in August 1908 from a packed five-day trip he set his civil servants at the Treasury to explore means of setting up a similar scheme for Britain . |
| 18 | Now there is a waiting list of would-be residents for vacancies in existing houses or in new ones , and parents in Providence , Rhode Island , have asked the Wizanskys to help them set up a similar scheme . |
| 19 | In Robb v Green [ 1895 ] 2 QB 315 the defendant , employed by the plaintiff as the manager of his business , surreptitiously copied from the plaintiff 's order book a list of names and addresses of customers with the intention of soliciting them after he had left employment and had set up a similar business on his own . |
| 20 | He said the Law Society already had a working party reviewing the criminal justice system and he was now setting up a similar group to identify areas which needed radical change in the civil field . |
| 21 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 22 | He returned to the Tyne in 1853 to manage a shipyard , leaving the following year to take up a similar post at Robert Hickson 's shipyard in Belfast . |
| 23 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |
| 24 | Nick Bollettieri , whose Bradenton , Florida Coaching Academy continues to be the base for a whole host of tennis champions , including currently , Andre Agassi , and who is committed to helping the Lawn Tennis Association to set up a similar training base her in the UK , has , in conjunction with adidas , launched a fast and functional range of tennis apparel for this country . |
| 25 | The Japanese government , which also strongly supported a return to commercial whaling , announced that it was holding talks with Russia and South Korea with a view to setting up a similar organization for " rational exploitation " of marine mammals in the north Pacific . |
| 26 | It would not be difficult to draw up a similar set of misunderstandings from a survey of pupils in the classroom . |
| 27 | Grant Allen , writer and biologist , who also stressed the importance of women 's sexual emancipation in a novel , The Woman Who Did ( 1895 ) , took up a similar cry : ‘ A woman ought to be ashamed to say she has no desire to become a wife and mother ’ . |
| 28 | In 1873 he took up a similar appointment with the Great Eastern Railway . |
| 29 | After he was pulled out of the tour following a four-match ban and then seeing Wakefield 's Michael Jackson make the trip after picking up a similar suspension , Goulding probably feels there 's a vendetta against him . |
| 30 | Gary Peters , assistant to Beck at Cambridge , takes up a similar role . |