Example sentences of "bears a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba , too . |
| 7 | Drummer Mark bears a spooky resemblance to the dodgy motor dealing brothers in Eastenders but do n't be put off . |
| 8 | Drummer Mark bears a spooky resemblance to the dodgy motor dealing brothers in Eastenders but do n't be put off . |
| 9 | In fact he bears a vague resemblance to Crocodile Dundee , although his strong upper class English accent , roughened by a liking for Rothman cigarettes , quickly dispelled that image . |
| 10 | Initially , there was a close range try from Tony Keegan and then a superb handling move involving sleight of hand from Martin Smith — an Old Edwardian who bears a striking resemblance to the Leicester maestro , Les Cusworth - resulted in Rupert Moon plunging over . |
| 11 | Indeed the distribution of votes across the three parties in 1983 bears a striking resemblance to the elections of 1923 and of 1929 ( Table 10.4 ) . |
| 12 | Several wild song thrushes in different parts of Britain — and some blackbirds too — have been heard singing a new song that bears a striking resemblance to the distinctive electronic warble of British Telecom 's ‘ trimphones ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ My safety was my priority , ’ said Lizzie , who bears a striking resemblance to her sister . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought ‘ You must be very calm , you must not antagonise your aggressor , just try to be calm and keep sensible , and always think what you are saying before you say it ’ , ’ said Lizzie , of Oxford , who bears a striking resemblance to her sister . |
| 15 | ERIC CANTONA bears a striking resemblance to the baubles on your Christmas tree — glossy , fragile and in need of careful handling . |
| 16 | The European cuckoo , with its grey plumage and barred underside , bears a striking resemblance to the predatory sparrowhawk , pictured below . |
| 17 | Although in profile and painted , rather than in relief , it bears a striking resemblance to the Alletio sherd from Corbridge . |
| 18 | And yet this type of ambiguity bears a striking resemblance to the scope ambiguities described above . |
| 19 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 20 | Chester 's Gateway Theatre is looking for a mild-mannered all round good-egg who bears a striking resemblance to the former Everton striker . |
| 21 | Liz Robertson ( Maria ) , a veteran musical performer , bears a striking resemblance to Julie Andrews . |
| 22 | The Amstrad NC100 notepad — pictured below with Christopher Biggins , do n't ask us why — bears a distinct resemblance to the first item on your list . |
| 23 | This slender , feathery herb bears a strong resemblance to fennel . |
| 24 | Having worked his way up via his own live spoof chat show Vic 's Big Night Out , he has latterly been guesting on television 's One Hour With Jonathan Ross , a show whose format bears a strong resemblance to Reeves 's own showcase . |
| 25 | It bears a close affinity to the work of W. G. Perry , whose detailed analysis of student development is based on considerable empirical work in the USA . |
| 26 | Notice that such a skip instruction bears a close resemblance to a jump instruction using relative addressing ( see 4.3 ) . |
| 27 | He proposed an approach to the principled description of such contexts which bears a close resemblance to more recent descriptions which we shall go on to examine : |
| 28 | O. metallacta bears a close resemblance to O. notata but differs in the shape of the oral and adoral shield ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 29 | Ophiotoma coriacea bears a close resemblance to the ophiomyxid Ophioscolex purpureus . |
| 30 | ‘ … who bears a close resemblance to our school janitor , Aziz — although , as far as I know , Aziz does not wander around with a tea towel on his head organizing terrorist attacks — Yasser Arafat — ’ |