Example sentences of "similar to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He judged that it would be difficult to persuade readers of the artistry of Klee 's art , which appeared similar to children 's drawings , so he stressed the work 's imaginative content . |
| 2 | The church obtained a separate school system , funded mainly by the Northern Ireland government , similar to the system of catholic schools in Britain . |
| 3 | These were to be intermediary between capital and labour and based precisely upon types of vocational expertise in a way similar to medieval guilds ( Leo XIII 1903 : 240–7 ; Pius XI 1931 : 32–4 ) . |
| 4 | It is almost as if the catholic Irish people become a people of God in Old Testament terms , in a way similar to the Northern Calvinists , a people which have overriding power to set up their domain . |
| 5 | The use of the term shilling derives from an 19th century system of invoicing beer according to its gravity — a 60 shilling ale is a low gravity beer , an 80 shilling one is considerably stronger , similar to an English special bitter . |
| 6 | Both these establishments seem to have had an architectural form very similar to the ordinary domestic buildings of their area , and the hall provided the communal eating and drinking space . |
| 7 | This is a device similar to a normal cassette recorder but which takes bigger tape cassettes , each of which can hold all the data and programs on your computer . |
| 8 | Fettuccine — similar to tagliatelle . |
| 9 | Harvey 's sauce tastes similar to Worcester sauce and comes in 170ml bottles . |
| 10 | Her view reflected a time when mustard was enjoying a vogue similar to that enjoyed by flavoured vinegars a few years ago . |
| 11 | M26 is quite similar to M9 , but a little more vigorous . |
| 12 | The effect is similar to dressing a tall man in a pinstripe suit — it simply accentuates the length ! |
| 13 | With these , any jerk or sudden gust tends to result in a nose-up pitching movement , similar to the start of a winch launch . |
| 14 | Once clear of the ground , most gliders are very similar to each other and you should have no problems . |
| 15 | In a game similar to that devised for the radio show Desert Island Discs , we listed those who would get one bullet from a six-gun , and placed them in order of preference , much in the way the FBI listed the top wanted men in the USA . |
| 16 | Mickey Rourke was a possibility because his eyes were similar to Alan 's . |
| 17 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 18 | This suggests the hypothesis that one of the features of autism is a lack of central control of thinking similar to that found in very young normal children . |
| 19 | Unfortunately this evolutionary attraction of the causal theory is also illusory , for reasons that similar to those that established the circular nature of the Weber-Fechner and other psychophysical laws . |
| 20 | However , most two pack systems , similar to our own Wood Bleach , do not contain any acid and as Mr Leach himself points out the ‘ A ’ solution is usually a strong alkaline . |
| 21 | A common modern technique is similar to guitar finger style using a CC-G-C or a similar fifth and octave tuning which gives greater versatility without re-tuning and can be further extended by the introduction of an extra fret between the 6th and 7th . |
| 22 | Accordingly it was agreed that the free-standing clock should be built very similar to the one John Ellicott made in 1740 , and featured on p. 288 in the standard reference work by Cescinsky & Webster , English Domestic Clocks . |
| 23 | The cherub spandrels are similar to the Cescinsky & Webster classification No.4 and are hand cast by the lost wax process , fettled and polished . |
| 24 | Carving chisels are similar to ordinary carpentry chisels , in that the edge of the blade is flat and square across the shank . |
| 25 | It will be in A4 format but similar to the banner for News for Local Groups . |
| 26 | Massive structures remained , many attitudes and management at the beginning of the decade were very similar to those of long ago . |
| 27 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 28 | First came the Class 56 , superficially similar to the Class 47 but with a maximum speed of 80mph and no facility for train heating . |
| 29 | Next came the Class 58 , functionally similar to the Class 56 but with a number of radical design features such as external walkways along the sides of each locomotive ; a fleet of fifty entered service between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 30 | The internal layout is similar to the Mk1 with two lavatories at the same end of the vehicle . |