Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] a similar [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to provide a similar scheme related to earnings , but as part of state provision , resulted in the 1975 Social Security Pension Act 1975 , which came into operation in 1978 . |
| 2 | It 's the legacy of the Irish Football Association 's promotion , whereby fans buying tickets for last night 's Latvia game were given the opportunity to purchase a similar amount for the Republic of Ireland 's visit in November . |
| 3 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 4 | The Council also urged the New England Fishery Management Council to introduce a similar ban , and called on the US delegation to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas ( ICCAT ) to support a resolution to prohibit the use of drift-nets for all tuna and other species under the jurisdiction of ICCAT . |
| 5 | A proposal to construct a similar facility in the UK , using the 10 MeV tandem accelerator at Oxford University , was submitted to the SERC in September 1989 but failed to gain support . |
| 6 | Roh called on North Korea to follow a similar course . |
| 7 | Calling on North Korea to make a similar pledge , Roh said that nuclear energy would only be used for peaceful purposes . |
| 8 | General Motors , it seems , has not yet applied for the necessary US permision to conduct a similar exercise . |
| 9 | Has the time not come to investigate the factors which led to the move west from the 13 colonies in North America , to consider how these might be created to apply to a move east from the Urals to provide a similar development in potentially the greatest storehouse of raw materials and energy ? |
| 10 | Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head . |
| 11 | If you are inspired by John and Veronica Saunders ' style on the previous pages , here are some appealing alternatives and ideas to create a similar look |
| 12 | Another attempt by a Gehlen agent called Christopher Komarek to lay a similar cable across the Jungfern Lake also ended in failure . |
| 13 | When the King received it he asked the Ferrars to make a similar Concordance for him of the Books of Chronicles and Kings , so as to present them as a single narrative . |
| 14 | He would need all his diplomatic skills to do a similar job in South Africa . |
| 15 | Mr Bébéar would like the chance to engineer a similar turnaround at UNI . |
| 16 | Unfortunately a request to send a similar questionnaire to local authority social services departments was declined by the service evaluation , research , and information committee of the Association of Directors of Social Services . |
| 17 | At a period when I kept house in France and could lay hands on the Gruyère of the Comté I used on occasion to cook a similar version . |
| 18 | An 18-year-old and a 16-year-old are due to appear in the same court to face a similar charge . |
| 19 | Although there is little criticism of the foundation 's decision to support such research , other medical charities argue that its explicit exclusion of research on animals may encourage other smaller research-funding bodies to take a similar stand , a move that could make life increasingly difficult for medical researchers . |
| 20 | We can approach this question by writing computer programs to do a similar job , or by finding out what is the minimum information we need in order to perceive something . |
| 21 | Now her mother says all houses should have locks fitted to upstairs windows to prevent a similar accident . |
| 22 | Will my hon. Friend call on the hon. Member for Livingston to make a similar admission of the error of his ways ? |
| 23 | DEC says it has no plans to offer a similar personality for its OpenVMS operating system , but officials at the company 's ‘ Unified Unix ’ briefing a couple of weeks ago admitted it would be ‘ good marketing hype . ’ |
| 24 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 25 | How long should it take 18 men to build a similar wall ? |
| 26 | Now police and local Councils plan stern measures to stop a similar event happening this May . |
| 27 | After failing to persuade his employer to produce a similar program , Ward developed one of his own , in partnership with an American programmer called Rusty Luring . |
| 28 | All sorts of small items of royal expenditure were charged to the Barbados and Leeward revenues but no other colony saw any reason to make a similar grant . |
| 29 | Pininfarina , just across the aisle from Italdesign , is crying out for Vauxhall to take a similar level of interest in its Lotus Carlton-powered Chronos , making a second show appearance but this time as a fully engineered runner . |
| 30 | The labour constant should also give the operatives of different gangs or trades equal opportunity to earn a similar percentage bonus . |