Example sentences of "with a similar " in BNC.
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| 1 | A central part of the claim was a reduction in the working week from 39 hours to 35 , to coincide with a similar demand by the leaders of two million engineering workers who are conducting strike ballots at key sites . |
| 2 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 3 | Mr Saunders ' fund has a 40 per cent exposure to the mark , with a similar commitment to the dollar . |
| 4 | But such a situation is also presented as a thing pre-done , interpreted by being seen in terms of Antony 's meeting with Cleopatra as portrayed by Shakespeare , and as a thing re-done , since the third meeting , that of Princess Volupine with Sir Ferdinand Klein presents us again with a similar situation . |
| 5 | As in The German Ideology , we seem to start with a similar early evolutionary stage which is roughly described as ‘ tribal ’ and which in itself divided into three . |
| 6 | The policy , under the banner ‘ Taking care of the world we share ’ , commits the company to carrying out regular environmental audits , training employees to improve environmental performance and using suppliers with a similar attitude towards the environment . |
| 7 | Whereas Hitchcock 's last British film , the pre-war Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ) , could be said to be dealing with a similar area of subject matter to , say , Hatter 's Castle ( 1941 ) , the emotional level struck by the latter is a world away from the former . |
| 8 | Ownership Tough restrictions on cross-media ownership will prevent national newspaper owners holding more than a 20 per cent stake in television companies , with a similar limitation on cross interests between commercial televison , satellite television and national radio channels . |
| 9 | The highly acclaimed Herringcote development at Dorchester-on-Thames by Beechcroft , together with a similar select retirement scheme which is now under construction at Woodstock by the same company . |
| 10 | I was conscious , too , of his fine , tanned hand holding the pencil , and of the occasional play of warm breath from his mouth , wholesome as home-baked bread , though he was a heavy smoker — much heavier than I. ft was I who introduced him to the Bisontes brand , a Spanish version of Lucky Strike , with a similar ‘ toasted ’ flavour . |
| 11 | There is a defence for a young man under 24 who has not previously been charged with a similar offence and who believes that the girl is 16 years old . |
| 12 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 13 | special coping slabs are also available with a similar texture effect to the wall to finish the job off . |
| 14 | His feet continued to pattern Ab-u-dah Ab-u-dah on the pavement as it slowly curved towards a junction with a similar , possibly even shabbier street , a terrace without any trees . |
| 15 | Everyone likes to hang around with people with a similar image , it gives you more confidence to experiment . |
| 16 | Holders of £435m of bonds will be offered A and B bonds with a similar repayment schedule . |
| 17 | Southampton , who sent West Ham to the bottom of the division six weeks ago with a similar scoreline at The Dell , have hauled themselves close to safety with a run of one defeat in 13 matches . |
| 18 | John Dunlop has worked quite comfortably under those circumstances and we are quite content with a similar situation for our good horses . ’ |
| 19 | Compare this with a ‘ puzzle ’ structure used by the same authors with a similar age group of children who had asked for a ‘ horror mystery ’ drama . |
| 20 | Mammalian faunas on isolated continental fragments could evolve , at least for a time , separately from faunas in other parts of the world , producing a whole series of peculiar animals that have no direct relationships to animals with a similar mode of life elsewhere . |
| 21 | Another writer with a similar argument is the eighteenth-century cleric Bishop Butler . |
| 22 | Don Roberto had been killed with a similar knife to the one Trent carried . |
| 23 | It is interesting to compare these lines with a similar passage in Philips 's poem : |
| 24 | Thus it seems that the only understanding that the persons in the original position can reach is that everyone should have the greatest equal liberty consistent with a similar liberty for others . |
| 25 | Mindful of the quarrels over precedence among the Bonaparte family which had marred his uncle 's coronation , Napoleon III may have felt it unwise to provide them with a similar occasion for bad manners . |
| 26 | For most of the black and white pictures , I used a Leica M6 and shot it with a similar approach to The Family . |
| 27 | ( In Italy the foliot was sometimes replaced by a balance wheel with a similar reciprocating action . ) |
| 28 | The strips of course are not complete , exact rectangles ; that would be asking too much , but they obviously are strips , and obviously are symmetrical about the ridge axis — each black strip left of the axis can be matched with a similar black strip of equal width on the right of the axis , at the same distance from it . |
| 29 | As might be expected , the recent film by prolific one-man Finnish film industry Aki Kaurismaki bears only slight resemblance to the story with a similar name by Hans Christian Andersen . |
| 30 | This medium-sized breed is a larger version of the Armorican with a similar Shorthorn colour range , though it is usually dark red with small patches of white . |