Example sentences of "a similar [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In Venda , following a special session of the homeland assembly on March 13 , it was announced that a similar referendum would be held on reintegration , and also that the Constitution would be revised to allow for a multiparty system . |
| 2 | Armenia was planning to hold a similar referendum in September . |
| 3 | The UITUA said that those calling for " burning and destruction " were to be repudiated , and the DP issued a similar rejection of demonstrations in front of the People 's Assembly building . |
| 4 | Flaubert might have made a similar avowal — ‘ I leave two children , Bouvard and Pécuchet ’ — because his only child , the niece who became a daughter , had departed into disapproving adulthood . |
| 5 | ‘ He scored six points from frees and four from play and there 's nothing wrong with that — a similar helping would do nicely this Sunday , ’ smiles Carroll . |
| 6 | If members do not achieve a similar output , resentment will arise if the payment is divided equally at the end of the week . |
| 7 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 8 | The report optimistically continues that it was ‘ practically certain ’ the course would be built and adds with a final flourish of conviction ‘ Mr D. Stephenson , now professional to the Princes Golf Club , Sandwich , and formerly in a similar capacity at Huntercombe , has prepared plans of an 18-hole course on that portion of the Bolney estate fringing on the Harpsden road , with a clubhouse to be built almost directly opposite Mr. John Hodges ' cricket field . |
| 9 | D J Long , the vice-president of marketing who left Applix Inc two weeks ago , has turned up in a similar capacity at Rosh Intelligent Systems Inc , the Aurum-like turnaround former Uniplex chief Jeff Waxman is now heading up . |
| 10 | Perhaps he did not touch her very deeply but he did not shock her either , her body moving easily , without apprehension , beneath his ; her mind remaining open to the possibility of sensation , observing his pleasure with affection — glad that he should have it — yet wondering more and more frequently if a similar capacity for such joyful sensuality lay concealed somewhere within herself . |
| 11 | The Liebherr LTM 1090 crane replaces a similar capacity vehicle which had been in service at the terminal since May 1982 . |
| 12 | Access to the inter-dealer brokers in gilts ( to be distinguished from the different IDBs that act in a similar capacity in the equity market ) is restricted to GEMMs . |
| 13 | He was also the company 's standard bearer at the town 's annual common riding and as a former Master upholsterer he previously represented the Corporation of Hammermen in a similar capacity . |
| 14 | Measure down inside leg seam of a similar pair of trousers that fit . |
| 15 | hornemanni make up a similar pair , the former more southerly in distribution but overlapping in parts of their range . |
| 16 | A similar scoring system is used for the anxiety component . |
| 17 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 18 | A similar creolisation of Western painting , however , is also being attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat , the late graffiti writer turned painter now celebrated in a Whitney Museum retrospective , ( see The Art Newspaper No. 22 , November 1992 , p.10 ) . |
| 19 | A similar portfolio had enabled another ‘ unemployable ’ student to obtain freelance work as one of the few fashion models in a wheelchair . |
| 20 | BAI , based at York , is a leading agricultural merchant with a similar portfolio . |
| 21 | In Lotus Development Corp. v Paperback Software International ( 1990 ) , the defendant claimed that he had not copied the Lotus program code but had used a similar menu system to achieve compatibility ( especially with respect to spreadsheet files and macros ) and to enable people to change to VP-Planner from Lotus 1-2-3 without requiring re-training . |
| 22 | A similar checklist in the original report , showing companies which used five or more techniques , threw up names like Maxwell Communication Corporation which subsequently went into administration , Asda whose boardroom shake-up followed a £365m pre-tax loss , LEP which is now in the hands of a company doctor , British Aerospace which is about to undergo further restructuring , and Ultramar which was taken over after reporting losses . |
| 23 | Adam must have got it from him , Lewis sometimes thought , or perhaps ( he much later and very bitterly thought ) a similar pedantry in Adam was among the things Hilbert liked about him . |
| 24 | While welcoming the news of the developments in Lancashire , shop stewards at the Albion axle works in Glasgow said that did not alter the position at their factory , where there was little likelihood of a similar buy-out . |
| 25 | At the same time in England a similar union of king and Church was maintained by Edgar , by Ethelred the Unready when he was his own master , and by Cnut . |
| 26 | Carriker ( 1981 ) observed that the curious position of the accessory boring organ on top of the ventral pedal gland in and purpura Thais ( and in a similar genus , Rapana ) suggests a close affinity between these taxa . |
| 27 | A similar retardation has been recorded from Fiji where the fertilizer applied was some 195 kg P per hectare . |
| 28 | Our results in yeast are similar to observations from a similar assay in mammalian cells , although in that case no Max-Max interactions were detected . |
| 29 | Every culture in Britain at the moment has a similar philosophy as far as size goes : if you want to look good , be desirable , you 've got to be thin . |
| 30 | ‘ I have heard a similar philosophy enunciated by the schoolmen , ’ Corbett rejoined , ‘ but , seeing into the future ? ’ |