Example sentences of "in a similar " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a similar survey undertaken in 1974 , Greeley found the effectiveness of catholic schools either the same or slightly increased . |
| 2 | Acts in a similar way to the mini-pill and also stops ovulation . |
| 3 | For in a similar vein to the criminal ‘ enemy ’ , the researcher 's activities are across the bounds , a challenge to be taken on , attacked , and , destroyed or at least to be denied . |
| 4 | In a similar fashion , all the representative bodies of the police — ACPO , the Superintendents ' Association , and the Police Federation — were outraged at the creation of the Crown Prosecution Service in the Prosecution of Offences Act in the mid-1980s ; for one area of police power in the courts had been removed at one fell swoop and given to another arm of the executive . |
| 5 | In a similar vein , a cartoon in Police magazine ( January 1981 ) repeats an old joke but puts it into the mouth of a totally bald senior officer . |
| 6 | Across the Channel , Sherwood had indulged in a similar restoration exercise with a variety of former Wagons-Lits coaches , arranging the professional refurbishment of the sleeping cars , diners , day cars and staff vehicles by the Wagon-Lits shops at Ostende , and the Bremer Waggonbau company at Bremen . |
| 7 | The importance of Healey Mills yard ( West Yorkshire ) has declined in a similar way , with most of its shunting duties transferred to Tinsley ( Sheffield ) and Doncaster . |
| 8 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 9 | Quadrature sine or triangular waves are derived from the VCO timing capacitor in a similar manner to that described in ref.1 . |
| 10 | Later he responded in a similar way to D. H. Lawrence 's criticism , as well as to his creative achievement . |
| 11 | In principle it would be quite possible for the study of English poetry to begin in a similar ab initio fashion , except that it would be fruitless for someone to embark on it who did not have at least some familiarity with poetry and a wish to read more . |
| 12 | There are 77 other local authorities playing the markets in a similar , though less extensive , way , and a similar number of financial institutions are involved . |
| 13 | In a similar way , he developed a totally new technique for studying branching fibres by using pairs of fluorescent dyes , with the potential for being picked up by separate branches . |
| 14 | On Wednesday leaders of 12,000 white-collar workers at Ford put in a similar claim plus a call for low interest mortgages and a car leasing scheme . |
| 15 | ‘ I would like Gary to have another fight this year ( there is a Wembley date available ) and we are looking at people in a similar class to Biggs , ’ Terry Lawless said . |
| 16 | This week in Lausanne , at the conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , Kenya , supported by the governments of Gambia , Somalia and Tanzania , is indulging in a similar exercise in political theatre . |
| 17 | The obvious course of action — to dilute the imported spirit in a similar way with other spirits — was not an option , since importers were banned by law from doing so . |
| 18 | At least the enemy are in a similar situation probably much worse off then we are judging by the amount of shells passing over our heads to fall in their positions . |
| 19 | It was used in a similar way by the newly literate or semi-literate Bolsheviks at the higher levels of the Smolensk and Kursk guberniia party organizations , as can be seen from even a cursory reading of their minutes . |
| 20 | In a similar way , exponents of anything fitting the nebulous description New Acoustic Roots ( and its variants ) should keep a keen eye on Folk Roots magazine ( monthly ) for potential sympathizers ; jazz practitioners should get the studious Wire ( monthly ) and those operating in the more popular black fields of soul , funk , rock or rap should follow the perennial Echoes ( weekly , formerly Black Echoes ) or Blues and Soul ( biweekly ) . |
| 21 | The band must remember that recording costs are treated in a similar way to advances . |
| 22 | In 1919 Eliot felt himself to be in a similar position . |
| 23 | The weir is formed of stones which shoot fine sprays of water up through the gravel on the river bed in a similar fashion to a jacuzzi . |
| 24 | Groups of gens related in this way from phratries and phratries may be linked one to another in a similar fashion to form tribes . |
| 25 | In a similar vein there has recently been a whole range of studies of pre-industrial states by anthropologists , largely in terns of class analysis . |
| 26 | The hard-top even uses the same mechanisms and can be attached or removed in a similar time . |
| 27 | The National Opinion Poll ( NOP ) found that 32% of women were using the pill , compared with 25% in a similar poll taken in 1987 . |
| 28 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 29 | In a similar survey , Welsh hill farmers said they lost , on average , one lamb to a fox every two years . |
| 30 | Water temperature to all areas is regulated in a similar manner , as is kitchen ventilation . |