Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] a similar [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend with a Spitfire has bought a similar machine and a small group will no doubt emerge to enjoy this new game . |
| 2 | Young designers to have suffered a similar fate to Ronay include Val Piriou , Joe Casely-Hayford and John Galliano , although Galliano is one of the luckier ones . |
| 3 | They indicated that both of the main political parties had reached a similar conclusion . |
| 4 | Taiwan had established a similar organization , the Straits Exchange Foundation ( SEF ) , in November 1990 [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 5 | Studies in experimental animals have shown a similar rise of liver protein synthesis during inflammation and after injection of endotoxin or recombinant cytokines . |
| 6 | The Education Committee has taken a similar decision in principle for teaching staff and is likely to finalise the matter later this summer . |
| 7 | South Korea formally submitted its application for UN membership on Aug. 5 , North Korea having made a similar application in July [ see p. 38341 ] . |
| 8 | He chose Wordsworth 's father , John , probably because Richard Wordsworth had held a similar position a generation before . |
| 9 | Mrs Knelle 's boy had attended a similar boarding school to the Cistercian college , and had then gone to Maynooth , a prestigious Dublin seminary for priests . |
| 10 | The previous ( December 1987 ) issues of Vanguard had used a similar rhetoric . |
| 11 | GRAEME Souness 's triple heart bypass and the reminder last week that former Wimbledon champion Arthur Ashe had undergone a similar operation have prompted the question : do athletes overtax their hearts ? |
| 12 | Regulators have undergone a similar conversion . |
| 13 | While a reasonable level of polyunsaturates have been shown to lower harmful cholesterol levels in the blood , an excess of polyunsaturates has also been linked to tumours in rats , though no trials have proved a similar link in humans . |
| 14 | Merck has concluded a similar arrangement with the New York Botanical Gardens : botanists there pass on potentially-useful plants to Merck , which has agreed to give royalties to the country of origin should a marketable drug result . |
| 15 | An August politburo meeting had reached a similar conclusion [ see p. 37643 ] . |
| 16 | I wish that all members of the Community had reserved a similar power not to join , but that was not to be . |
| 17 | Scientists advising the IWC have taken a similar view . |
| 18 | A number of banks have adopted a similar scheme to enable staff to continue their studies where tuition would not otherwise be available . |
| 19 | The black director Spike Lee has made a similar mistake in Malcolm X , not so much in characterisation but in allowing awe of the man who challenged white authority in America to come in the way of good film-making . |
| 20 | If the Maronites had taken a similar path , perhaps seeking a confederated state within a Greater Lebanon , the catastrophe that befell their grandsons might have been averted . |
| 21 | It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism . |
| 22 | Even more modern industries such as motor vehicles , tobacco and electrical goods had adopted a similar pattern . |
| 23 | He must have been a very attractive man once , I thought , and then wondered , suddenly , if Adam had had a similar thought about me . |
| 24 | Other investors have taken a similar line . |
| 25 | One could argue that the similarity is coincidental ; alternatively , one could claim that similar conditions have evoked a similar response to two events separated by half a century . |
| 26 | A number of studies have used a similar methodology to the paired associate learning experiments but concentrated on memory for details of the arousing slides themselves ( Christianson & E. F. Loftus , 1991 ; Christianson , E. F. Loftus , Hoffman & G. R. Loftus , 1991 ) . |
| 27 | The 24-year-old Barbadian captain has followed a similar path to Adams and Samuels , through the West Indies youth team for whom he first appeared in 1985 , against Young England ( including Philip DeFreitas and Phil Tufnel ) and into the full Barbados team at 18 . |
| 28 | Twenty days before Kennedy 's assassination his South Vietnamese satrap , President Diem had suffered a similar fate , with the collusion of the US authorities . |
| 29 | Other public sector bodies have adopted a similar approach , although recent years have witnessed a growing tendency , particularly in the nationalized industries , for an increasing proportion of capital expenditure to be financed out of current expenditure . |
| 30 | AT&T has had a similar experience with its Global Business Communications Systems subsidiary , which sells $1 billion of telecommunications gear annually to corporate customers . |