Example sentences of "[noun] to anything [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 2 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |
| 3 | But he refused to compare the projected newspaper to anything on the present market , and insisted that only he could shape it . |
| 4 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |
| 5 | Radio and television programmes of the high inquiring calibre of ‘ Today ’ , ‘ The World at One ’ or ‘ Newsnight ’ do not exist in France to anything like the same degree . |
| 6 | George V had found Lloyd George 's scattering of honours ‘ disagreeable and distasteful ’ , according to his private secretary , Lord Stamfordham , and while no subsequent prime minister has abused the system to anything like the same degree , they can not kick the habit . |