Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] a similar [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the legacy of the Irish Football Association 's promotion , whereby fans buying tickets for last night 's Latvia game were given the opportunity to purchase a similar amount for the Republic of Ireland 's visit in November . |
| 2 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 3 | The Council also urged the New England Fishery Management Council to introduce a similar ban , and called on the US delegation to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas ( ICCAT ) to support a resolution to prohibit the use of drift-nets for all tuna and other species under the jurisdiction of ICCAT . |
| 4 | A proposal to construct a similar facility in the UK , using the 10 MeV tandem accelerator at Oxford University , was submitted to the SERC in September 1989 but failed to gain support . |
| 5 | General Motors , it seems , has not yet applied for the necessary US permision to conduct a similar exercise . |
| 6 | Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head . |
| 7 | Mr Bébéar would like the chance to engineer a similar turnaround at UNI . |
| 8 | Unfortunately a request to send a similar questionnaire to local authority social services departments was declined by the service evaluation , research , and information committee of the Association of Directors of Social Services . |
| 9 | At a period when I kept house in France and could lay hands on the Gruyère of the Comté I used on occasion to cook a similar version . |
| 10 | An 18-year-old and a 16-year-old are due to appear in the same court to face a similar charge . |
| 11 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 12 | After failing to persuade his employer to produce a similar program , Ward developed one of his own , in partnership with an American programmer called Rusty Luring . |
| 13 | All sorts of small items of royal expenditure were charged to the Barbados and Leeward revenues but no other colony saw any reason to make a similar grant . |
| 14 | The labour constant should also give the operatives of different gangs or trades equal opportunity to earn a similar percentage bonus . |
| 15 | He was among the founders of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in 1973 , playing a prominent role in their series of publications on the players of each first-class county and producing the A to Z of Cricket Records in 1976 : ‘ I had seen a book on the football records and persuaded the publisher to try a similar volume on cricket records — not only listing them by explaining them . |
| 16 | Nationalism Today ( no. 39 ) used familiar graphic imagery to express a similar notion . |
| 17 | If the drama continues from week to week it might be a good idea to adopt a similar strategy at the beginning of each session — a more active way of recapping " the story so far " than through general discussion . |
| 18 | As the original tenant will in any event have a continuing liability under the lease the tenant may not consider it totally unreasonable for its assignee to have a similar liability . |
| 19 | Dr Rodwell has been commissioned by English Heritage to produce a similar book on Wells Cathedral . |
| 20 | In January 1983 , however , the High Court ruled that the GLC had power to launch a similar plan designed to reduce London Transport fares by 25 per cent . |
| 21 | With the announcement that Michael Checkland is to step down early from his post as Director General of the BBC , it seems an appropriate time to compile a similar list of ‘ ins ’ and ‘ outs ’ relating to the new BBC regime which will come in under John Birt . |