Example sentences of "[was/were] similar in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Dorin , Scottish Natural Heritage 's Orkney officer , said yesterday the transducers were similar in size to oil drums but that they were hoping to find someone prepared to fly them up . |
| 2 | These rises were similar in magnitude to the effects of intracolonic deoxycholate in this study . |
| 3 | The basic questions on outworkers and homeworkers in WIRS were similar in character to those on temporary workers . |
| 4 | The NCC survey found that amongst the chairbound , the reported problems were similar in nature to those of the wider sample , but of much greater intensity . |
| 5 | At a ‘ grass-roots ’ level he proposed a series of common councils without statutory duties that were similar in conception to those later established in Scotland . |
| 6 | The tripartite deal was similar in scope to one agreed in August 1988 [ see p. 36709 ] . |
| 7 | The legislation was similar in scope to the current federal abortion law enshrined within the Supreme Court 's 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark ruling , the foundation for legal abortions within the USA . |
| 8 | It occupied an entire building and was similar in capacity to the programmable pocket calculator that one now buys at the stationers . |
| 9 | Also lacking through routes , as well as extending over seventy miles , Sussex has always been administered in two divisions with two county towns , of which the second , Lewes , was similar in size to Chichester , though less prosperous at this time in having far fewer affluent burgesses and no well-paid artificers . |
| 10 | The picture was similar in relation to sectioned women where female family members were consulted , but interestingly females were not generally consulted where women were not admitted . |
| 11 | His two secretaries at the Board became the Under Secretaries , and in many respects the new Office was similar in organization to Offices of the other Secretaries of State . |