Example sentences of "a similar fate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neath could suffer a similar fate , but any punishment will be linked to the severity of the report . |
| 2 | Warning that a similar fate would befall other convicted killers , the interior ministry said the three , two brothers and a relative , had killed three people and wounded a policeman . |
| 3 | When Ceausescu in 1968 refused to become involved in the Warsaw Pact intervention against Czechoslovakia , and publicly condemned it , the Kremlin was furious , and briefly threatened Romania that a similar fate awaited them . |
| 4 | Israel has , in God 's eyes , so it seems , become another Egypt , deserving of a similar fate . |
| 5 | Turner 's Mercury and Herse suffered a similar fate , dragging down the sale 's total to £1.2 million with a punishing 42 per cent bought in by value . |
| 6 | A similar fate had befallen Tony Crosland , President of the Board of Trade , a year earlier . |
| 7 | All you need is love — the requiem for John Lennon , prophet of peace who met a similar fate . |
| 8 | No doubt the dead man had returned in an unsuccessful attempt to save his friend from a similar fate . |
| 9 | The Port More borehole in the Rathlin Basin in north Antrim had a similar fate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Most of the development schemes undertaken by the British in Masailand — and there were many — met a similar fate . |
| 12 | If this was justification for blockading and bombing his country , most of the regimes propped up by the US would be awaiting a similar fate . |
| 13 | A similar fate befell Adelaide Crescent , begun in the west in 1830 to complement Kemp Town by Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmith on his Hove estate . |
| 14 | ICI endured a similar fate . |
| 15 | Poor Mary , Charles 's daughter who was buried at Catherine Hill in 1779 , was to share a similar fate with many Titfords of the period — a fate we have seen before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A similar fate befell Adam Watson , who subsequently called for the quizmaster 's resignation . |
| 18 | During 1991 , for instance , Hi-Five 's ‘ I Like The Way ( The Kissing Game ) ’ , a Jive release , headed the US listings but failed to dent the Top 40 here , a similar fate befalling Surface 's ‘ The First Time ’ . |
| 19 | The Dwarfs were determined that their king should not endure a similar fate . |
| 20 | That a hospital lets babies with minimal brains and no conscious potential die would occasion less hostility , and many might even approve , than if mongoloids were dealt a similar fate . |
| 21 | The very significant contribution RARDE made towards resolving the cause of the explosion in a BEA Comet off Rhodes in 1967 was followed in 1974 by an invitation from the US National Transportation Safety Board to demonstrate their techniques to the FBI when a TWA Boeing 707 suffered a similar fate near Crete . |
| 22 | Despite the encouraging signs mentioned earlier , there is a danger that it may meet a similar fate to all its worthy predecessors . |
| 23 | There are many other groups which suffer a similar fate to women . |
| 24 | A similar fate has befallen another gift , now removed by the Federal Army . |
| 25 | Degas himself showed little interest in casting the waxes into bronze , though three sculptures were made into trial plasters and a similar fate was considered for the ‘ Little dancer ’ . |
| 26 | He was compared with Aristides the Just , and there were those who wished a similar fate for him . |
| 27 | A similar fate befell other proposals over the following years . |
| 28 | Graffunder 's Seamen 's and Tradesmen 's Union ceased to exist in August 1893 and others of like kind met a similar fate . |
| 29 | During the eight short months that he lived following his resignation , he was plagued by a sense of foreboding that the future would hold a similar fate for himself . |
| 30 | Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate . |