Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [adj] resemblance to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She bore a striking resemblance to the notorious James Bond character Rosa Klebb , ’ Anne wrote . |
| 2 | ‘ That you bear a remarkable resemblance to my very good friend Mathilda , younger sister of the Princess of Hohenzollern . ’ |
| 3 | Did anyone ever tell you that you bear an uncanny resemblance to a young Harrison Ford ? ’ |
| 4 | She had a physical resemblance to Ramsey 's dead mother . |
| 5 | In fact they bear a striking resemblance to a hearse ’ . |
| 6 | They bear a striking resemblance to Koquillion . |
| 7 | They bore an uncanny resemblance to Robbie Coltrane 's television caricature Orangeman . |
| 8 | He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy . |
| 9 | It bore a hideous resemblance to the blighting , punishing sorts of work which are common in the world at large . |
| 10 | ‘ It bore a fair resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition . |
| 11 | It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before . |
| 12 | To some — notably the three Oz editors — it bore an irresistible resemblance to a urinal . |
| 13 | And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba , too . |
| 14 | In fact he bears a vague resemblance to Crocodile Dundee , although his strong upper class English accent , roughened by a liking for Rothman cigarettes , quickly dispelled that image . |
| 15 | Probably the largest on the earth 's surface , to me it bears a passing resemblance to a somewhat distorted version of a face that was popular in Eighties amusement arcades — that belonging to a creature called Pac-Man . |
| 16 | Although in profile and painted , rather than in relief , it bears a striking resemblance to the Alletio sherd from Corbridge . |
| 17 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 18 | It bears a remarkable resemblance to the kind of natural time machine postulated by Frank Tipler , of the University of Texas . |
| 19 | It bears an uncanny resemblance to GM 's victorious Sunraycer of two years ago . |