Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] resemblance to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ My safety was my priority , ’ said Lizzie , who bears a striking resemblance to her sister . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought ‘ You must be very calm , you must not antagonise your aggressor , just try to be calm and keep sensible , and always think what you are saying before you say it ’ , ’ said Lizzie , of Oxford , who bears a striking resemblance to her sister . |
| 4 | ‘ … who bears a close resemblance to our school janitor , Aziz — although , as far as I know , Aziz does not wander around with a tea towel on his head organizing terrorist attacks — Yasser Arafat — ’ |
| 5 | SEVE Ballesteros may not be taking part in golf 's World Cup in Madrid this week , but there is a player who bears an amazing resemblance to him . |
| 6 | THIS record of televised interviews leaves the impression that psychology bears an uncanny resemblance to its next of kin , the deity , described in a venerable formula as ‘ a sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere ’ . |