Example sentences of "bear [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practitioners of different disciplines within the life sciences exploited the general idea of evolution in different ways , some of which bore little resemblance to Darwin 's own approach . |
| 2 | By contrast , the Saigon club scene , shot in the Fort Benning Officer 's Club , bore little resemblance to reality . |
| 3 | The familiar doll-like figure in the engraving ( said to have been taken from a portrait in the possession of Mrs Vial ) is stated by Bracy Clark to bear little resemblance to Vial . |
| 4 | The meal bore some resemblance to Filippo 's formula ; after about six courses you realise you 're still in the thick of the antipasto . |
| 5 | It was past midnight , so this was the start of Sunday , and Sundays in Taiwan were not going to bear much resemblance to Sundays in the countries she had known so far . |
| 6 | The dreams cease to bear much relation to reality , but are so important to both men that they can not be awakened from , controlled or stopped , by anything short of death . |
| 7 | In February 1984 the strange , black snow that fell on the Scottish Cairngorms bore more resemblance to vinegar than frozen water . |
| 8 | As a result , Sranan bears little resemblance to English : its grammar and phonology have more in common with the African languages of the original slave population than with English , and its vocabulary , though largely English in origin , has undergone alterations which make it sound very unlike English : Sranan kondre na wan asi-tere ; wan dey a way so , a trawan a way so . |
| 9 | It bears little resemblance to bikes popular in the West , which was ruefully noted by the Shanghai Bicycle Factory recently . |
| 10 | A new sintered glass product which bears little similarity to Siporax is Biohome which is reviewed on our What 's New pages this month . |
| 11 | This is a definition which , while perhaps satisfying the intellectual appetites of a few myopic geophysicists , and considerably more satisfying than that of the Pentagon , still bears little relation to reality . |
| 12 | Hence from using a dictionary one could determine that hot dog bears little relation to canines . |
| 13 | The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment . |
| 14 | It bears many similarities to Scotland , with the same population and an equally diverse geography . |
| 15 | The economic situation in Russia bears many similarities to Germany in the 1920s and we all know what followed in the l930s . |
| 16 | Attributes for it er firmly rooted in a Celtic past that frankly bears more relation to Wales and Scotland than it does er to the past er in Devon . |
| 17 | It will be interesting to see if nature 's solution to this problem bears any resemblance to man 's . |
| 18 | This image may well have borne some relation to reality at one time in the first half of this century and the second half of the last , following the process of industrialization which took men out of the home to work in factories . |
| 19 | They bear some resemblance to figurines of the Italic culture of central Italy of the mid-first millennium BC . |
| 20 | Charges bear some relation to consumption and it would be relatively simple to set up and run , but , like the flat-rate charge , there 's no incentive to save water . |
| 21 | Written by Christopher Bigsby , broadcaster and Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia , Hester and its eponymous heroine nevertheless bear some relation to Nathaniel Hawthorne 's novel . |
| 22 | This approach has been highly successful with the thalassaemias , a group of disorders which bear many similarities to sickle cell disease . |