Example sentences of "almost identical [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Independents provide almost identical products for lower prices and motorists should not be denied the chance of buying them . ’ |
| 2 | The formal school , its very formality often proclaimed through uniforms , school prefects and termly reports which show marks and grades , continues to co-exist alongside others which although having almost identical idea on content ( eg that young children should be led to an understanding of life in caves and Victorian towns and how to calculate the area in square metres of a field or a carpet ) adopt a radically different approach to achieve a seemingly identical end . |
| 3 | Walter Gratwicke states that the original Brush ‘ B ’ type bogies were replaced at Hendon , by almost identical bogies from the Metropolitan stock of spare parts , but hardly any difference is discernible in photographs . |
| 4 | Both men want the place and both ran almost identical times in Saturday 's 4x400m relay in Portsmouth . |
| 5 | This made the limitations clause even more interesting , for the older man ( and no doubt his ancestral assumer ) had quite obviously used not a swepe or balista as the charge , but an almost identical engine of war known as a mangonel , in witty and canting allusion to the family name as used by them . |
| 6 | Bentham , starting from almost identical premises as Beccaria , gets much nearer to it . |
| 7 | Despite their almost identical chorus of ‘ Pah ! |
| 8 | Charles Forster , prosecuting , said when Fulcher had gone to his wife 's home in Berwick Hills Avenue , Middlesbrough , he was ‘ on bail following an almost identical incident in August last year . ’ |
| 9 | In addition to repeating the format of mosaic H , Woodchester , it includes almost identical representations of cupids ( pI . |
| 10 | These range from similar motifs ( and comparable placing of motifs ) to the almost identical decoration of similar structural devices . |
| 11 | Not only did they omit to date their editions , but they had almost identical books in the 7/6d [ 37½p ] and 3/6d [ 17½p ] category in cloth covers of a great variety of colours . |
| 12 | We were just having it put into its box when the Manager suddenly remembered that he had an almost identical model out the back , £25 cheaper . |
| 13 | A golden yellow line replaces that of the Redline Rasbora , and follows an almost identical path from nose to tail . |
| 14 | Two pavements from Verulamium provide almost identical versions of the same figural scene ( pls. 13 and 14 ) . |
| 15 | There was an almost identical result in Leningrad , while in Kiev the " yes " vote in the all-union referendum was only 44.6 per cent . |
| 16 | The latter pavements , admittedly , share a number of features which , together , indicate a much greater degree of affinity : similar acanthus scroll and arrangement of designs at Stonesfield and Woodchester , or the almost identical styles of the animals at Woodchester and Barton Farm . |
| 17 | It rests on the assumption that it is possible to produce large quantities of almost identical items in a modem industrial process , and therefore it is possible to establish certain tolerances within which quality is acceptable , and outside which it is not acceptable . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , at any given time there can be wide discrepancies in the prices quoted for almost identical items by retail outlets in the same town , or even the same street . |
| 19 | Chancellor Kohl spoke in almost identical terms to President Franois Mitterrand and the others in arguing that ‘ instability and uncertainty in the outside world ’ made it imperative for the EC to accelerate economic integration . |
| 20 | Lord Scar man , in constructing his view of the Brixton disorders expressed anxieties about the black family in almost identical terms to those of Ramp ton ( Scar man , 1982 , pp. 24–5 ) . |
| 21 | Bath worked an almost identical move from a scrum near the end of the match . |
| 22 | Kostomarov expressed an almost identical antipathy to the state in his inaugural lecture of November 1859 . |
| 23 | When we finished , the photographer stayed on as another agency team moved in and shot an almost identical shot for a Player 's brand — same tree , a sunrise not a sunset , a black pack not a gold one Hastily we went to press first " ( from CAMPAIGN , 16 September 1988 ) . |
| 24 | In Example 21 , Franck gives an almost identical repeat of his first phrase ( bars 1 and 2 ) , with just enough change to satisfy a forward harmonic movement which is stronger than that in the Ravel . |