Example sentences of "similar to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These alliances were similar to the games of dice much favoured at the time : the marriages might or might not be successful ; they might or might not have political consequences . |
| 2 | It has published a booklet , called New Arrivals — A Guide to Non-religious Naming Ceremonies , which gives five alternatives , ranging from the personal to something similar to the vows in the Christian ceremony but without reference to a deity . |
| 3 | sounds similar to the sounds in the mother tongue |
| 4 | The differences between the perfusion fluid concentrations of the components in the patients and those in the controls were similar to the differences in the appearance rates ( Table ) . |
| 5 | Where a list of specific words is followed by a general word , the general word will be interpreted restrictively , and given a meaning similar to the meanings of the specific words in the list . |
| 6 | Infusion of 10 mM deoxycholate into the transverse colon or caecum produced an increase PYY that was similar to the responses in the sigmoid colon . |
| 7 | Their attitudes to the separate tasks which make up housework are on average very similar to the attitudes of the middle-class group . |
| 8 | Sometimes the enamel is almost entirely eaten away , and the dentine can take on an appearance similar to the effects of weathering ( Fig. 3.23 H ) . |
| 9 | The effects of this regime on subsequent recovery sleep are similar to the effects of REM sleep deprivation , in that a rebound of about 50 per cent occurs on recovery nights . |
| 10 | For the most common form of Down 's , accounting for 94% of all cases , the recurrence rate is about one in 100 , similar to the chances of a Down 's birth among women aged over 38 . |
| 11 | But this , she notes , was similar to the aims of Freemasonry , which , of course , she believes , is controlled by Jews . |
| 12 | The races without talons are similar to the inhabitants of other worlds in many respects . |
| 13 | Coloration is brown overlaid with a lacy network of gold and brown — similar to the markings on a giraffe . |
| 14 | The survivors from the north-west coast , and thus on ‘ home ground ’ , had thrived and put on weight , but were morphologically similar to the lizards of that group that had not survived . |
| 15 | For Scandinavia the figures are 70 per cent sulphuric acid and 30 per cent nitric acid ( Swedish Ministry of Agriculture , 1982 ) , which are similar to the values from Scotland of 71 per cent sulphuric acid and 29 per cent nitric acid ( Fowler et al. , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Their incidents are similar to the incidents of the old legal estates , though certain important changes have been introduced ( see p. 86–7 ) . |
| 17 | In some insects , including cockroaches , locusts , earwigs and termites , the young , known as nymphs , are very similar to the adults in structure and physiology , and advance to adulthood through an ordered series of moults . |
| 18 | At the same time similar surveys have been conducted in Ipswich and Cambridge , and although these results are not fully confirmed , their respective county councils state that their findings are likely to be similar to the findings from Essex . |
| 19 | Above : Handpainted tiles similar to the ones in Julie 's kitchen are available from Castelnau |
| 20 | However , those that are similar to the ones in your own language need also to be practised . |
| 21 | The simplest is to link a small hole in the wall , similar to the ones in a Pitot tube , to a manometer . |
| 22 | Ferried remarkably similar to the Germans in some ways . ’ |
| 23 | In early 1983 , infra-red images from a US NOAA ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ) satellite showed a large cloud , similar to the plumes of gas that rise over volcanoes , off the north coast of eastern Siberia . |
| 24 | It is , however , possible that this animal is a hunting dog similar to the types on Colchester vessels . |
| 25 | These characteristics are similar to the characteristics of Nottinghamshire practices as a whole . |
| 26 | These findings were similar to the results of an earlier retrospective study by the same research team of forty-eight families who had a child ( aged five to eight years ) admitted into residential care ( Quinton and Rutter , 1984a ; 1984b ) . |
| 27 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |
| 28 | The results that we obtained were similar to the results in their duodenal ulcer group so that the results of Blair et al can not be explained by the presence of H pylori . |
| 29 | When we restricted the analyses to subjects whose history of smoking was known the results were similar to the results among all subjects . |
| 30 | The application was remitted back to the board for reconsideration by the sheriff , who held that the food being provided in the public houses was not similar to the facilities to be provided by the applicant for the restaurant licence . |