Example sentences of "similar to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the kangaroos are the predominant grazers , and have evolved a stomach for digesting large amounts of coarse vegetation that is similar to the ruminant stomach of the cattle and antelopes . |
| 2 | In Britain , Trebor has organized 230 production workers into unsupervised , self-organizing teams with degrees of autonomy and control similar to the high-performance teams at Digital . |
| 3 | Lawler ( 1986 ) argues that there are around 200 ‘ new design plants ’ in American companies adopting harmonized skills-based payment systems , self-managing teams and fiat management hierarchies — an approach similar to the high-performance strategy developed by Digital . |
| 4 | The leaves of cabbages , mustard and some other brassicas contain toxic mustard oil , similar to the deadly mustard gas . |
| 5 | Next row : Similar to the first decrease row ( see point 13 ) . |
| 6 | That 's very similar to the straightforward hypothermia that you 'd might find in an old person or somebody who 's in a , in a snowy field all night , have you all got that ? |
| 7 | This confusion simulator program gives an output similar to the real pattern recogniser , working on the same database of characters , probabilities and dependencies [ Keenan , 1990 ] . |
| 8 | What you advocate is similar to the International Baccalaureat , a successful school-leaving certificate pioneered by the International School in Geneva and now accepted by reputable universities worldwide , including Britain . |
| 9 | These were similar to the ordinary buskins but extended up beyond the knee : ‘ They used to flap about as you walked ; but they were whoolly useful in bad weather . ’ |
| 10 | The outdoor game is now played on astroturf and is very similar to the indoor game . |
| 11 | Montgomery ( 1981 ) classifies Cued Speech as a phoneme transmission system similar to the Danish Hand — Mouth system ( Forchhammer , 1903 ) . |
| 12 | Despite a non-linear increase of luminal rectal radius similar to the rectal CSA increase , the increase of the circumferential wall tension with increasing distension pressures was linear . |
| 13 | Nonetheless unlike many of their Palaeozoic companions , they survived the late Permian extinction , and the ancestors of the living Nautilus even underwent a minor evolutionary burst in the Mesozoic , where forms quite similar to the pearly Nautilus can be common fossils . |
| 14 | This apparently selective effect on alkaline pancreatic secretion is similar to the specific effect of intracerebroventricular neuropeptide Y on the biliary bicarbonate observed in these studies . |
| 15 | ‘ Their current crisis is very similar to the industrial upheaval which Teesside and the North-East suffered in the early '80s , except that in Czechoslovakia things are worse . ’ |
| 16 | Though evidently similar to the moral values of certain Greek philosophers , these virtues were considered typically Roman . |
| 17 | Accordingly it was agreed that the free-standing clock should be built very similar to the one John Ellicott made in 1740 , and featured on p. 288 in the standard reference work by Cescinsky & Webster , English Domestic Clocks . |
| 18 | VAT due on the importation of goods from other EC countries , now termed acquisitions , will be done by the reintroduction of a self supply , recognised by older hands as very similar to the postponed accounting system , abolished in late 1984 . |
| 19 | The formula on offer by the company last night is said to be similar to the rejected package but with slightly better redundancy terms . |
| 20 | ( v ) Third reading This is similar to the second reading , except that details have now been settled in committee and on report and the House is concerned again with the question of the whole Bill as now amended . |
| 21 | Our histological patterns were very similar to the ultrastructural ones : a normal epithelium colonised by an interrupted file of organisms lying on the epithelial surface ; a degenerated epithelium colonised by a reduced number of bacteria that seemed adherent to the epithelial surface or at intercellular junctions . |
| 22 | This is uncomfortably similar to the endemic guilt of constituency agents like me , since it 's our role to believe that everything die Partei does at all times is absolutely right . |
| 23 | ( It was similar to the 1970 Education ( Handicapped Children ) Act for England and Wales . ) |
| 24 | Elongated cables are similar to the classic cricket sweater cables but by both making them narrower and alternating the crossovers you can give a more fashion conscious look to a garment . |
| 25 | WHILE SNES players are in for a treat with Super Mario Kart , sadly the same can not be said for NES owners , with their Christmas Mario offering , Mario and Yoshi — a game which takes the form of a puzzle startlingly similar to the classic Tetris . |
| 26 | Third , lead isotope values lie in a small coherent field ( ) similar to the Dupal group and quite different from the trend for mid-ocean-ridge and ocean-island basalts . |
| 27 | Moreover , both viruses encode proteins similar to the eukaryotic transcription factor SII ( TFIIS ; ( 10 , 11 ) ) . |
| 28 | The mechanism of action of the ASFV protein similar to the eukaryotic TFIIS and to the vaccinia virus protein rpo30 could shed light on this matter , considering that the eukaryotic protein is an RNA polymerase-associated transcription factor , while rpo30 is considered a true enzyme subunit due to its tight association to the viral enzyme ( 10 ) . |
| 29 | NP1450L and EP1242L are more similar to the eukaryotic RNA polymerase II subunits than to those of vaccinia virus |
| 30 | The results , shown in Tables I and II , demonstrate that the ASFV proteins are more similar to the eukaryotic RNA polymerase II subunits than to those of vaccinia virus . |