Example sentences of "not unlike the [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grant , who was on stand-by for the full squad for a European Championship qualifier against Romania last season , was , Roxburgh reasoned , not unlike the effervescent Stuart McCall of Rangers . |
| 2 | In order to make sense of them inferential skills may be needed , as well as an understanding of certain principles not unlike the minimal distance principle that operates for pronominal reference . |
| 3 | It is a natural barrier , not unlike the man-made Iron Curtain or the Berlin Wall ; but it seems to divide men as fiercely . |
| 4 | He wore a blazer , not unlike the one Lord Woodleigh wore except that instead of discreet brass buttons it was decorated by no fewer than five enormous , tinselly affairs . |
| 5 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |
| 6 | He puffed at it , producing not a discernible tune but a catchy rhythm , while attempting a dance not unlike the Irish clog variety . |
| 7 | There used to be a polled Irish Dun dairy breed not unlike the old Suffolk Dun of eastern England . |