Example sentences of "much like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand we can get round these difficulties , so that we can talk ( loosely ) as above without fear of any difficulties arising , by doing something which looks very much like substitution . |
| 2 | Sometimes biblical chant sounds too much like adaptation from simple anthropological textbooks , but we can see at any rate the exemplification of the way in which Lawrence 's ‘ capering redskins ’ had to be for Eliot now ‘ Life ’ but ‘ not the last word , only the first ’ . |
| 3 | My son-in-law , being a solicitor , said it was too much like work , as he is constantly attending the funerals of clients in England . |
| 4 | When that was too much like work there were all the domestic tasks to catch up on . |
| 5 | Although CD-ROMs look much like CD audio discs , they are encoded not with music but information which can be read and displayed by a computer . |
| 6 | ‘ A boss/PA relationship can be far too much like Master and Geisha if you 're not careful . |
| 7 | Physically , they look much like CD-A players . |
| 8 | The madness of hunger is indeed very much like rabies and it is truly a dog 's death . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't felt much like cooking . ’ |
| 10 | If he is the cause of the trouble , then it sounds very much like territoriality , not food-seeking ; a territorial cichlid will rarely attack much smaller fish , especially non-cichlids , but will go for territory contestants , viz other cichlids and especially conspecifics . |
| 11 | He claims these reptiles make superb pets as they sit incredibly still for hours and then go on the rampage — very much like Pest Control staff ! |
| 12 | ‘ I do not feel much like sleep , ’ he said harshly . |
| 13 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 14 | Her philosophy can at moments read like a novel , in its invented illustrations ; her novels , in their discursive passages , much like philosophy in unbuttoned mood . |
| 15 | So far , we have seen that while physics was viewed by students as exciting and forward-looking , in practice the teaching tended to be conventional and hierarchical , very much like school , with students being given a body of information to absorb . |
| 16 | The clay is separated from the matrix in which it occurs by washing it out , using high pressure ‘ monitors ’ , much like water cannons , then employing settling and flotation techniques . |
| 17 | This raises the possibility that OS/2 — and , with it , IBM 's partnership with Microsoft — will get caught in a vicious circle , much like DOS got caught in a virtuous one . |
| 18 | The Arab world is much like war . |
| 19 | I try to put myself in their shoes , because it can not be emphasized often enough that business is very much like war , despite the optimistic view that there is enough scope and space for everybody to be successful . |
| 20 | Such an ambitious Tuscan confection surely deserves a cakestand , assembled as it is on a noble pedestal of rock , its buildings ( mixed plain and fancy ) composed of that porous tufa which looks much like sponge cake and which comes in all the golds , pinks , browns and mauves of the best Battenberg . |
| 21 | It may seem too much like confinement , a denial of individual enterprise and the constraining of intuition into patterns of conformity . |
| 22 | The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it . |
| 23 | Her nipple was hard and swollen in Luke 's mouth , its hot stinging ache too much like pleasure , and she knew herself doubly degraded , by his kiss and by her own response to it , the pleading curve of her body as she pressed herself into his mouth a flagrant denial of the protest screaming in her mind . |
| 24 | Martinho and I were separated , then put back to back at about twenty metres , very much like pistol duellists from the old time . |
| 25 | In its composition the bakers are not sparing of fresh butter , milk and eggs ; but though it be raised it has a burned taste , and is too much like cake . |
| 26 | It 's really the calorie content which should make you careful — and the knowledge that a steady stream of alcohol acts much like caffeine in coffee , slowing down the action of the liver and thus , our metabolic rate . |
| 27 | This consists , basically , of , in other words it is a linear long-chain molecule much like Figure 7 . |
| 28 | Jack did n't feel much like eating , but to please her he swallowed toast and peanut butter . |
| 29 | The ion trajectories are deflected and focused at the edges of the shadow cone much like rain falls off an umbrella , as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 30 | They shed black faeces much like grit and can cause severe itching . |