Example sentences of "rather like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is rather like a lyric author herself , a bit of a lyre . |
| 2 | Better still , the whole board should be protected within a framework rather like a picture frame with its face covered with clear polycarbonate sheet . |
| 3 | These are the body 's pain suppressors , rather like a natural form of the drug morphine . |
| 4 | occasionally one feels , as a teacher , rather like a soccer referee who , having blown his whistle for the kick-off , finds the players disconcertingly reluctant to make a move and is reduced to dribbling the ball himself furiously from end to end , scoring brilliant goals in undefended nets , while the motionless players look curiously on . |
| 5 | In that sense , if in no other , I have felt these past weeks rather like a dentist . |
| 6 | It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote . |
| 7 | It is for government to say it will not fund us adequately , not for us to go round saying it rather like a lot of sheep . |
| 8 | This was due entirely to the ferocious efforts of Gloucester , no lovers of Bath , whose idea of a welcome last month was to treat their visitors rather like a doormat . |
| 9 | The effect is rather like a newspaper carrying blank columns where items have been banned . |
| 10 | In another there is in fact no seat as such , rather like a monk 's misericord , a chair that is not a chair ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 11 | It was a big stone , not round , but elongated and shaped rather like a mandolin . |
| 12 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 13 | But good bloodily triumphs at the end of a film made by James Marcus rather like a Warner Brothers gangster picture set incongruously in Soho and gone rather badly off-key . |
| 14 | The lamb had a nice expression rather like a kitten 's . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've often thought that each person is rather like a different vessel out at sea . |
| 16 | In ( a ) a thin strip of metal is tightly twisted to produce a hollow tube rather like a very thin drinking straw . |
| 17 | Her life really was that of one of the anawim , the ‘ little ones ’ of God — and the distaste that many of us feel for her is rather like a similar distaste for Thérèse of Lisieux . |
| 18 | He can then take his foot off the pedal as the revs will now stay at their preset level , rather like a cruise control in a car . |
| 19 | Rather like a Jackanapes , but with the colour in the calyx running around the edge like a frill . |
| 20 | The BBC is rather like a cross between the Church of England and the Post Office . |
| 21 | The block is shaped rather like a slice of cake , with its narrow point on Seven Dials and the two sides radiating outwards . |
| 22 | We found the nest derelict after the last bad weather , the hedgehog dead and deflated , looking rather like a cheap toupee among the leaves . |
| 23 | With David Dimbleby and Peter Sissons occupying curvy command modules jutting out over a sea of computer screens and flashing lights , it seemed rather like a cross between the deck of the Starship Enterprise and an Italian disco . |
| 24 | Leper houses were common in the Middle Ages : ‘ Nearly every village and burg had one — rather like a Holiday Inn or a Sleep Cheap Motel . ’ |
| 25 | It is also exceptionally useful in the Western kitchen , rather like a less assertive Worcestershire sauce . |
| 26 | Labour today is rather like a car company whose models have acquired a reputation for unreliability . |
| 27 | It may then mediate in the dispute — rather like a referee at a football match — trying to keep the sides apart and probably insisting on a ‘ cease-fire ’ until a peaceful settlement can be negotiated . |
| 28 | If subsequently a critical incident happens which is pertinent to the individual 's particular dysfunctional assumption , then , rather like a key fitting into a lock , the dysfunctional assumptions are activated . |
| 29 | Their main prey is the Lemming ( rather like a large field-vole ) . |
| 30 | Gastropods of this type are characterized by strong ribs produced into spines , a long aperture , and relatively low spire looking rather like a Mayan pyramid . |