Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Check out Ian Marshalls rating … he s down as a central defender . |
2 | PERFECT PORRIDGE This easy recipe is rather like a hot version of muesli but uses the best kind of oats , has wheatgerm as a bonus and indulgent toppings . |
3 | She is rather like a lyric author herself , a bit of a lyre . |
4 | It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote . |
5 | Parsley needs far more root-room than it is usually given ; the main or tap root is rather like a small carrot , and this should be allowed for . |
6 | The fruit is rather like a small peach , but the hull dies off towards the end of the season . |
7 | Two years later Julian Barnes , in Flaubert 's Parrot ( 1984 ) , entertained the same subversive point in a novel of impish erudition : the past , he suggests in his opening chapter , is rather like a greasy piglet , and anyone who tries to seize it is bound to look ridiculous . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ I 've often thought that each person is rather like a different vessel out at sea . |
10 | ‘ The frame is rather like a giant Mecanno set which you construct as you need to , ’ said Mr Montgomery . |
11 | ‘ The frame is rather like a giant Meccano set which you construct as you need to , ’ said Mr Montgomery . |
12 | Since the abalone is rather like a large snail in having a protruding ‘ foot ’ , it does not need to be opened in the same way as a mussel for the otter to eat it . |
13 | ‘ It is rather like a human Scud missile . ’ |
14 | The first impression is rather like an American city , with the clusters of skyscrapers ( some half-built ) in the ‘ down-town area ’ , but underneath the skyscrapers there are some nice little squares and open spaces full of beautiful exotic trees and lush grass . |
15 | The effect is rather like an extended advertisement for Marlboro Lights . |
16 | It is rather like an empty filing cabinet waiting for the files to go in . |
17 | I believe she 's rather at a loose end , but she said she could n't seem to fancy an exterminator . ’ |
18 | She said laughingly , ‘ It 's rather like a mini zoo , is n't it ? |
19 | It 's rather like a concrete bunker but hopefully with some work we can make it look quite nice . |
20 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing local network-based multisystem electronic mail products , hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter roll-out : Hitachi reckons that it 's on to a good thing because veca : International Data Corp predicts the worldwide market will be 77m users in 1996 ; Hitachi is expected to make a point of integration , management and directory synchronisation likely using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol . |
21 | Hitachi figures it 's on to a good thing : IDC predicts the worldwide market will be 77 million users in 1996 . |
22 | She 's on to a good thing and she knows it . |
23 | I hoped he 'd leave her in peace but he knows when he 's on to a good thing . ’ |
24 | But my guess is that the Festival is on to a real winner in the merchandising stakes , having seen bits of the logo featured in imaginative guises on clothing , stationary , mugs , and even Festival cheques . |
25 | The hon. Gentleman is on to a weak point . |
26 | So any cream or potion which implies ( the advertising standards authority objects to claims that can not be proven ) that your skin will look more radiant and youthful is on to a good thing . |
27 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
28 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
29 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
30 | The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election . |