Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BM is rather like a Prolog predicate . |
| 2 | It is a relational database which is rather like a filing cabinet in which not only the dividers have been removed but also all pieces of paper without words on them . |
| 3 | On most sites , the relationship between contexts is drawn as a matrix diagram , which is rather like a family tree . |
| 4 | As a result the fax protocol , which is rather like a file transfer protocol , such as ZMODEM , has to be implemented the comms software driving the modem . |
| 5 | Labour today is rather like a car company whose models have acquired a reputation for unreliability . |
| 6 | It 's rather like a Ford Granada ; you can buy the basic version or you can pay almost as much as you would for a Jaguar and get the Ghia version . |
| 7 | And that 'll be , I 've got about a ream of , well it 's only about a ream paper . |
| 8 | It 's only like a C B power supply |
| 9 | This rna strand is called ribosome , and is somewhat like a computer tape which the rna can zip through to specify the correct amino acid . |
| 10 | However , there is no official going rate for estate agency fees and if individual agents are prepared to cut their fees , this is only for a business reason . |
| 11 | And the après ski is less like a Martini commercial and more like an episode of Colditz . |
| 12 | The ability to control a computer via a Graphical User Interface or GUI is much like a car driver who does n't need to understand the internal combustion engine to be able to manoeuvre the car with considerable skill . |
| 13 | The woman is married to the man 's best friend who is away on a business trip . |
| 14 | Right now he 's away on a skiing holiday catching the last of the snow . ’ |
| 15 | This is generally for a set sum , over an agreed period , during which you sill pay back the capital and the interest : the rate of interest is fixed at the time you take out the loan , so your monthly repayments never change . |
| 16 | The mounting and hinging of these three bones , by the way , is exactly as a hi-fi engineer might have designed it to serve a necessary " impedance-matching " function , but that is another story . |
| 17 | It is exactly like a Christmas present : it makes people feel good on the day . |
| 18 | It is just like a baby alarm . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's just like a battering ram . ’ |
| 20 | It 's just like a fly sheet that comes out every month . |
| 21 | It 's just like a family tree . |
| 22 | That 's just like a clarinet player . |
| 23 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 24 | And then on the platform every week there 's a evacuation drill where it 's usually on a Sunday night or a Saturday night it was changed to recently . |
| 25 | Two more men were taken from the hall by ambulance , and one of them is still on a life support machine . |
| 26 | One is still on a life support machine . |
| 27 | In any case , this mode of composition is still in a fluid state , and no textbook seems to exist which one can regard as completely authoritative . |
| 28 | In the short term , next week 's budget crunch is more like a toy train crash rather than the real thing . |
| 29 | It is again a network but it is more like a computer program flow diagram than either PERT or CPM . |
| 30 | It is again a network but it is more like a computer program flow diagram than either PERT or CPM . |