Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] like [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is that they will become superfluous , to be replaced by a new prototype that looks remarkably like a rugby league player . |
| 2 | This species looks rather like the heart urchin but the petal-like areas are much more deeply sunken , the forward pair very short . |
| 3 | Physically , it looks much like a video cassette recorder with a matt black livery chosen , no doubt , to suggest its connection with the world of hi-fi audio , televisions and video . |
| 4 | Her tameness drops away like a spring moult , and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else . |
| 5 | And remember that the benefits wo n't usually change with inflation — so a figure that looks more like a telephone number now than a pension may be much smaller , in real terms , when you retire . |
| 6 | Sebastiane , the six-foot-two model who looks more like a champion hurdler than a clothes-horse , strides into the room in flat shoes . |
| 7 | Looks more like a cotton wool factory than a cherry orchard . |
| 8 | ‘ Looks more like a home prescription to me , ’ the man said gloomily when he returned with a phial of pills . |
| 9 | A far cry from her ‘ strong woman with positive aggression ’ image , the photo looks more like a family snapshot . |
| 10 | The tax schedule in the UK looks more like the schedule OBDEF . |
| 11 | ‘ Looks more like the communications centre of a nuclear sub . ’ |
| 12 | And he dresses more like a rock star than a businessman . |
| 13 | Looping the loop and executing mid-flight victory rolls might be sensational on the coin-op , but without that gyroscopic cabinet thingie the effects are nowhere as impressive , and the thinness of the gameplay stands out like a Spectrum owner at a computer fair . |
| 14 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
| 15 | The phone goes off like an alarm clock at my elbow . |
| 16 | It is important to appreciate that the processes which are illustrated in Figure 4 are going on the surface of a special structure ( it is called a ‘ ribosome ’ ) , which acts rather like the assembly line on which cars are put together , holding the various molecules in position . |
| 17 | ‘ Telekinesis ’ roars away like a kamikaze jet nearing target . |
| 18 | In use , the card acts just like a disk drive but it responds instantaneously . |
| 19 | To the east are the Aonachs , the brooding big beasts tamed to a degree now by poor old Aonach Mor 's ski-tows , which it wears uncomfortably like a lorry driver sporting gold neck chains . |
| 20 | He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes |
| 21 | I used the Digitech Whammy Pedal and just went crazy with it : it sounds just like a cat fight outside your bedroom window at three in the morning ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ That 's right the 'ole thing sounds just like the Salvation Army , only posher . |
| 23 | It sounds more like a yoga class , but Pierre 's technique has helped thousands of people who either could n't swim at all or just did n't like putting their head underwater . |
| 24 | Likewise the Apple Menu , which sounds more like a computer programme than dinner . |
| 25 | It sounds more like a hunting knife . |
| 26 | But a royal expert who heard one said : ‘ There is a huge question mark because the woman 's voice sounds more like an Essex girl than a Sloane . ’ |
| 27 | It sounds hopelessly like a student life but we took it deadly seriously . |
| 28 | It has a single lubricator for the cylinders and a single safety valve which divides out like a Drummond safety valve on top of the dome . |
| 29 | Looking from points Q and P the linear charge distribution between z=-H and z=H appears more like a point charge concentrated at 0 . |
| 30 | Remember what your psalmist says : ‘ The devil goes around like a lion seeking whom he would devour . ’ |