Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] like [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It should be noted , however , that already with Schumpeter we have moved away from models based on the distinctiveness of the elite characteristic as an explanatory factor , to a lower-level operation which explicitly refers to realistic definitions rather than to explanations , and in which the model , such as it is , looks remarkably like a composite description of liberal democracy . |
2 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
3 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
4 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
5 | The built-in wooden dresser was already there , as was the exposed brick chimney breast — which , with the cooker slotted into the fireplace , looks rather like an old-fashioned kitchen range . |
6 | Since a primitive ankylosaur looks somewhat like a primitive stegosaur , it has been suggested that the two sub-orders were really one which split apart later on in the evolutionary story . |
7 | The ‘ hybrid ’ looks less like a controlled experiment than a hasty effort to balance political opposites . |
8 | The archway looks much like a giant length of intestine . |
9 | One calls it a console and it looks much like an awful cocktail cabinet . |
10 | US Cup press officer Jim Trecker says : ‘ If you did n't know the story , you would n't think it was anything out of the ordinary , it looks just like a plain grass field . |
11 | 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE THE REAL THING |
12 | The model , of course , looks just like the young Audrey Hepburn . |
13 | It looks exactly like the existing version but has a wider magnetic tape . |
14 | The compact disc looks physically like a smaller version of the videodisc . |
15 | The poet tells us that ‘ This race it looks not like an earthly race ’ , but it is not made clear what kind of chase we are witnessing . |
16 | Sherman and Buzzie B. climb into a totally white BMW which looks more like a modern bathroom cabinet than a car . |
17 | Barebow , which does not have the aiming and balancing mechanisms found on modern compound bows , looks more like a traditional bow — but Claudio says that that is as far as the connection with Robin Hood or William Tell goes . |
18 | Dermot , you see , is an Elvis fan , and given the right stimulants , has been known to think he looks like Presley ( although , as one bemused clubber from Leeds commented , ‘ He looks more like a young Max Bygraves ’ ) . |
19 | An ex-workmate of Webster 's in a Yorkshire chocolate factory , Simmons looks more like a sober bank clerk with his tinges of grey and quiet manners . |
20 | They fly through the air with extraordinary ease and in flight they are very distinctive — they have very long white wings with black tips and the tail looks more like a pointed piece of feather than a proper tail . |
21 | Now Riccardo Patrese looks more like a doomed astronaut … rocketing crazily out of control towards the heavens . |
22 | With all these formal and informal constraints , we can see that pure freedom for the individual actor is very unlikely ; considering all these expectations and controls that surround us , Berger 's portrayal of society as a prison begins to seem plausible : ‘ Our considerations of the sociological perspective have led us to a point where society looks more like a gigantic Alcatraz than anything else ’ ( Berger , 1966 , p. 107 ) . |
23 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
24 | On paper , the work has extraordinary power ; on its site , it looks more like an abandoned fishtank , dwarfed hopelessly by the colossal office towers of the project 's patrons . |
25 | With its grey plumage , barred underside and hawk-like shape and silhouette , the European cuckoo looks deceptively like the predatory sparrowhawk — the two are often confused . |
26 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
27 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
28 | In what looks strangely like an open invitation to the competition to plunder what is left of the 8870 base , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's Comet mix-and-match business management software , which previously ran only on the company 's Unix boxes and its proprietary 8870 and Quattro ranges , will soon run on IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines too . |
29 | In what looks strangely like an open invitation to the competition to plunder what is left of the 8870 base , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's Comet mix-and-match business management software , which previously ran only on the company 's Unix boxes and its proprietary 8870 and Quattro ranges , will soon run on IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines too . |
30 | THE kind of man who lumbers about like an injured bear : the quintessential tough guy — strong , silent and self-con-tained . |