Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] like the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE THE REAL THING |
| 3 | The model , of course , looks just like the young Audrey Hepburn . |
| 4 | It looks exactly like the existing version but has a wider magnetic tape . |
| 5 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is the slender , wheat-coloured , lyre-horned Froment du Léon , which looks very like the old dun Shetland cows of the early twentieth century and almost identical to the modern Guernsey in conformation but not in horn . |
| 8 | It is all the more striking a testimony to the power of natural selection , therefore , that numerous examples can be found in real nature , in which independent lines of evolution appear to have converged , from very different starting points , on what looks very like the same endpoint . |
| 9 | When the penis is flaccid it hangs there like the last chicken in Sainsbury 's . |
| 10 | This violent ritual of territorial supremacy , as described by Walter Besant in 1901 , sounds remarkably like the modern practice at football grounds of ‘ holding the End ’ : ‘ The boys gather together and hold the street ; if anyone ventures to pass through it they rush upon him , knock him down , and kick him savagely about the head ; they rob him as well … the boys regard holding the street with pride . ’ |
| 11 | Few , including me , would have thought the third rate guitar outfit of old capable of such divine inspiration but ‘ Screamadelica ’ sounds suspiciously like the baggy generation 's answer to ‘ Sgt. Pepper ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ It sounds rather like the Holy Trinity . ’ |
| 13 | The Orphic idea of Chronos , which may have had an influence on Pythagoras , seems rather like the Iranian idea of Zurvan akarana . |
| 14 | The latter condition seems much closer to megalomania , which we understand to be an immense inflation of the ego , whereas the former seems more like the manic interludes in depression . |
| 15 | What he has in mind seems curiously like the Ripping Yarns TV series in which he and Terry Jones sent up the boy 's adventure story with tales like ‘ Across the Andes by Frog ’ . |
| 16 | This reads just like the conversational style of the Soviet satirist of NEP , M. Zoshchenko . |
| 17 | Already it feels more like the two weeks Guy promised . |
| 18 | Without the right to asylum , Germany thus becomes much like the other members of the European Community , whose ministers met on June 1st to try to devise a common system for dealing with refugees . |
| 19 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |