Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] like [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the new Protagon , the tennis racket which sounds like a drug but which plays like an old friend , the loyal doubles partner who helps you to cope with the important things in life , things like how to fox the club champion who usually knocks you off without ever getting out of auto pilot mode . |
| 2 | In August 1968 , the Conservatives established a Scottish Constitutional Committee , which behaved like a royal commission , under Sir Alec Douglas-Home . |
| 3 | The cervix is sealed off with a mucus plug which looks like a pinkish clot and its appearance is a good sign that there is some activity around the cervix . |
| 4 | A duvet cover which looks like a contemporary painting , plain bright curtains and the whole effect softened with swooping net drapes . |
| 5 | Some years ago a humbucker was designed for Gibson that has a base plate which looks like a printed circuit board . |
| 6 | He is wearing the mantle now , made from the skins of the hyrax , a flea-ridden animal which looks like a giant guinea pig . |
| 7 | New from J B Corrie is the Garden Buggy which looks like a conventional wheelbarrow but has a strong woven polypropylene fabric pan over a rust resistant chassis and easy to manoeuvre polypropylene wheels and pvc tyres . |
| 8 | This thing here , which looks like a wooden club , is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung , like a dance floor . |
| 9 | As you can see from the shots , the graphics are eggstremely good , eggcept for the main sprite which looks like an albino Pac-man having a crap . |
| 10 | I also tried the Graham Potentialiser , which looks like an expensive piece of Italian designer furniture . |
| 11 | However , two changes that have occurred in the power game have been the awakening of concentrated industrial or union power , which rested like a sleeping giant for nearly a century , and the emergence of consumer power . |
| 12 | People want imitation Bernard Dunstans and little feathery bits of painting which look like a painterly painting and are n't too upsetting or dramatic . |
| 13 | His chamber is decorated almost wholly in black and midnight blue , and an 8-yard diameter circle around the Oracle 's throne is covered in thick , slimy strands which look like a gooey spider 's web . |
| 14 | In this , the markings consist of a pattern of dark spots all of which look like the dark pupil of the fish 's eye . |
| 15 | This leaves a group of appointments which look like the deliberate insertion of royal supporters into important positions . |
| 16 | as tall as a palm tree and perfectly black [ with ] one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead . |
| 17 | Under Stephen and his successor , Djuradj Branković ( 1427–56 ) , Serbia enjoyed a ‘ silver age ’ , in which Serbian national culture displayed a vigour and intensity which seem like a brave defiance in the face of the overwhelming pressures from all sides which led in 1459 to the extinction of the Serbian state . |
| 18 | His voice , which sounds like a male version of Dietrich 's , trips over itself when he is trying to communicate one of his many enthusiasms . |
| 19 | As James Flynn says , this was " in most important respects a faithful return to the statute of 1835 " , which sounds like a dubious compliment until one remembers that Nicholas I 's supposedly restrictive statute on universities actually preserved most of the enlightened principles of the statute of 1804 . |
| 20 | In a move that was mandated by the Office of Telecommunications last summer , British Telecommunications Plc yesterday announced that it was cutting by £40 the cost of a new line for residential customers : from June 1 , it will cost £99 ; a new line for a single line business will also cost £99 , down from £152.75 ; residential customers will also now be able to spread the cost of phone service connection by paying an initial charge of £25 and four quarterly payments of £25 — which sounds like a great deal … |
| 21 | The Carvin has a panel of MIDI controls , which sounds like a hi-tech feature not in keeping with Carvin 's ‘ keep it simple ’ philosophy , but in actual fact the MIDI side of the deal is pretty rudimentary . |
| 22 | This found that 85 per cent of the babies in the trial , who were aged up to eight months , were soothed by the crackle of Egnell Ameda 's Babyshh , which sounds like an out-of-tune radio ( see Lulla-buys , our review of soothers in the January issue ) . |
| 23 | It was a great " WHUFF " which rushed like a mighty wind through passages and rooms , rang the windows and leaving an ominous silence in its wake . |
| 24 | Now Paris is a city which seethes like a hissing snake . |
| 25 | Somewhere , they told me in Nairn , is a hawthorn tree carbon-dated 1372 which I must find , because Boswell mentions it ; the ‘ hawthorn-tree , which rises like a wooden pillar through the rooms of the castle ; for , by a strange conceit , the walls have been built around it ’ . |
| 26 | Chief Supt Richard Stacey on surveillance at Broadwater Farm The curse of drug addiction , which hovers like a dark cloud over entire nations , is surely one of the most serious menaces to freedom in our time . |
| 27 | Never less than thoroughly fascinating , the production is dominated by Ian McKellen 's extraordinary Iago , a performance which feels like a shifting palimpsest of impersonations . |
| 28 | Suddenly stopping the drug may result in acute " withdrawal " effects such as delirium tremens for alcohol or " cold turkey " ( which feels like a bad bout of influenza ) for heroin . |
| 29 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 30 | One which looked like a ringed plover but with a brown tinge to its less contrasty plumage turned out to be greater sand plover , which breeds on the desert plains of Mongolia . |