Example sentences of "not unlike [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a dream-like , reversed world , not unlike a film negative . |
| 2 | The year follows a cycle not unlike a Gardener 's Calendar . |
| 3 | As they reached the level of the deck a wall of green water lifted with a monstrous boom at the bow then broke into huge white columns of water , not unlike a Niagara Fall that carried majestically the length of Titron . |
| 4 | Upper and North Halling were served by her sister Ella who drove a horse drawn milk float , not unlike a chariot of old . |
| 5 | To this extent the baby is comparable to the total imbecile ; or , if we include its sentience , limited locomotion , and prototypical behaviour , it is not unlike a cat or gibbon . |
| 6 | The first genuine American station , Mount Clare in Baltimore ( 1830 ) , was a small octagonal street-corner building not unlike a tollhouse . |
| 7 | ‘ Not unlike a journalist really , ’ Nick observed drily . |
| 8 | The prototype of this idea was not unlike a tower crane . |
| 9 | An example is Hieracium ( Hawkweeds — yellow composites with flowers not unlike a dandelion 's ) ; the number of named ‘ species ’ in Britain runs into hundreds , but no two authorities agree on how many there should be . |
| 10 | Appropriately enough Di Leonardo 's first gesture , a hand raised to still the clamour , looked not unlike a blessing . |
| 11 | The spores of these plants develop into a thin filmy plant called the thallus which looks not unlike a liverwort and releases its sex cells from its underside where there is permanent moisture . |
| 12 | In their dinner jackets , glasses of brandy in their hands , they appeared not unlike an uncle and his nephew in their London club — not much to say to each other , but quite content . |
| 13 | A Commando was therefore not unlike an infantry battalion but had only five small rifle or fighting Troops by comparison with the battalion 's four companies , each with over 120 all ranks . |
| 14 | It is suggested that this was intended to represent a Roman cavalry standard-bearer , as the insignia is not unlike an imago , similar to that held by Flavinus of the Ala Petriana , found near Corbridge and now in Hexham Abbey . |
| 15 | Actually , it 's not unlike an Precision bass pickup , only encapsulated as one unit . |
| 16 | A floppy disk is not unlike an LP record . |
| 17 | In the changed circumstances the sale of the property was understandable , but its loss , not unlike the sinking of a flag ship , was nevertheless a blow . |
| 18 | Humankind , to summarise , has been moving shoddywards since about 480 BC , when Confucius , Buddha , the Second Isaiah and Pythagoras died : to be succeeded , sages of wisdom and toleration that they were , by a return to superstition not unlike the reactions that tragically followed the Enlightenment or Victorian rationalism . |
| 19 | The man who kicks his car because it refuses to start ( and he has not checked the petrol gauge ) is not unlike the toddler who kicks the table for walking into him . |
| 20 | Joseph Butler 's ideas were seen in particular as a challenge to Wesley 's ( not unlike the way in which the present Bishop of Durham is seen as a challenge to contemporary evangelical ways of thinking ) . |
| 21 | Wollaton is the most extraordinary of his houses , but it suffers from an over-abundance of motifs not unlike the over-abundance which mars much Elizabethan literature . |
| 22 | The inside of each binding is a compacted mass of yellowed fatty tissue in which whorls and furling can be seen , looking not unlike the surface of the cerebral cortex . |
| 23 | Evidently the present is in some respects not unlike the past . |
| 24 | In Young 's time most of the cattle in Norfolk were in fact Scottish by origin , brought from their native regions to fatten in East Anglia , but the Norfolk Red was an old local middle-horned breed not unlike the Devon in colour and horn growth , and described as ‘ as loose and ill-made as bad Suffolks ’ . |
| 25 | In the United States , although a social survey movement not unlike the tradition of Booth , Rowntree and , later , Bowley , was prominent in the early years of the twentieth century , different political traditions , among other things , gave rise to a different use of social surveys . |
| 26 | It was not unlike the tone of the engine ; a rumble from the boiler of the beast . |
| 27 | A female monster of Greco-Roman mythology , not unlike the GORGON or the Scottish GLAISTIG fairy in her gruesome habits . |
| 28 | Both guitars share Mr. Donahue 's preferred neck profile , medium-deep and noticeably ‘ V ’ shaped , not unlike the ones Fender were turning out in late ‘ 56 and ‘ 57 . |
| 29 | The parents and four children — three boys and a girl — lived in an air of smug bourgeois prosperity and Catholic pedagogy , not unlike the cameos of their more famous namesake , James Joyce , in the earlier chapters of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . |
| 30 | SIMON WILLIAMS enters their world , where style , glamour , sexiness and tack are kings , and hears a glorious noise not unlike The Smiths beamed back to 1973 . |