Example sentences of "not unlike the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Evidently the present is in some respects not unlike the past . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was not unlike the tone of the engine ; a rumble from the boiler of the beast . |
| 11 | A female monster of Greco-Roman mythology , not unlike the GORGON or the Scottish GLAISTIG fairy in her gruesome habits . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This is not unlike the high-technology if , vestment profile except that it is generalised to situations where the expected risks of high technology are absent . |
| 16 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 17 | Stand-offs on the forward cross spar provide positive if angular camber to form an aerofoil , but if used to force a batten into such a profile , the effect of further stand-offs from the rear cross-spars on the same batten is to form a gentle reflex , not unlike the wing section of a soaring bird . |
| 18 | Millennia ago the Sahara was a green rain-fed savanna , not unlike the plains of East Africa today . |
| 19 | The rays of geometrical optics are not unlike the particle trajectories of classical mechanics . |
| 20 | Not unlike the flight of the sycamore seed , the Rotachute was to be dropped from an aircraft , its folded rotors opening on release and autorotating during descent . |
| 21 | The visit of the Association was not unlike the coming of a circus : local intellectuals had an opportunity to mingle with the eminent who came in droves , cities competed in the lavishness of their entertainment , and in days before radio and television one could see and hear well known speakers addressing scientific audiences , or sometimes great crowds of working men . |
| 22 | But is it also realistic to assume that the West might tolerate it if Mr Gorbachev decided that the Romanian people , not unlike the people of Panama , deserve to enjoy democracy , and that the Soviet Union should send some of its military across the border to dispose of the Ceausescu family and their killer Securitas forces ? |
| 23 | Working with hydroquinone and other fairly simple soluble substances , I have grown long needle crystals or whiskers ( Chapter 4 ) which thicken by the growth of sleeve-like surface layers which are geometrically not unlike the growth layers in a tree . |
| 24 | It was not unlike the feeling she experienced when men looked at her and wanted her though she knew it could not be that for there was nothing sexual between her and Gary and never would be . |
| 25 | It is not unlike the feeling a good scientist gets when he senses he is within range of something interesting . |
| 26 | From time immemorial children have raised playthings , particularly dolls , to a place in their lives not unlike the place that ‘ gods ’ occupy in some aspects of the lives of adults . |
| 27 | If anything these somewhat stereotyped complaints sound not unlike the protest of agrarian society at the higher wages and extravagant consumption patterns of the industrial sector , at the dissolute habits of miners and the St Monday custom observed by many artificers . |
| 28 | In fact this is not unlike the collapse of a span , " for a crack at one point concentrates the stress around that point accelerating the collapse . |
| 29 | On smaller model this media is backed up with two ‘ Bio-Foam ’ blocks ( not unlike the foam sponges in internal filters ) wrapped around the outlet pipe . |
| 30 | Robinson said , deciding that talk about his farming , not unlike the farming itself , alas , would give him no advantage . |