Example sentences of "not unlike the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Millennia ago the Sahara was a green rain-fed savanna , not unlike the plains of East Africa today . |
| 5 | There are those which are not unlike the polytechnics both because they offer a very high percentage of advanced work and also because they are almost as big . |