Example sentences of "can [verb] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citizens ' Advice Bureaux can also put compulsive spenders in touch with debt counsellors , who are able to assess their clients ' finances and thus establish an escape from what can feel like a financial swamp . |
| 2 | Drama and make-believe play , unlike other second-order experiences , can look like a real event because of the concreteness of the medium . |
| 3 | The Conservatives want to demonstrate that the Prime Minister is a man of the people ; Labour , in contrast , that their man of the people can look like a Prime Minister . |
| 4 | The horse 's muscular control over its top lip is very precise , which is why the top lip can do so much and reveal so much : it can function like a thumbless hand , and sort and select preferred plants in the horse 's pasture , as well as reveal unrelated emotions with such dissimilar faces as those of anxiety and the Flehman posture . |
| 5 | On the back of the video cases are detailed typewritten performance descriptions that can read like a Chinese restaurant menu . |
| 6 | The attempt to be fair to all traditions , by being equally tolerant of all and non-judgemental , can lead like a slippery slope from well-intentioned neutrality to profound scepticism about religion . |
| 7 | It seems unfair , since Howards End proves that a man can write like a perfect lady , if a trifle bourgeoise . |
| 8 | On paper , it can seem like a neat solution for : |