Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They were a best-selling group without real fans , more like the Archies than the Sex Pistols , and they lost significance as rapidly as they gained it .
2 The atmosphere was more like the Budget than an announcement on social security .
3 During the trial , Jeffries seemed more like the prosecutor than the judge .
4 The man spoke , she thought , more like a don than a detective .
5 Although they embody a real-world claim about how agents are motivated , they function more like a paradigm than a generalization .
6 and you 'd have probably written them off when Leicester won a penalty … it looked more like a slip than a push but Thompson 's kick made it one-nil at half-time …
7 Experience seems to evolve from youth in a way not measured by the calendar : more like a river than a canal — which is what we knew but never saw so clearly as in these photographs .
8 Everything was spick and span , more like a hotel than a home .
9 the girls ' bedrooms which was more like a boxroom than a bedroom before
10 She always sounds more like a caller than the host .
11 He seemed big and rugged — more like a logger than a hotel executive at this moment .
12 There are few better exponents of the art of looking as though life is a complete grind than Graham Gooch , who invariably begins his day with a long-distance run , and Stewart is altogether more comfortable when the ship is being run more like a galley than the Skylark .
13 Not surprisingly she is said to have complained that Louis was more like a monk than a king .
14 It sounded more like a truce than the end of the conflict .
15 Mrs Browning , Ferdinando swore , was more like a man than a woman and an Italian man at that .
16 Neighbours , mm sounds more like a sheep than a horse , neighbours
17 Jangling her keys more like a jailer than an attendant , she went to gaze out of a narrow window at what could be seen of the prosperous modern city , returning to peer over my shoulder and sniff .
18 It was more like a betrothal than a marriage and they did not live together .
19 It sounded more like a courtesy than a threat , a valediction .
20 Luyt met Herbert , whom he remembered as more like a friend than a father to John .
21 Often the tutor became more like a friend than a teacher , and continued to keep contact with them even after their period of education together had finished .
22 ‘ Laura was more like a friend than an employer , she was so kind to me and did so many thoughtful things .
23 It sounded , even to her , more like a plea than a protest .
24 No Babes In Toyland perhaps , but all-in-all , more like a crèche than a tally of hits .
25 Sporting a royal blue shadow , open neck shirt and flecks of paint from a spot of humble home decorating , he looked more like a pauper than a prince .
26 ‘ Edward seems more like a prisoner than a king awaiting his coronation , ’ the prince told her .
27 It sounded , he thought , more like a challenge than an invitation .
28 I mean , it sounds more like a justification than a reason .
29 The son of a Jat farmer outside Delhi , by the age of thirteen she was already refusing to work in the fields , saying that she felt more like a woman than a man .
30 It is more like a palace than a village manor house .
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