Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means , too , that these communities have been disproportionately affected by social security changes relating to families , like the change in the benefit position of 16- and 17-year-olds ( Oppenheim , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Like the Tin-Man in The Wizard of Oz , rigid under the apple trees , she needed oil . |
| 3 | the , the activists who then can go out I , like the disciples in a sense erm to , to the , to the new membership . |
| 4 | In so far as the anchoress is seeking Christ lost in the soul , she is like the disciples in the boat on the sea of Galilee lost in the storm ( Matthew 13:44 ) who woke the sleeping Jesus to save them from destruction : But underlying the cry of the anchoress is the constant calling of God which alone enables her cry : " oure lord and all whilk wilen herken to hym ( 50.323a. – 122 ) . |
| 5 | Allow about five folded pieces of blotting paper to one directory , spacing them equally so that the pages of the directory act like the newspaper in the press . |
| 6 | He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower . |
| 7 | However , like the Temple in the Book of Ezekiel , it was to be a vision only . |
| 8 | Frieda Lawrence said of her husband : ‘ I must say he is like the English in the bulldog quality of hanging on . |
| 9 | Like the ones in the church in the town . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean , like the ones in the cliff face , opposite the belvedere ? ’ |
| 11 | They had been in the shape of double diamonds exactly like the ones in the woodland ride ! |
| 12 | They were open stairs like the ones in the house his Mum and Dad were buying . |
| 13 | ‘ Stapleton had the idea of buying a huge hound , and of using the phosphorus to make it shine like the hound in the story . |
| 14 | It was not at all like the others in the room , like all the ones in the other room . |
| 15 | It 's a bit late to be coming on like the Angel in the House now . ’ |
| 16 | This is a galaxy , swirled like the cream in a cup of coffee , every pinpoint of light a star . |
| 17 | These three cylinders are composed of erectile tissue , which , like the clitoris in the female , has the ability to shut off its drainage of blood and become swollen , hard , and erect . |
| 18 | In his joy at being in love , all he saw was now sparkling like the illuminations in a missal . |
| 19 | These could , like the venture in the West Country , reclaim sediments washed out to sea from industrial works . |
| 20 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 21 | You know , so they obviously think it 's like the floor in the house you know . |
| 22 | These will then develop through the usual plant successions into areas of organic sediment rather like the backswamps in the interior of the delta . |
| 23 | On the other hand , error-correction pleases the record producers , because compact digital discs sold in the shops sound exactly like the master-tape in the studio . |
| 24 | All human individuals are on a par , but each is separate from every other like the matches in a match box . |
| 25 | All sounds , from thunder to music , are basically vibrations which travel through the air like the ripples in a pond , when a stone falls into the water . |
| 26 | But the water she 'd spoken through gurgled on , like the noise in a sea-shell . |
| 27 | Or maybe it was like the ball in a roulette wheel , bouncing around and looking for the right number … |
| 28 | Even when it was something bad , like the mice-damage in the apple room , or the wasps ' nest in the orchard , or even your husband jumping off a plane and dying , she managed to see the good part of it . |
| 29 | The fanatic voice of Revelation built up in her head like the air in a pressure chamber . |
| 30 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |