Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image of a body simply can not do justice , we are saying , to the reality of — and our complex emotional reaction to — overpowering physical realities like the sea or the night-sky ( however much we may be told that the stars are a twinkle in God 's eye ! ) . |
| 2 | Everybody has More or less has a paper It 's not like the Scotsman or the News , as regards numbers , but then you 've got all the local news and you got all the local advertisements . |
| 3 | He was like the vicar or the mayor , ’ says Italo . |
| 4 | And the assiduity with which Carolingian taxes like the fodrum or the pedagium were revived compensated in some measure . |
| 5 | Highbrow papers like the Guardian or the Telegraph were able to influence their readers at least as much as the tabloids on issues ( like unilateralism or the economy ) but not on voting choice . |
| 6 | The Mesquite main strip aspires to being Las Vegas without anything like the money or the reputation . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end I became like the chaplain or the lady who did the hair or the manicurist. patients would ask , ‘ has the artist done you yet ? ’ |
| 8 | It is also , simply because it is critical , a sort of potential morality — even an actual one — and no one can understand the Age of Criticism without gasping that , like the Crusades or the Reformation , its prime purpose was a far-reaching reform of the human spirit . |
| 9 | These linkages moreover could even strengthen the hand of the state against humiliating interference by the US-dominated international financial organisations like the IMF or the World Bank . |
| 10 | Those organisms who have more offspring pass on more of their genes to the future and those genes are increasingly represented in the future if some kind of natural factor , like the environment or the climate or other organisms determine who has the greater reproductive success . |
| 11 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |
| 12 | I have really bad nightmares of someone pursuing me , or a really big landslide coming down on me , and I race out of my bed and run , run far away and find something to defend myself with , like a candelabra or a bottle . |
| 13 | Let it be said here that Jackie is not one of the wild ones ; he was never , like a Villeneuve or a Depailler , a death-seeker ; his thrills did not come from risk , from playing Russian roulette with life , and unlike them , he had everything to live for . |
| 14 | But I can only retrieve her lips , those lightly ribbed , juicy lips , studded and patterned in close-up like a mulberry or a raspberry , their almost leathery texture if you were to brush them with your fingertips or tongue tip ( that snaky little organ equipped with ideas of its own ) . |
| 15 | Surrounded as we are by solutions of all kinds , each one supported by persuasive evidence of attested success , we can not but be tempted into the belief that somewhere among them there will be one which matches our particular teaching problem and which can therefore be slotted into our situation like a cassette or a computer programme . |
| 16 | The round tower looking uncommonly like a lighthouse or a telescope , contains relics of the hero of Trafalgar . |
| 17 | In this analysis Freud thinks he has shown how even organized groups like a church or an army are held together . |
| 18 | Second , four B , erm the proform substitution where a proform is like a pronoun or a proverb or if you fancy a pro-sentence erm sentence five Florence teased Dougal , and Brian did so too did so means teased Dougal the sentence for that is a proform . |
| 19 | There 's a conflict there and people get , well people like a drink or a smoke or whatever they do , they get off on whatever they do , but it 's just damn not as expensive as the habit I 've got , y'know … . |
| 20 | Here , as inmates with red-rimmed eyes and ash-grey faces barter items like a shirt or a spoon for half a bowl of soup , a nightmarish market economy is seen in operation . |
| 21 | ‘ If I hit a container like a folder or a disk while I am dragging , then the container makes its sound and the dragging sound stops . |
| 22 | He hardly comprehended what had been happening ; the reality and unreality merged together like a nightmare or a melodrama . |
| 23 | And something enveloped me , something that was all ready for my measurements , like a suit or a uniform , over and above what I wore , and lined with grief . |
| 24 | Jack felt it go , like a migraine or a bout of seasickness . |
| 25 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 26 | Like a foreigner or a man out of his social class , he [ the Rationalist ] is bewildered by a tradition and habit of behaviour of which he knows only the surface ; a butler or an observant house-maid has the advantage of him . |
| 27 | There was no form of words he could quote to define himself or his purpose , like a lodestar or a motto an ancient family would bear on its coat of arms . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'd be looking for something shaped like a truncheon or a torch , ’ said Pike . |
| 29 | Particularly striking is how far Absolon 's image is the product of nurture , not nature : his hair " " crul " " , " curled " , " " strouted " " , " made to stick out " , and with a " " shode " " , " parting " , which we read of him combing later on ( 3691 ) ; his shoes and clothing " " corven " " , " carved " and " " set " " ; not , like Alison , skipping like a kid or a calf , but tripping and dancing " " in twenty manere … after the scole of Oxenforde tho " " ( a wonderful image of the " school " ! ) . |
| 30 | Neither does the child learn to communicate like a chimpanzee or a canary . |