Example sentences of "like [art] [adj] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the modern marriage the facility exists for a contract to be formed and so too steam can learn from that lesson . |
| 2 | Like the thought-stopping procedures the creation of pain as a means of distraction is only a short term means of interrupting intense , worrying thoughts which occur repeatedly . |
| 3 | Like the contracting filopods the contraction is due to the action of muscle-like microfilaments . |
| 4 | In some places like the Scottish library the subject and authors are listed in alphabetical system but places like the Edinburgh Room there is a class catalogue but all are easy to use and if there is any problems the library staff are always close at hand . |
| 5 | He pleaded , hardly sounding like the tough guy the public identified him with , ‘ Surely there must be some way for a person falsely accused of disloyalty to clear his name once and for all ? |
| 6 | Like the earlier incidents the raid was thought to have been motivated by a desire within the Papuan military to cut fuel supplies to the Bougainville rebels . |
| 7 | Like the exhaustive ballot the STV requires the successive exclusion of the candidates having the fewest votes . |
| 8 | Well , the next step is , we would very much like the public to let us know what they think of some of her ideas , like turning Cornmarket into northbound only , like the twenty mile an hour speed limit and some of her ideas for High Street . |
| 9 | Sadly that corner , like the proverbial corner the economy keeps bumping against , was not turned . |
| 10 | Karen took something from her handbag and slipped it into her mouth like a communicant self-administering the host . |
| 11 | A fine fool she 'd look if she allowed herself to be swept off her feet by more of those blood-stirring kisses , then found herself dropped like a burning coal the moment Doreen stepped through the door . |
| 12 | Like a wilting flower the half-span has gently sagged to the ground . |
| 13 | Mr Heseltine had evangelized Whitehall on behalf of his cause like a latter-day John the Baptist . |
| 14 | You 're lookin' more like a battered wife every day . ’ |
| 15 | Why do you panic like a silly girl every time something scares you ? |
| 16 | ‘ My dear young woman , ’ he drawled , ‘ must you shy away like a startled horse every time I get within yards of you ? |
| 17 | OK so people are grumbling at the moment about the players , some are doing well others are not , but having watch Deane miss goals and Hodge run around like a headless chicken every week is frustrating , but perhaps the media 's failure to provide good , unbiased coverage of Leeds results in people moaning to the mailing list . |
| 18 | Christ ! he thought , I 'm becoming more like an Irish peasant every day . |
| 19 | The 864 legislation mentions en passant in what sounds like an urban context the selling of bread and meat per denerarios : by pennyworths ( ninth-century hamburgers ? ) — which may imply more about normal price levels than Charlemagne 's decree in the famine year of 794 that a penny should buy 12 two-lb. wheaten loaves . |