Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mill was built in 1771 by Richard Arkwright ( q.v. ) , at a time when growing discontent among textile workers was emerging as a threat to machinery , and the austere — not to say grim — building looks like a fortress , though the original mill has been much altered and extended . |
| 2 | The building looks like a library or similar public building with its classical portico and columns with Ionic capitals . |
| 3 | Each additional storey may be given its own roof so that eventually the building looks like a Chinese pagoda . |
| 4 | Bandera looks like a set from a Hollywood western . |
| 5 | Your mum looks like a Ribena berry . |
| 6 | Little beechwood board looks like a butter pat , but it is for chopping garlic . |
| 7 | RANGER & LOEW 'S embossed stainless steel art deco cigarette case looks like the authentic article — but it 's even better because your king-size cigarettes will fit neatly in — which they would n't have done in an original case . |
| 8 | They found themselves sharing stages with other guitar bands like The June Brides , Big Flame , and Age of Chance ; outfits who were later viewed as part of a new scene with The Wedding Present . |
| 9 | Nearby , the siren of an ambulance cries like a mad baby , its pitch rising as it passes us and heads on down the street . |
| 10 | More interested in the style than the fashion , Huggy Bear are carrying on the feminist tradition of punk bands like The Slits and X-Ray Spex with all the musicality of Pete Duel & The Shit or Alien Sex Fiend . |
| 11 | A muffin tin looks like a large , deep bun tray . |
| 12 | At first sight , the statute looks like a piece of blatant , novel and radical anticlericalism , but on closer inspection another view emerges . |
| 13 | Beta , at a distance of 78 light-years , is of special note because it seems to be associated with material which could possibly indicate a planetary system , and has actually been photographed from the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile , though to the ordinary observer Beta looks like a normal white star . |
| 14 | The average Vadinamian looks like an over-sized larva , boneless and segmented . |
| 15 | By now the rock looks like a butcher 's shop , bloody with tattered flesh and strewn limbs , and the woman like a butchered carcass . |
| 16 | But this piece looks like a member of a family of rogue ‘ roaming ’ elements called transposons that can move in and out of genes and may provide fundamental insights into gene functions . |
| 17 | The end result looks like a cross between a Fender and a Yamaha Pacifica , with a touch of Ibanez around the body . |
| 18 | As the agenda for the Vienna conference is broadened and flattened , the immediate result looks like an acceptance of the lowest common denominator . |
| 19 | The repeated victory of the owner against intruders looks like an arbitrary convention , obeyed by both individuals , that the ‘ owner always wins ’ . |
| 20 | The monitor looks like a AUVA unit but is branded APC , Atomstyle 's own brand . |
| 21 | We find it odd , even offensive , if a boat looks like a teapot and at best quaint when a teapot looks like a boat . |
| 22 | Tuesday looks like an oasis in a desert of work and effort so make sure you plunge headlong into its refreshing and revitalising waters . |
| 23 | To some independent insurance-watchers the deal looks like a way to stifle competition . |
| 24 | A new era of austerity starts in April 1994 , and the next 12 months looks like an all-too-brief inter-regnum in which the economy is being given a chance to grow again before the tax blows begin to fall . |
| 25 | You get one video and what at first glance looks like a child 's painting book . |
| 26 | The mosaic of the cut looks like a great distribution of attractive holes . |
| 27 | Our next priority like er , Labour says like a the different degrees is er the primary schools er many of which as we all know that we 've been struggling and to cope with inadequate budgets . |
| 28 | The instrument acts like an amplifier to enable subtle mental or physical responses to be noticed . |
| 29 | Its croak sounds like a smoker 's cough . |
| 30 | When embedded in a lipid membrane , the IP 3 R responds like a conventional channel , displaying an increase in open frequency in response to InsP 3 ( refs 49 , 50 ) . |