Example sentences of "[pers pn] reads like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reads like Masefield on a very bad day ; and one uses the word ‘ reads ’ with caution , since few people in recent times , except Lewis enthusiasts anxious to have read their way through the entire canon , can ever have bothered to press on with Dymer . |
| 2 | This was in the mid 1560s , when Mary was still in power , so that it reads like Knox 's wishful thinking rather than anything else ; and it was then recast into the famous phrase by the Protestant chronicler Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , writing in the 1570s , by which time the representative of the house of Stewart was the child James VI , and the lass had long gone — into English captivity . |
| 3 | It reads like a medical dictionary : fractures , viral infections , flu , fainting , blisters , food poisoning , sprained ankles and ligaments , exposure , sun stroke , heat stroke , dehydration and 50 different types of allergies . |
| 4 | ‘ It reads like that . ’ |
| 5 | It reads like a government White Paper , and contains just about as few laughs , examining the decline , identifying causes , allocating blame . |
| 6 | It reads like a comic , |
| 7 | It reads like a confirmation present specially written by a malicious , rakehell uncle for a serious-minded adolescent with ambitions to get on in society . |
| 8 | In a sense , this is typical first-novel fare , and it reads like a first novel , with its attendant flaws — the heavy imbalances and visible seams . |
| 9 | It reads like a device . |