Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] like a " 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 | Nearby , the siren of an ambulance cries like a mad baby , its pitch rising as it passes us and heads on down the street . |
| 8 | A muffin tin looks like a large , deep bun tray . |
| 9 | At first sight , the statute looks like a piece of blatant , novel and radical anticlericalism , but on closer inspection another view emerges . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By now the rock looks like a butcher 's shop , bloody with tattered flesh and strewn limbs , and the woman like a butchered carcass . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The end result looks like a cross between a Fender and a Yamaha Pacifica , with a touch of Ibanez around the body . |
| 14 | The monitor looks like a AUVA unit but is branded APC , Atomstyle 's own brand . |
| 15 | We find it odd , even offensive , if a boat looks like a teapot and at best quaint when a teapot looks like a boat . |
| 16 | To some independent insurance-watchers the deal looks like a way to stifle competition . |
| 17 | You get one video and what at first glance looks like a child 's painting book . |
| 18 | The mosaic of the cut looks like a great distribution of attractive holes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Its croak sounds like a smoker 's cough . |
| 21 | No , I think tape , tape sounds like a good idea . |
| 22 | Now its painted side was crumbling , falling away in patches that left irregular silver stains like a weird mould growing within the glass . |
| 23 | In the Calanna Valley , 4,000 feet up , the lava billows like a black and angry ocean . |
| 24 | Most of Let Us Face the Future reads like a prospective history of the immediate post-war period . |
| 25 | To leave the smoking club feels like a desertion . |
| 26 | The neck feels like a cross between a Jazz and Precision . |
| 27 | Their approach is informal and Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology reads like a scientific detective story . |
| 28 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 29 | In equatorial areas the sun drops like a lead brick into the sea , light to dark taking only minutes . |
| 30 | The market hall looks like a trade marquee . |