Example sentences of "[vb -s] [indef pn] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action begins in the Vatican papal apartments , where all the cardinals use mobile phones , the head of security is a Mafia hood from the Bronx , and Pope John Paul II ( Berwick Kaler , who looks nothing like the real pontiff ) is suffering from acute paranoia . |
| 2 | The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen . |
| 3 | Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys . |
| 4 | Wearing 175/60 Continental tyres , it has nothing like the grip of a 205 GTi , nor does it have the Peugeot 's steering feel . |
| 5 | Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick . |
| 6 | In Britain it is doubtful whether the personal accountability of an MP seeking reelection has anything like the importance attached to it by some theorists . |
| 7 | But that It takes something like the flu and that brings it out . |
| 8 | As we might expect , nationalism today reflects something like the crisis of the old Wilsonian-Leninist ideology and programme , which is due to its political failure and to the sharply diminished relevance of ‘ nation ’ and ‘ nation-state ’ to the political and economic structure of the globe . |
| 9 | ‘ It is easy to ridicule the ‘ that 's not cricket old boy ’ attitude , ’ remarked Wolfenden , ‘ but in its deeper ( and usually inarticulate ) significance it stili provides something like the foundations of an ethical standard which may not be highly intellectual but does have a considerable influence on the day-to-day behaviour of millions of people . ’ |