Example sentences of "sounds [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though for years denounced as a cheap copy of Springsteen , Mellencamp sounds remarkably human on both his new CD , Whenever We Wanted , and in an astonishingly open interview with the American edition of Esquire magazine . |
| 2 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 3 | Charles Bruck is almost infallible in this repertory , and conducts the unidentified orchestra with delightful elegance and vivacity , well caught by a recording that sounds remarkably crisp for its age ( 1953/4 ) . |
| 4 | The official line on all this often sounds remarkably complacent . |
| 5 | This violent ritual of territorial supremacy , as described by Walter Besant in 1901 , sounds remarkably like the modern practice at football grounds of ‘ holding the End ’ : ‘ The boys gather together and hold the street ; if anyone ventures to pass through it they rush upon him , knock him down , and kick him savagely about the head ; they rob him as well … the boys regard holding the street with pride . ’ |
| 6 | One way-out youngster appeared in court following the Bank Holiday disturbances with his hair dressed in what sounds remarkably like the ‘ Mohican cut ’ which had a brief moment of popularity among more outlandish Teds in the 1950s and which has reappeared with the Punks . |
| 7 | However , this sounds remarkably like the money is not in fact additional at all . |
| 8 | This , I was just gon na say , this sounds remarkably like the origins of |
| 9 | That sounds remarkably like someone else . |
| 10 | To a Keynesian this explanation for general unemployment sounds perversely counterintuitive . |
| 11 | This sounds suspiciously like advertising . |
| 12 | It sounds suspiciously like getting everything without working for it . |
| 13 | It sounds suspiciously like a ‘ stop-go ’ recipe for the alternation of inflationary booms and resource-misallocating busts . |
| 14 | The reason the Democrats lost was that Stevenson lacked ‘ the presidential image ’ — which sounds suspiciously like saying he did n't become president because he did n't become president . |
| 15 | This sounds suspiciously like planning , one of those un-Thatcher evils . |
| 16 | But to describe their state as one of missing their mothers sounds suspiciously like hyperbole designed to wring illicit sympathy from the reader . |
| 17 | Few , including me , would have thought the third rate guitar outfit of old capable of such divine inspiration but ‘ Screamadelica ’ sounds suspiciously like the baggy generation 's answer to ‘ Sgt. Pepper ’ . |
| 18 | Sometimes the work sounds downright eerie . |
| 19 | There are accents of English ( for example Welsh accents ) in which the second syllable sounds most like the in the first syllable of ‘ easy ’ , and others ( for example Yorkshire accents ) in which it sounds more like the in the first syllable of ‘ busy ’ . |
| 20 | I 've learnt a lot of things — how to bath a baby , feed a baby , it sounds dead simple but when you get that baby in your hands you 're shaking . |
| 21 | It sounds altogether a very odd bird . |
| 22 | Another , more exotic , suggestion is Markus Wolf , the retired spy chief , if only because he sounds rather human and writes books . |
| 23 | If all this sounds rather mythic , it is because it is a myth . |
| 24 | It sounds rather pompous , I dare say , but I think it was the beginning of understanding without knowing . |
| 25 | ‘ It sounds rather like the Holy Trinity . ’ |
| 26 | Because behaviour modification is such a mouthful and sounds rather insidious various writers have tried to make it sound more acceptable by devising new names for it . |
| 27 | The objective sounds rather like fascism , and liberal Dr Asimov has had second thoughts . |
| 28 | In fact , it sounds rather like the tone of a flat-out , old Fender Champ — not the kind of thing they 'd like to hear down at your local C&W club ! |
| 29 | It sounds rather extravagant , but then my whole relationship with the organization could be called that . |
| 30 | The theory that talk is a mode of transport sounds rather strange . |