Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb base] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ditherers and mums-the-worders who 'd make even the fossilised Football Association Council look like a Brains Trust . |
| 2 | Eighteenth-century Bristol was an environmental disaster area with problems of atmospheric pollution that would make present-day Mexico City seem like a health resort . |
| 3 | And for the youngsters , the Old Swan makes the old village hall seem like a hangover . |
| 4 | In this world of clean fast-running water , of inimitable oaks and meadows which made the Bayeux tapestry look like a traycloth , there was no place for somersaulted cars and carnage and broken bodies lying on the wet and bloody tarmac . |
| 5 | This centre for the war wounded , holding up to 600 patients at a time , makes an NHS ward look like a palatial five-star hotel . |
| 6 | 25TH OF May are enough to make the most rabid Trot of a pop fan feel like an enemy of the people worthy of a vicious kneecapping , since their political stance is laudable to the n th degree in such grim times as these . |
| 7 | The civilization flourished for more than a millennium until , about 1400 BC , the comparatively nearby volcanic island of Thera erupted in a fashion that makes the 1883 Krakatoa event look like a mere squib . |
| 8 | A trip to North London in the middle of the week is hardly an inviting prospect but the Cube Club at the Bull And Gate in Kentish Town on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday nights has made the nearby tube station seem like a home from home for the discerning music lover . |
| 9 | A trip to North London in the middle of the week is hardly an inviting prospect but the Cube Club at the Bull And Gate in Kentish Town on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday nights has made the nearby tube station seem like a home from home for the discerning music lover . |
| 10 | Clapton is a graceful , authoritative performer , even sitting down , and his ten acoustic country-blues tunes made the 6,000 seat Royal Albert Hall seem like a club . |
| 11 | Rowbotham says the third years have made the Cherry Orchard look like a cotton-wool factory . " |
| 12 | How can I make a glass box look like a stream ? |
| 13 | What on earth can have induced Labour and Conservative politicians alike even to consider hitching their wagons to something which , at first sight , makes the poll tax look like a pre-election bonus ? |
| 14 | The years taken to prepare the poll tax look like a model of wise and thoughtful government by comparison with the pretence at consultation and the shockingly truncated parliamentary timetable with which we are now confronted . |
| 15 | FACTORY CIRCUS look like the result of a particularly sadistic fashion designer 's bad acid trip . |
| 16 | Rincewind relaxed slightly , which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly . |