Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | New Zealand has the playing infrastructure but it has nothing like a big enough commercial base . |
| 4 | They do this by adopting something like a structuralist understanding of signification systems , treating them as changing structures of oppositions and differences , where obvious meanings are always shadowed by the meanings they exclude . |
| 5 | The medium of world commerce was often the sterling bill of exchange , which provided something like an international currency . |
| 6 | Although most customers want something like a conventional ferry , but faster , manufacturers have generally used materials and construction techniques from the aircraft industry . |
| 7 | You want something like a little erm , like a moose you know , a moose carton |
| 8 | Thoroughly wet wood has something like a third of the strength and stiffness of completely dry wood . |
| 9 | Many a Harvard dealer has needed to haggle with one of the market-makers in the adjoining room , in order to obtain something like a fair deal for his client . |
| 10 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 11 | Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick . |
| 12 | Moreover , it is far from clear that the LDDC has managed to obtain anything like the best financial deals in its negotiations with developers : land appears to have been sold at substantially less than might have been achieved , and as the freeholder the LDDC has retained little control of , nor gained any benefit from , subsequent development . |
| 13 | Is this independent , single parent who does n't stand for any of Barry Brant 's messin' anything like the real Hilary ? |
| 14 | Great advantage now is you would n't need anything like a high chair |
| 15 | Here , more than anywhere , in these moments of shared contemplation where the presence of death is so immediate and so visible , do you sense something like a collective consciousness being forged , a powerful combative resolve . |
| 16 | I can sense something like a vast , artificial intelligence . |
| 17 | [ See Fig. 3 ] Where once the smooth cone of Vesuvius had risen , only a shattered stump now remained ; where once there had been fields and vineyards and all the normal clutter of the countryside there now stretched a silent grey carpet of ash , mantling everything like a thick , dirty snowfall . |
| 18 | Every morning we woke to find ourselves surrounded by fresh tracks made by capybaras ( the world 's largest species of rodent , looking something like a giant guinea pig ) ; on our last evening , the boatman killed an alligator as it crawled past our camp-fire to go hunting in the reeds beyond . |
| 19 | As an ex-Catholic , ex-alcoholic , ex-hippie fifty-something from New Orleans , dressed in goth-style black and looking something like an old-fashioned schoolmistress , Anne Rice is not your typical American bestseller author . |
| 20 | If it did n't , it would n't achieve anything like the stupendous accuracy that I have described . |
| 21 | Also Bach 's Magnificat is clearly the work of a genius at white-heat , whilst Kuhnau 's score(s) , if lacking nothing in sheer inspiration , exhibit nothing like the extraordinary level of Bach 's individuality and imagination . |
| 22 | The analysis may appear to be unlike those which , to speak quickly and only of one central matter , describe something like a causal circumstance and an effect as two items which fall under a law , and then proceed to attempt to give an account of what a law is a true proposition of a certain character . |
| 23 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 24 | For practical purposes it is probably safe to assume something like a 50/50 split and this is probably putting inherited factors too high . |
| 25 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 26 | But I 'm sure it was much more important to pave over history and build this — this autostrada than to worry about preserving something like the Appian Way ! ’ |
| 27 | Variable wing geometry would cut the dangers down a little … but there are still CATs up there which could tear anything like a conventional aircraft apart . ’ |
| 28 | Then you see that waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue which operations researchers are so fond of modelling . |
| 29 | ‘ Waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue ’ . |
| 30 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |