Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] like the [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 Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick .
4 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 .
5 Is this independent , single parent who does n't stand for any of Barry Brant 's messin' anything like the real Hilary ?
6 If it did n't , it would n't achieve anything like the stupendous accuracy that I have described .
7 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 .
8 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 ! ’
9 Then you see that waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue which operations researchers are so fond of modelling .
10 ‘ Waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue ’ .
11 As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had .
12 The films used in this study were , however , relatively short and it was clear that subjects were not describing anything like the total amount of information that was available .
13 Neither did the very many railwaymen who were concerned with passengers , nor , since the canal companies did not usually operate as carriers , did they employ anything like the same number of men in handling freight .
14 To say more precisely whether these cuts produced something like the optimal solution to the level of investment ( though with the inconvenience of power cuts at the peak ) , is problematic in an economy which ( even in the 1950s ) was subject to considerable disequilibrium in prices and inherited production patterns .
15 You can make one like the British O' level that passes only 20% of 16 year-olds .
16 On the simple computer described above we would have to do something like the following :
17 In that case , if this Thursday ge get anything like the other Thursdays we 've got enough to last .
18 THE REST The return to low-budget film-making by the director of Halloween , John Carpenter , fails to generate anything like the same tension .
19 We need to adopt something like the German distinction between Wissenschaft — that is , knowledge or scholarship , which may cover all subjects including chemistry , history , literature , or physics — and Technik — the ability to make and use things , whether machine-tools , architectural drawings , or stage-scenery .
20 Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead .
21 First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat .
22 I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well .
23 Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted .
24 However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description .
25 We might propose something like the following for English : then and now for past and present ; be and have for continuous and perfective :
26 Although the depopulation of the Western Isles has resulted at least partly from such malign human interventions as the clearances , it is doubtful if they could support anything like the past numbers at levels of living acceptable by present-day standards .
27 But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning .
28 ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim .
29 But the record since 1945 suggests that it is highly improbable that the British people will play anything like the major role in the affairs of mankind in the twenty-first century that they have done so frequently , if often unavailingly , in the course of the twentieth .
30 Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays .
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