Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] like the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you approach production from school or university , your academic qualifications will be noticed and you will give yourself a push up the ladder if you gain more knowledge of your subject by attending a course in printing at your local polytechnic or somewhere like the London School of Printing . |
| 2 | These are flying lanes , arranged more or less like the lanes of a superhighway , each given a name and a number , all clearly designated on maps , and designed by the International Civil Aviation Organization 's Air Navigation Commission to allow civil aircraft to fly in relative safety when far from land . |
| 3 | Caroline said that the poem ‘ went up and down like the swing ’ . |
| 4 | For there really is something a little odd surrealist even in the idea of a folding-leaf Dining ( Bird ) Table , where the flaps are made to beat up and down like the wings of a bird . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't drink too much of that , ’ said my mother , unable to stop herself ; but it made me feel better , more like the early girl of Egypt and less like the starveling cat . |
| 6 | The second impact came , like the slamming of a huge underground steel door … and just like the sound that Cardiff remembered from the basement . |
| 7 | The sentence curled round in her head over and over like the whorls of her picture . |
| 8 | The pattern has become much more ‘ crunchy ’ and more like the surface of a waffle . |
| 9 | Virtual reality is currently virtually nothing like reality and more like the confusion you get if you 've drunk heavily on antibiotics , but Interactive Video is here and it works . |
| 10 | In terms of proportions of votes cast at elections , the Official Unionists have recently regained the advantage but they have done so by becoming more and more like the DUP . |
| 11 | They stared in fascination at the imperfect outline which did indeed look more and more like the print of a shoe the longer they gazed . |
| 12 | with a basket and there 's television , a stereo over there , and loads of videos on the shelves here and there like the road goes past , they was right close to the road just here was this big blanket and other side of the blanket there 's a Porsche and there 's a dog in th , in there |
| 13 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you never seem to be dashing off here , there and everywhere like the rest . |
| 15 | The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree . |
| 16 | Closer and closer like the end of the world . |
| 17 | But not like the ones at Mars-U , or in Spiderglass . |
| 18 | May be fussy and irritable but not like the tantrums of Chamomilla or the touchiness of Hepar . |
| 19 | But just like the City institutions , there comes the time of the irresistible profit . |
| 20 | It was like the search for the Holy Grail , but more like the Monty Python film version . |
| 21 | These vowel changes are brought about by rules — not the sort of rules that one might teach to language learners , but more like the instructions that one might build into a machine or write into a computer program . |
| 22 | But then like the father in Pearl an irrational joy comes over him , to be explained by the eagle-messenger in a song : |