Example sentences of "[conj] more like [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Johnny 's wallet lay next to the stud box , and feeling more and more like a sneak-thief , she opened it and looked inside .
2 It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana .
3 ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’
4 In 1844 Youatt described two types of Sussex : one closer to the Devon stock , being smaller , light and agile , the other larger and more like a Hereford except that its coat colour was whole .
5 Maisie had told him he was ‘ getting more and more like a spaceman ’ .
6 The council tax is looking more and more like a repeat of the ghastly poll tax . ’
7 Sussex , some long-haired , denim-clad veteran of the sixties complained , was looking more and more like a housing estate for first-time buyers .
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 It is difficult to resist the conclusion that it is Parliament , not the law , which is in danger of looking more and more like an ass .
13 And the après ski is less like a Martini commercial and more like an episode of Colditz .
14 She looked so different in the blue dress ; still fat , but more like a schoolgirl might do , and she seemed as light on her feet as a dancer .
15 Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? "
16 She liked wearing the cap ; it made her feel different , as did the long grey coat that went down to the top of her boots , because then she did not feel like Millie Forester , whose mother and father were dead and had no-one belonging to her , except the fat woman and the man with short legs , but more like a princess who , every now and again , donned strange clothes and went out among the common people , and was kind to them , and yet always remained a princess under the disguise .
17 I was here once , he thought , stirred by a recollection that was not at all like an ordinary memory but more like a flash of déjà vu about some great happiness known before he was born .
18 Although he has always given strong leadership , Jan Hoet has not acted by divine right but more like a president , encouraging an on-going debate between the exhibition 's four curators .
19 It was like the search for the Holy Grail , but more like the Monty Python film version .
20 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 .
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