Example sentences of "[adv] like [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat like a dolls ' house the building was formerly the Congregational Mission Hall opened in 1872 . |
| 2 | I 'm , I think , I think I 've got a different criticism which is that much of it is still too much like a newspaper erm that it 's , as I say , that the modular structure of the news pages is too relentlessly like , almost like , the Times of eighteen twelve , I mean too relentlessly little blocks that sort of sit there and although there 's Helvetica bold in the headlines , it 's , somehow the relationship and flow of stories in many ways does n't seem to have changed , it 's the presentation |
| 3 | The new Braun Oral-B Plaque Remover features important breakthroughs : Its round , oscillating brush head functions much like a dentist 's instrument . |
| 4 | And it looked very much like the Brazilian 's fault as he lost control of his Marlboro-McLaren-Honda and collided into the rear of the luckless Mansell 's Canon-Williams-Renault FW14B . |
| 5 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 6 | It was exactly like a children 's tea party , complete with squabbling and displays of temperament . |
| 7 | He portrays the boys ' innocence and environment exactly like the bible 's story of Adam and Eve as we see when Piggy interrupts Simon 's thoughtful speech . |
| 8 | If the usual cap is not put on , the following is made for a man : it is of flannel , cut exactly like an infant 's foundling cap . |
| 9 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 10 | No actually it was just , it was just like a question erm find X. That |
| 11 | Sandy Island , which you can just see on the horizon from the Beach Restaurant , looks just like a cartoonist 's typical desert island sketch . |
| 12 | To stop the board turning , just like a car 's steering wheel , you return the rig to a neutral middle position . |
| 13 | Just like a vaulter 's carbon fibre pole , FUSION conserves and then re-distributes energy — for stunning propulsion effect . |
| 14 | It looked just like a sailor 's hammock made out of toilet paper , cotton wool and string . |
| 15 | And then after I had my daughter I was going to go back in there but at the time it was just like a junior 's position , |
| 16 | Just like the customers ' busts . |
| 17 | After it has been sacrificed , the salamander 's tail wriggles about just like the lizard 's tail , but it has the additional advantage that it often contains poison glands which the killer finds pungently distasteful . |
| 18 | In this way , Gaussian , log-normal , sigmoidal , and sinewave data are treated just like the program 's other functions of X. Transformed equations , power-fit , exponential , hyperbolic , and others are also discussed in an appendix . |
| 19 | When Roderigo , ‘ this poor trash of Venice ’ , leaves , Iago tells us that his plan is still vague , but that he intends to bring Othello to the point where surface and reality are so inverted that he will ‘ thank ’ Iago for making him an ass , In the event , Iago succeeds in making Cassio drunk , proceeds to ‘ put ’ him into an ‘ action ’ that — just like the tribunes ' manipulation — degrades him yet ‘ approves my dream ’ ( II.iii.58ff. ) — his fantasy or plan of success . |
| 20 | It probably was n't bubbling and smoking away like a witch 's cauldron but I certainly remember it that way What was it ? |
| 21 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
| 22 | The fruit has a long pointed protrusion , rather like a bird 's beak , and that 's how it gets the geranium name , meaning ‘ crane ’ . |
| 23 | The lamb had a nice expression rather like a kitten 's . |
| 24 | In another there is in fact no seat as such , rather like a monk 's misericord , a chair that is not a chair ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 25 | He said later that the body was curiously broad , rather like a turtle 's . |
| 26 | A subtle gin , if a bit sweet on the nose , with an attractive , lemony edge rather like a Gordon 's . |
| 27 | Rather like a bank 's cash-dispensing machine , the launch-control computer will keep the missiles ' warheads switched off if somebody types in the wrong combination . |
| 28 | She recalled thinking how small his hands were : rather like a woman 's . |
| 29 | Its forelimbs have tiny claws on them which assist in grasping its mother 's hairs and it moves determinedly forward with a movement rather like a swimmer 's crawl , turning its head from one side to another with alternate strokes . |
| 30 | Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper 's . |