Example sentences of "[was/were] more like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she was more like a bloke |
| 2 | the girls ' bedrooms which was more like a boxroom than a bedroom before |
| 3 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 4 | It was the American equivalent to the Bren gun only it , it was more like a rifle , it had n't got a stand , you know , more like a rifle butt , you know . |
| 5 | He was , he was more like a pantomime character , how , character you 'd see on the stage |
| 6 | Well that was that was more like a meal were n't it ? |
| 7 | I think the atmosphere is certainly lost and the environment is different today without the patients , and their attitude was that this was more like a family than a hospital ward and they were treated as family . |
| 8 | Was more like a drop and come out your hand . |