Example sentences of "[indef pn] like the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 5 | Traditionalists may huff and puff and say there is nothing like the real thing ; aesthetes may deplore the destruction of mystery ; but for most of us it proves as enthralling as exploring a maze . |
| 6 | Were nothing like the real thing |
| 7 | But the school dinner she was wolfing down was nothing like the standard favourite of baked beans , burgers and ice-cream . |
| 8 | It was warm and smooth on Sarah 's tongue , nothing like the terrible gin Maggie had given her which she never wanted to taste again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well , they were n't actually outrageous , Tod 's flares , nothing like the twin-ballgown effect we would soon start seeing on the street . |
| 11 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 12 | There 's nothing like the soft texture and colour of old fabrics : learn to use and take care of them . ’ |
| 13 | Ach , there 's nothing like the primitive life , is there ? ’ |
| 14 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 15 | Even its light is tired , a pale yellowy-orange , nothing like the vibrant light of the south where the tireless sun goes high and stays high . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It may therefore be that while a perfectly competitive market composed of producers big enough to benefit fully from economies of scale would be the ideal , something like the existing state of affairs , particularly against a background of merger control and regulation of anti-competitive practices , is the best realisable outcome . |
| 18 | It is not at all clear , however , whether the addition of the marginal note in the one , and its incorporation in the other , was prompted by new , and supposedly better , information or rather arose simply through a temporary confusion between father and son ( occasioned , perhaps , by something like the confusing apposition of " Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " in the Turan entry corresponding to 840 ) which was then , possibly , perpetuated through inadvertence . |
| 19 | The US Government is reliably said to have invested large sums from its military budget on research in which impulses from computers ( which might give you something like the binary number level of the program ) were detected at a distance and the task was to see whether the highest level of program ( expressing what the real purpose of the program was ) could be reliably inferred . |
| 20 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Something like the planned fleet of 20 B-2 Stealth machines may be enough , particularly if they are equipped with accurate conventional weapons . |
| 23 | By the time our forbears were established tree-dwellers , the cerebral hemispheres had almost lost their original association with smell , and with the great expansion of the parts devoted to vision , hearing , touch and movement , you have something like the modern primate brain . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In that case we should be back in something like the unsatisfactory position we were in before the introduction of comprehensive schools , when the least successful children were relegated to schools that were openly admitted to be inferior ; and it is likely that the ‘ good ’ schools would , many of them , choose to free themselves from their Local Authorities . |
| 26 | In an attempt to find a model of the universe in which many different initial configurations could have evolved to something like the present universe , a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Alan Guth , suggested that the early universe might have gone through a period of very rapid expansion . |
| 27 | Nor , again , would local authorities be prevented from continuing to build at something like the present rate — though ( as will presently be shown ) for different purposes . |
| 28 | Not everyone can attempt reform on this scale , but established houses can also bridge the gap by showing themselves , like others , to be human , transforming their ceremony where ‘ everything is as stiff , formal , and tedious , as if your host were a Spanish grandee in the days of the Inquisition 's — Chesney Wold , in effect — into something like the easy welcome of a middle-class home . |
| 29 | The particular principles adopted relate to attitudes and stated priorities , so there are schools where something like the Danish approach is used , and other schools where committees have been formed to set out the principles of a formal system comparable to SEE or SE . |
| 30 | It is thus something like the universal yellow which pervades a yellow object without requiring any particular arrangement of individual parts . |