Example sentences of "might [verb] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one level this meant that the exiguous legal structure of this relationship afforded much social power to the landowner , whose ability to terminate the tenancy at pleasure might hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of his tenant farmers . |
| 2 | On the other hand the Kingdom might appear like a blaze of lights from a city located on high ground which can be seen from miles around ( Matt. |
| 3 | Delia Sutherland remained where she was , examining something unfamiliar in her spirit , something that under X-ray might show like a patch on a lung . |
| 4 | And this is important because a man might look very well from one side but he might look like a cheese from another , and that would be a distraction . |
| 5 | MARTY ROEBUCK might look like a man who would n't say ‘ boo ’ to a goose , but his slight frame hides a huge heart . |
| 6 | Equinox in Leicester Square might look like a cross between the Hippodrome and Liverpool St station , but it will be transformed into Britain 's biggest fancy dress ball for Kinky Gerlinky on September 28 when the theme is ‘ Sleaze ’ . |
| 7 | FOR THOSE who are n't aware , Jack Dee is the stand-up comedian who might look like a vampire masquerading as a stockbroker but whose singular style of delivery — deadpan sneers , disbelieving snorts of mirthless laughter , and , most refreshingly of all , blatant contempt for 99 per cent of the human race — is not only a timely call for the return of misanthropy to comedy it 's also brilliantly funny . |
| 8 | They shepherded their charges with a cheerful , maternal competence as if to reassure them that the place might look like a prison but was as gently beneficent as a nursing home and that they were only there for their own good . |
| 9 | This might sound like a lot of work but , believe me , it is well worth the effort . |
| 10 | He does this gravely , perhaps fearing — with some justification from what I can see — that the whole thing might collapse like a car in a Laurel and Hardy movie , falling absolutely fiat on to the ground in its component parts . |
| 11 | Well one thousand seven hundred and fifty might seem like a lot of money , but there actually is quite a lot of work in dealing with an estate . |