Example sentences of "which [verb] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , standing on a beer barrel , a member of the ward watch rang a hand bell which tolled like a death knell through the noisy clamour of the place . |
| 2 | Next day , Dot was made to lie on a high hard bed in a glittery room without windows and they pressed a black rubber bowl over her face which smelled like the inside of her gas-mask . |
| 3 | In a nylon jersey house-gown of peacock pattern and iridescent colouring , which clung like a silk glove , she could not possibly be anyone but Mrs Paviour , that same Lesley who walked when the fit took her , last thing at night , and had been home twenty minutes when Charlotte rang the door-bell . |
| 4 | Dingy façades which crumbled like a cliff , |
| 5 | Around the corner , the small office which looks like a hole in the wall of a shady bookie and turns out to be something of an art gallery , is again amiably in flow . |
| 6 | it 's meant to be a bonsai tree which looks like a tree but it 's only very small like that high . |
| 7 | Between ( e ) and ( g ) there is a range of behaviour not fully illustrated by a still picture such as ( f ) , which looks like a superposition of ( e ) and ( g ) : if one watches the oscilloscope one sees the picture alternating randomly between the chaotic pattern and the ordered one . |
| 8 | We all know how to use pens — we were taught how to use a pen in primary school — but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but it 's reading something which does n't look like letter of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 9 | We all know how to use pens , we were taught how to use pen in primary school , but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but is reading something which does n't look like letters of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 10 | The extreme heteromorphs are perhaps to be found in the genus Nipponites , which looks like a tangle of whorls where any obvious semblance of symmetrical coiling seems to have been lost ( see left ) , and Baculites which is virtually straight after its earliest whorls . |
| 11 | Operating in a bleeding French market , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has a rapidly vanishing mainframe base , personal computer problems that only seem to have been exacerbated by the acquisition of Zenith Data Systems , which looks like a source of profitless volume , and a Unix strategy that is only just getting off the ground . |
| 12 | As a result of this , certain big Renoir prints are expensive — over £20,000 for the kind of lithograph which looks like a chalk drawing . |
| 13 | Plus a large , unsightly wall which looks like the inside of a barn . |
| 14 | The southern Pennines offer the shapely cone of Lose Hill ( 476m ) and the sharp poke of Win Hill ( 462m ) : two elegant sentinels that overlook the entrance to the Edale Valley : while at the northern end of the Pennines is Pen-y-ghent ( 694m ) which looks like the prow of a great ship when seem from Ribblesdale . |
| 15 | At six in the morning I hear the children laughing , hear the radio , then the scrunching as they rake and stamp through hail which lies like a covering of snow on the shadowed courtyard . |
| 16 | In 1964 the House of Lords in Rookes v. Barnard delivered a judgment which seemed like a return to the early heady days of the century . |
| 17 | I do n't feel that churning , dread longing any more which seemed like a curse from an irrational and limitless supply of malevolence . |
| 18 | He blew a bubble which exploded like a fart . |
| 19 | Once clear of the Waste and the Tower which burned like a signal beacon behind them they stopped to rest and take stock of their situation . |
| 20 | There was just a touch of sarcasm in her voice , which cut like a razor , and she knew she 'd drawn blood when he stared coldly back at her , the smile fading from his face . |
| 21 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 22 | He gave them a bright smile , which faded like a sunset . |
| 23 | Dellinger Web A fabric web imbedded into the midsole , which acts like a trampoline . |
| 24 | As these change with depth , at about 1500 metres , these factors combine to form a channel of water which acts like a voice tube . |
| 25 | This is set in the hillside below the actual Dentelles — a line of rock blades which run like a dragon 's spine along the top of the hill above the wine village of Gigondas , near Carpentras . |
| 26 | He strode into the jungle of branching lines and stopped next to a sphere which opened like a flower as he leant over . |
| 27 | The girls were at school , and no misery that Nenna had ever felt could weigh against their happiness which flowed like the current , with its separate eddies , of the strong river beneath them . |
| 28 | St'lyan had an organ which acted like a supercharger , so that they were capable of long periods of exertion , and like the Yek they were able to endure remarkable extremes of heat and cold . |
| 29 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 30 | His lips were sewn shut with the thong of a thin black leathery whip , the tied ends of which drooped like a moustache . |