Example sentences of "like [art] [adj] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH saviours like the European Community 's bureaucrats , the electronics industry of Europe hardly needs enemies . |
| 2 | He turned his back on the little girls , the poor one looking so much like the rich man 's child , as they disappeared into the house to eat their rice together . |
| 3 | The choice by the Queen of Lord Home in 1963 was of some importance since the circumstances in which it took place illustrated the difficulties of the process and led fairly quickly to the adoption by the Conservative Party of a leadership election process that was designed ( like the Labour Party 's leadership election ) to make the choice of a Prime Ministerial successor a constitutional formality . |
| 4 | When we mean never we say tomorrow morning — it 's like the Spanish saying mañana . |
| 5 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 6 | Their view of Karma as a life-giving force that flows from life to life is in every way like the modern physicist 's view of electrons ( electricity ) which they say is not ‘ matter ’ but a ‘ force ’ . |
| 7 | oh like the Jacobean style er the er |
| 8 | A lot of people may like you , but it can be more useful to know a smaller , selective number — like the managing director 's secretary , for instance , who 's been with the company twenty-five years , and who loves to chat and fill you in on the history . |
| 9 | Few , including me , would have thought the third rate guitar outfit of old capable of such divine inspiration but ‘ Screamadelica ’ sounds suspiciously like the baggy generation 's answer to ‘ Sgt. Pepper ’ . |
| 10 | And of course committing the murder is an act of perverse self-assertion , like the underground man 's notional sticking his tongue out — with the difference that the anti-hero 's mind movement breaks no bones , and hurts no feelings except his own . |
| 11 | The first is given , like the British elector 's only vote , to the preferred candidate in a constituency . |
| 12 | The writer of an admirable article on research in the humanities published in the TLS in 1987 wrote , ‘ I believe passionately in the value of those activities we call ‘ the Humanities ' ’ , yet when I see a compilation like the British Library 's Current Research in Britain ( 1986 ) : The Humanities … |
| 13 | Er and then to contrast this you 've got like the feminist view er well it 's a just reconstruct a lot of these ideas instead of saying that women 's talk was diffident they said it was more considerate , and so the idea that quite often A lot of the features that are in this conversation are n't because women want to be deferential to the men they 're talking to , it 's that they actually want to show some consideration to the turn-taking or the conversational style that 's going on . |
| 14 | Expression was low or absent in cell lines of more primitive phenotype like the promyelocytic line HL60 and those with erythroid features such as the erythroleukaemic line K562 . |
| 15 | Many factors which socialization theories predict will affect sex roles , like the same-sex parent 's masculinity and femininity scores , parental expectations about a child 's masculinity and femininity , warmth of relationship between parents and child , presence of same-sex parent , and , for boys , father absence , have contradictory or insignificant effects . |
| 16 | Like the previous week 's Bescot Open Day held on Sunday , August 30 , an excellent display of BR locomotives and preserved examples are also planned . |
| 17 | Among the cases in which the options are not stacked like this , is that in which the sanctions and disapproval exist against behaviour which is in fact frequent and not the subject , perhaps , of any deep personal disinclination ; this , at the limit , is pure humbug , like the old school-master 's attitude to masturbation . |
| 18 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 19 | And the place is used a lot erm like the local Trade 's Council meet here , and I make sure that I open up for them . |
| 20 | A face , as Elinor was often telling him , like a deviant grocer 's . |
| 21 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 22 | She was lolling in bed , her mouth wet and slack like a gormless child 's . |
| 23 | It was taking all the pleasure out of things and Maggie 's lips drooped like a disappointed girl 's . |
| 24 | Seven of the eight are well known Black communities and the sites read like a civil servant 's check list of those places where the state expected an uprising ( excluding those with Inner City Partnerships already present ) , yet no race specific dimension was added to their brief . |
| 25 | The man 's hair was long and stringy and his eyes blazed like a charismatic actor 's . |
| 26 | He pulled off his jacket in a hurry and left one sleeve turned inside out , like a small boy 's jersey . |
| 27 | His chamber is decorated almost wholly in black and midnight blue , and an 8-yard diameter circle around the Oracle 's throne is covered in thick , slimy strands which look like a gooey spider 's web . |
| 28 | His lips were drawn back in a snarl of pain , his skinny white limbs were like a frozen chicken 's . |
| 29 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 30 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |