Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not made of matter — like the surface the beetles were on — but that 's not to say it 's nothing . ’ |
| 2 | Mark Benson won the toss for Kent and , as is customary these days , put Hampshire in But 11 o'clock on a July morning is very different from 10.30am in September and , while it was cloudy , there was nothing like the assistance the bowlers will expect to find at the start of the NatWest Trophy final later in the year . |
| 3 | Although they were filter-feeders like the graptolites the bryozoans have not taken to free-floating planktonic existence — they are characteristic benthic organisms . |
| 4 | In many ways the yacht suited him well enough , but there were a few details that niggled — like the way a lump of green water lifting onto the weather side deck and running aft almost invariably hit the rail at the corner of the transom and slopped over the coaming to soak his trousers . |
| 5 | It 's more like the way the triplet figure sounds . |
| 6 | Their word Houyhnhnm means a horse , and the word itself sounds very like the noise a horse makes . |
| 7 | According to Rosenblatt 's theory , the poem is like the noise the crash makes , and if there was no one to hear the crash — no ear drums for the waves to bang against — there can have been no noise . |
| 8 | Of Shakespeare he says , ‘ Being a great poet the lines just tumbled out of him , and , like the whore an artist sometimes is , he distributes his favours to undeserving characters . |
| 9 | Keegan is demanding nothing like the £4,000 a week figure that has been bandied about . |
| 10 | ‘ in situations like the present the defendants ‘ are ’ the company in the sense that any offences committed by them in relation to the affairs of the company would be capable of being treated as offences committed by the company itself . |
| 11 | They have a very similar pattern of elements — the humerus is like the femur the fingers are similar to the toes — but the detailed form is clearly very different . |
| 12 | things like the magazines the colour supplements and things like that |
| 13 | I especially liked the Sci-Fi Drive-In Diner at MGM : a 250-seater restaurant where each ‘ table ’ is in a 1950s open-top car and the big-screen entertainment is provided by clips from black-and-white , B-movie classics like The Day The Earth Stood Still . |
| 14 | And the crowd noise is like the day the dinosaurs died ; on top of the din , amplified announcements in the nine principal languages of the otherworld page the missing , declare the starting times of special events , invite attendance at lectures and reveal the winners of prize draws and promotional lotteries . |
| 15 | ‘ It looks like the sack the girl was carrying , ’ said the Leader . |
| 16 | There is nothing like the thrill a week or two later of being able to get back into clothing that you thought had been discarded forever . |
| 17 | Then there was a heavy pause , like the moment a ball must feel between the time it 's thrown up and the time it starts to come down , and something picked up all three of them and slid them into a struggling heap . |
| 18 | It is probable that like the mammals the roots of the great variety of living birds are to be found in the Cretaceous , but fossils , which could document this , are only now slowly coming to light . |
| 19 | I think all signature models should carry a warning that the potential purchaser will not automatically sound like the player the guitar has been designed to serve . |
| 20 | Like the rates the tax would be based on the value of the property . |
| 21 | Like the Jews the Scots were a talented and creative people who had exported themselves all over the world ; there was hardly a country anywhere where a quorum of doctors , dentists , teachers , sailors , engineers , could not be assembled for a Burns Night supper or St Andrew 's Day dinner . |
| 22 | If our house had had a glass front like the neighbours the car would have gone straight through . |
| 23 | It 's like the sound a child makes when it confronts its own … |
| 24 | Her giggles became a scream , a short sharp shriek like the sound the hawk made . |
| 25 | She is not considering charging anything like the £7 a litre at which the health drink sells in Germany . |
| 26 | What is even more odd is that like the AV the STV is allowed to retain its original unitary value however often it is transferred and whatever its preferential status . |
| 27 | I mean young women , strong enough to breed like the cows every spring time and dig the fields in between — is n't that what they want in Australia , for all those men ? |
| 28 | What it said sounded very much like the words the woman had just used . |
| 29 | I 'm like a headmistress a lot of the time . |
| 30 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |