Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She surveyed the scene , feeling more than ever like Dante in the Inferno . |
| 2 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |
| 3 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 4 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |
| 5 | As the years passed , he was beginning to sound more and more like Matthew Arnold — although Arnold was never quite able to practise what he preached . |
| 6 | Well , the work of the Spirit in the believer is supremely to transform us from one degree of glory to another : that is to say , to make us more and more like Christ . |