Example sentences of "something [adj] like the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditions of their monarchy demanded something grander , or if not that something extraordinary like the saintliness of Louis IX . |
| 2 | By the time the echo reaches the bat again , the decay in its intensity is proportional , not to the distance of the fly from the bat , not even to the square of that distance , but to something more like the square of the square — the fourth power , of the distance . |
| 3 | One of the earliest collaborators was the conductor Leopold Stokowski , who happily agreed to experiments to divide the Philadelphia Orchestra into individually miked sections for increased clarity , presumably in search of something more like the clarity he perceived from the conductor 's rostrum ( 14 ) . |
| 4 | One picks up a suggestion of this position calcifying into something more like the outlook of a crusty old gentleman in a club in a letter he wrote in June 1938 to Barfield . |
| 5 | Giving him a name reassured them ; he was not some strange exotic phenomenon but something familiar like the title of a book . |