Example sentences of "something [adj] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it was probably something odd like a bird 's head brooch found near the body , or the design on a rare coin in the victim 's pocket . |
| 2 | At around 4.30pm , Chris arrives home and after playing with the children lends a hand with the evening meal , which is something straightforward like a casserole or a pasta dish . |
| 3 | The BR spokesman said : It could have been something simple like a gate left open or something sinister like vandalism . ’ |
| 4 | The Marine tried to tell himself it was something simple like a mole , but then paused to wonder if they had moles in Haiti . |
| 5 | And then when you get to the er van proper you take things like a wardrobe and you put it edgewise on int th in against the side of the van , you 'd then put a wrapper over , and then you 'd put something soft like a mattress facing it , because obviously that 's a shiny side and if you can put something soft into it it 's not going to get scratched . |
| 6 | The traditions of their monarchy demanded something grander , or if not that something extraordinary like the saintliness of Louis IX . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not something dramatic like a soufflé , I hope ? ’ |
| 8 | Try to lock your bike to something immovable like a railing or lampost , preferably in a well-lit area with people around . |
| 9 | I suspect that most sensible designers would think in terms of something more like a skate . |
| 10 | Doug Gowan , of the TUC Education Department , argues that the courses are intended to develop skills and techniques rather than transmit abstract and academic knowledge ; the TUC has tried to dissuade tutors from thinking in terms of ‘ subjects ’ or ‘ disciplines ’ , and instead to shift towards ‘ student-centred educational methods ’ which shift away from classroom styles towards something more like a trade union meeting or office discussion : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But if I know her she is composing something more like an entry in a good encyclopaedia , or perhaps a chapter in her own book . |
| 15 | Her eyes widened , as though the reference to Eduardo was something physical like a blow , the fury quite gone out of her as she said , ‘ Why do you say that ? |
| 16 | Giving him a name reassured them ; he was not some strange exotic phenomenon but something familiar like the title of a book . |
| 17 | On other occasions , borrowing may be the only way you will ever be able to afford to buy something expensive like a house . |