Example sentences of "something more like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that most sensible designers would think in terms of something more like a skate . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |