Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PERFECT PORRIDGE This easy recipe is rather like a hot version of muesli but uses the best kind of oats , has wheatgerm as a bonus and indulgent toppings . |
| 2 | She is rather like a lyric author herself , a bit of a lyre . |
| 3 | It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote . |
| 4 | The fruit is rather like a small peach , but the hull dies off towards the end of the season . |
| 5 | Parsley needs far more root-room than it is usually given ; the main or tap root is rather like a small carrot , and this should be allowed for . |
| 6 | Two years later Julian Barnes , in Flaubert 's Parrot ( 1984 ) , entertained the same subversive point in a novel of impish erudition : the past , he suggests in his opening chapter , is rather like a greasy piglet , and anyone who tries to seize it is bound to look ridiculous . |
| 7 | Her life really was that of one of the anawim , the ‘ little ones ’ of God — and the distaste that many of us feel for her is rather like a similar distaste for Thérèse of Lisieux . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've often thought that each person is rather like a different vessel out at sea . |
| 9 | ‘ The frame is rather like a giant Mecanno set which you construct as you need to , ’ said Mr Montgomery . |
| 10 | ‘ The frame is rather like a giant Meccano set which you construct as you need to , ’ said Mr Montgomery . |
| 11 | Since the abalone is rather like a large snail in having a protruding ‘ foot ’ , it does not need to be opened in the same way as a mussel for the otter to eat it . |
| 12 | ‘ It is rather like a human Scud missile . ’ |
| 13 | But my guess is that the Festival is on to a real winner in the merchandising stakes , having seen bits of the logo featured in imaginative guises on clothing , stationary , mugs , and even Festival cheques . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is on to a weak point . |
| 15 | So any cream or potion which implies ( the advertising standards authority objects to claims that can not be proven ) that your skin will look more radiant and youthful is on to a good thing . |
| 16 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 17 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 18 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 19 | The search is on for a Conservative candidate to succeed the black barrister involved in a race row at the last general election . |
| 20 | But addiction to chemicals is clearly real , and there seems no reason to believe that compulsive chemical-taking is necessarily in a different class from other acquired compulsive habits . |
| 21 | ONE OF Britain 's most successful offshore construction yards is in with a good chance of winning a major order that could secure its future for a year . |
| 22 | If that can happen to one of the most prestigious shopping streets in the world , we can be sure that dispossessin' is in for a good run . |
| 23 | There are fears that Wall Street , which this week hit a peak , is in for a torrid time in the next few weeks . |
| 24 | INTERNATIONAL flanker Denis McBride is in for a busy 12 months following his confirmation as Malone skipper for a second consecutive season . |
| 25 | Summers was quoted in national newspapers as saying : ‘ If Sugar thinks we are a run of the mill first division club , he is in for a big shock . |
| 26 | In my experience , perfect compromises are unusual animals , and I fear that the hon. Gentleman is in for a disillusioning experience if the tax is ever brought into practice . |
| 27 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
| 28 | Geoff Wildinson , assistant director for filed work , recognises the SSD is in for a tough time . |
| 29 | The McBrides Fashions series is down to a two-horse points . |
| 30 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |