Example sentences of "[is] not unlike the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who kicks his car because it refuses to start ( and he has not checked the petrol gauge ) is not unlike the toddler who kicks the table for walking into him . |
| 2 | ‘ This theoretically realistic and humorous novel is not unlike The Waste Land , the showpiece of Modernism and Impersonality ’ — which gives the impression that the realistic and humorous can only be deemed compatible with impersonality if they can also be deemed theoretical , and that the novel may not be very funny . |
| 3 | ‘ Ours is not unlike the job of a good barrister , ’ Peter Yeo observed , reaching a peroration . |
| 4 | This is not unlike the high-technology if , vestment profile except that it is generalised to situations where the expected risks of high technology are absent . |
| 5 | It is not unlike the feeling a good scientist gets when he senses he is within range of something interesting . |
| 6 | In fact this is not unlike the collapse of a span , " for a crack at one point concentrates the stress around that point accelerating the collapse . |