Example sentences of "it [vb -s] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may look like a crumbling chocolate sundae but it tastes like the finest birthday cake you ever had , covered with cream and laced with rum . |
| 2 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
| 3 | It looks like the beaded beauty Tumbleweed and I met at Appleby . |
| 4 | ‘ Driver acceptance too has been very good and it looks like the misconception that diesels are dirty , slow and smelly is a thing of the past . ’ |
| 5 | Coal tar linings were banned from the 1970s onwards after advice from WRC but , said a TWA spokesman , someone would now have to foot the bill for replacing the old linings ‘ and it looks like the ratepayer ’ . |
| 6 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 7 | All in all , though , it looks like the year when a new generation will take over . |
| 8 | The injured limb swells up until it looks like the leg of an elephant . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks like the sack the girl was carrying , ’ said the Leader . |
| 10 | It looks like the Ireland of the 1850s after the great potato famines : there is no one about . |
| 11 | Jimmy Airlie , chief union negotiator at the company , said : ‘ It looks like the thin end of the wedge . ’ |
| 12 | To my eyes it looks like the pattern , though I know with my head that it 's the background . |
| 13 | What with all the forms to fill out and papers to file , it looks like the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs acquisition wo n't be formally closed until June , two or three months later than they originally figured : they should have the required stockholders meeting scheduled in the next 30 days . |
| 14 | It looks like the Microsoft Ballpoint , but under the skin it 's different . |
| 15 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 16 | ‘ It looks like the other side of the road to me , ’ murmured Bill Waddy . |
| 17 | It looks like the same sort of swarf that 's lying under Orrie 's bench . |
| 18 | Death invented the phone it looks like the altar of death |
| 19 | It looks like the Potala in Lhasa , with its endless storeys and narrow windows high up . |
| 20 | ‘ It sounds a bit daft but … it looks like the capital of America . |
| 21 | There may have been some weather impact in the last two months , but basically , it looks like the major U S oil companies that were going overseas are still spending money on buying leases and building up infrastructure . |
| 22 | Recently described as " surely the most sophisticated and complex western coinage of the early Middle Ages " , it looks like the product of an administrative system regularly able to ensure that its will was done . |
| 23 | Well , it looks like the only Leeds players in the US next year will be Kelly and maybe Beeney , along with ex 's like wor Jackie , Sheridan and Irwin . |
| 24 | It looks like the aftermath of a car accident . |
| 25 | It looks like the local supermarket , but it 's actually Britain 's newest prison . |
| 26 | Yes , it looks like the beach with all the sand across the path . |
| 27 | It looks like the seven will have to go again ! |
| 28 | well it makes it look , well it looks like the er paints fading off it |
| 29 | It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for |
| 30 | It looks like the same i , is it the same as our one ? |