Example sentences of "more like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 27-year-old fashion queen ends up looking more like a cat burglar than a catwalk model in the 30-second ad . |
| 2 | It looks more like a museum , and indeed that is exactly what it now is . |
| 3 | I think it sounds more like a play or film than the name of a group , ’ says Gedge . |
| 4 | This seems to them more like a building site than a City office . |
| 5 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 6 | Luyt met Herbert , whom he remembered as more like a friend than a father to John . |
| 7 | Often the tutor became more like a friend than a teacher , and continued to keep contact with them even after their period of education together had finished . |
| 8 | ‘ Laura was more like a friend than an employer , she was so kind to me and did so many thoughtful things . |
| 9 | He looks much older , and looks more like a pirate than ever , talking in a queer half-American accent . |
| 10 | Behind him Hrun screamed , but it sounded more like a bellow of rage than a cry of pain . |
| 11 | ‘ More like a sacrifice plain and simple , an offering on a bloody altar , if you 'll pardon me . |
| 12 | It sounded more like a courtesy than a threat , a valediction . |
| 13 | ‘ Amotju was so slim and tall , and you are built more like a warrior or a boatman than a scribe . ’ |
| 14 | This was more like a pause in the struggle . |
| 15 | ‘ It sounded , ’ said their visitor , ‘ more like a chicken . ’ |
| 16 | She pranced in front of them , more like a circus pony than a chorus girl . |
| 17 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 18 | He felt more like a hole in the air than ever , and began also to seem frighteningly insensible . |
| 19 | More like a ghost , she whispered . |
| 20 | ‘ What man in the whole world ’ , C. S. Lewis asked , ‘ except a father or a potential father-in-law , cares whether any other man gets married ? ’ and he partly answered his own question by saying that the ‘ self-abnegation ’ and ‘ anxiety ’ of the Poet for his Friend 's good was ‘ more like a parent 's than a lover 's ’ . |
| 21 | In the following example , the question-tag is ‘ are n't they ’ ; when it has a falling tone , as in ( a ) , the implication is said to be that the speaker is comparatively certain that the information is correct , and simply expects the listener to provide confirmation , while the rising tone in ( b ) is said to indicate a lesser degree of certainty , so that the question-tag functions more like a request for information . |
| 22 | They left their luggage in the booking-office — which looked more like a chickencoop than anything else — and set off down the muddy track that the ancient porter had indicated . |
| 23 | He looked more like a farmer , as , indeed , he was , farming ten thousand acres in Lincolnshire as a highly profitable hobby . |
| 24 | Although they embody a real-world claim about how agents are motivated , they function more like a paradigm than a generalization . |
| 25 | To write about emotions may mean that at times a piece of writing in social science reads more like a novel , indeed , may sometimes be a novel — Freud called Moses and Monotheism a novel , and apologized for some of his case-histories reading like novels rather than scientific treatises . |
| 26 | Although appointed as secretary , Doris Alloway became more like a daughter to Mrs Tiller . |
| 27 | She liked wearing the cap ; it made her feel different , as did the long grey coat that went down to the top of her boots , because then she did not feel like Millie Forester , whose mother and father were dead and had no-one belonging to her , except the fat woman and the man with short legs , but more like a princess who , every now and again , donned strange clothes and went out among the common people , and was kind to them , and yet always remained a princess under the disguise . |
| 28 | I was here once , he thought , stirred by a recollection that was not at all like an ordinary memory but more like a flash of déjà vu about some great happiness known before he was born . |
| 29 | As head of government from 1985 to 1988 , Mr Junejo often looked more like a schoolteacher than a political leader and was a strict disciplinarian . |
| 30 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |