Example sentences of "a [noun] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roofs of these are covered with a water proof covering of a tar like substance . |
| 2 | Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often . |
| 3 | These are a bit like pop-up books with foreground , middle ground and background to give perspective and , in movement , parallax , that is , near things apparently moving past each other in the foreground and middle ground while the background stands still , which is how motion is perceived in the real world seen from , say , a train . |
| 4 | I agreed to marriage counselling but only if I could go alone , although I knew that going alone was a bit like filing fiddled expenses . |
| 5 | The friendliness was overwhelming and a small crowd would gather around me every time I stopped to talk or watch a game of sipa — a bit like tennis only played with your feet and a ball covered in rubbery tendrils . |
| 6 | Yeah A S K so that 's a one a bit like desk . |
| 7 | Creating icons like this with Icon Make-It is a bit like painting by numbers — you just fill in the squares |
| 8 | Feminism , after all , is a bit like communism — a great idea , but it does n't work . |
| 9 | ‘ He looks a bit like Dad , do n't you think , Ginny ? ’ |
| 10 | on now , I think it 's a bit like factory inspectors , and I talk from experience on this , er th o i me , everything gets cleaned up before the inspectors |
| 11 | An ability to deal with the public is also important — when you 're out working you 'll quite often be approached by a visitor who 'll treat you a bit like Gardener 's Question Time . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a bit like blackmail , especially the part which points out all the money raised would be spent in their hospital . ’ |
| 13 | ’ The children treat blindness a bit like hayfever , it 's an inconvenience . |
| 14 | Ben Matthews of Oxford cycos says it 's a bit like ice hockey , not like polo . |
| 15 | He descends , a bit like royalty , not really down among us . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a bit like dancing . |
| 17 | Everything else is a bonus , but it 's also a bit like hunting round the first circuit safely in the Grand National — you know it 's the next circuit that matters . ’ |
| 18 | At Belgo you sit on plain wooden chairs with pickaxe handles for legs and eat stoemp ( it 's a bit like bubble 'n' squeak ) served by sardonic men in monk 's habits . |
| 19 | a bit like Furniture Factors , like a pattern on them , round edge |
| 20 | and out of education , but countries like Italy were all ready were a bit like South America |
| 21 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 22 | especially if you 're using theta for the angle looks a bit like theta . |
| 23 | So mass is a sort of a bit like resistance , it 's resistance to acceleration . |
| 24 | Well that hole is a bit like resistance . |
| 25 | it 's a bit like rugby . |
| 26 | They 're a bit like stone . |
| 27 | And effectively , it 's a bit like drowning . |
| 28 | It 's a bit like psittacosis , the infectious disease parrots suffer from , which they can also pass on to humans . |
| 29 | But the organ music was lovely , although some of the vocalists sang rather modern stuff , a bit like rock and roll . |
| 30 | Erm it 's sort of like lines , you have a bit like paint , you know that sort of erm it 's like paint brush stripes . |