Example sentences of "like [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill was succeeded by Eden , like Thorneycroft a bit of an artist , and like Churchill vulnerable to illness . |
| 2 | There were a funny few minutes about John Major 's working class credentials but like Mills the rest of the act was a bit hackneyed . |
| 3 | To stop evening shine , choose an oil-free skin cover like Maxi No Shine Foundation , £2.85 . |
| 4 | On 11 December the rumour spread that the French were landing in Pevensey Bay , like William the Conqueror 700 years earlier . |
| 5 | Collocations like foot the bill and curry favour , whose constituents do not like to be separated , may be termed bound collocations . |
| 6 | I do n't know what anyone else says , you 've only got to be in prison a week — no , a day — and all you want when you get out is revenge , to go and get drunk and do something really stupid like break a shop window or something . |
| 7 | Dessie Jordan , like David an Ulsterbus driver , praising the staff at Glengormley Health centre , for their work co-ordinating donations , added : ‘ This trip is only made possible by the help of a lot of people — our volunteers , Stena Sealink , and all those who have supported us with donations . ’ |
| 8 | It 's difficult to imagine him as a Plantagenet — rather like Edward the Second . |
| 9 | But when we come to look at the cluster and the and the audience contact then then you know we may see something a little bit different , Okay but er those are the important aspects things like things like whoops the use of the hands you know several people put their hands in their pockets or put them behind their back or something like that . |
| 10 | I 'm off round the corner after it like Wally the cat ; then I pounce . |
| 11 | There is a theatre , baths , the impressive library and an odeon mainly erected in the second century A.D. Like Pompeii a number of streets have been uncovered , some marble paved and with remains on each side of shops , houses and public buildings . |
| 12 | The ‘ Sacher Torte ’ cake was available for purchase at something like £3 a mouthful . |
| 13 | Hoomey 's thin arms and legs were hard and gristly ; he was getting more like Nails every day . |
| 14 | But now it gets more like home every time I 'm here . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Because of the big outdoor venues it 's more like £150,000 a day this time . |
| 16 | Beth never took her eyes off the little group ; Cissie , who was now a young lady of exceptional prettiness and who was hugging her brother for the umpteenth time ; and Beth 's own son Richard … now six years old and growing more like Tyler every day ; and David , a quiet man , a man who was too gentle , a man still dominated by the monster who had raised him . |
| 17 | Small homeotherms , like many.in the rodent family , do not have the advantage of large size nor of metabolic generation of heat . |
| 18 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 19 | To define the data to be held in a system like QUESTOR the user types the following commands : CREATE SET EMPLOYEES INCLUDE EMP.NO(1) , NAME(A20) , DEPT(A10) … |
| 20 | In a great city like Ibadan a flour made from cassava , known as gari , is the basic foodstuff and armies of hard working women perform the task of transforming the cassava into gari ; clothes and basic furniture , as discussed in Chapter 10 , are all made by local artisans . |
| 21 | every day is like Sunday every day is silent and grey |
| 22 | The best hope is candidly to explain what one is , like Julian the camp-survivor and destroyer in A Fairly Honourable Defeat , and let others think what they may . |
| 23 | Words ending in tion like station a railway station or see how many you can but punctuation . |
| 24 | Come to us , God of justice , that we may hear the cries of the dispossessed in every land , calling us , like Jesus the healer , to walk with them in the search for justice and mercy . |
| 25 | ‘ The average parent is probably paying something like £4,000 a year today for a thirteen-year-old attending a fee-paying school , day or boarding . |
| 26 | No wonder he 's been dubbed ‘ the Ben Elton of magic ’ by Radio 1 's Steve Wright while a magazine writer said he ‘ makes Paul Daniels look like Gordon the Gopher ’ . |
| 27 | The vignoble produced a reasonable vin rose which she drank like water every lunchtime . |
| 28 | Like GCHQ the NSA has two functions . |
| 29 | For every Western aid worker , there are at least five Somali aid workers who , like Hawa the nurse , put themselves at greater risk , work longer hours for little or no money , and provide a body of local people who may be able to continue their work in health care or administration after the fighting is over . |
| 30 | This came from Bobo Legrendre , like Haynes a native of Louisiana . |