Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thus bodies like the Church exercise power over the individual on the basis of the knowledge they possess of that person . |
| 2 | Like the church roof in Poictiers |
| 3 | And I bet she 's got a face like the back end of a sheep . ’ |
| 4 | Their peppy ensemble style and ambitious sound gets you thinking of the '70s boom era for Irish acts like The Bothy Band and Clannad , a time when there seemed to be masses of energy and ideas around . |
| 5 | They seem to be a strangely ugly , ill-nourished lot , rather like the subhuman race in The Rime Machine who lived underground and fed upon the Beautiful People up above . |
| 6 | This room was gigantic : like the hangar deck of an aircraft carrier . |
| 7 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |
| 8 | Obviously situations like the airport arrival can be worked out ahead of time and you can plan how best to accommodate the media for such moments , but it 's equally important to spot new potential and make the most of it . |
| 9 | Like the year book |
| 10 | I look like the title role in Night of the Iguana . ’ |
| 11 | Reality , in York as elsewhere , means precious little public protection for our pubs and heavy reliance on the better nature of the brewers credit — brewers such as Samuel Smith 's , for for their loving and appropriately ‘ benign neglect ’ of a low-barrelage , unpretentious gem like The Wellington Inn in Alma Terrace , York . |
| 12 | Stylistically , politically , socially he was out of sync with the fortnightly paper but Oz ‘ was clean , well printed , the complete antithesis of It , which looked like the Wellington Echo from New Zealand . ’ |
| 13 | He looks like the brick wall he 's reached , she thought , and walked by . |
| 14 | More , it was the result of the involvement of large multi-national concerns like the newspaper empire of the American-based Australian , Rupert Murdoch , which took over not only the downmarket Sun but also The Times . |
| 15 | Acciòn Nacional initially provided a temporary home not only for realists like the Salamanca lawyer José Maria Gil Robles , who in his memoirs ( published thirty years later ) was to admit to always having been ‘ a monarchist at heart ’ , but also for monarchist die-hards . |
| 16 | Padded to the eyebrows and looking like the Michelin Man , he would make his tentative way to the crease , usually at number 11 , and woe-betide the visiting fielder who held on to a catch put up by him or the bowler who failed to stifle an lbw appeal at birth . |
| 17 | He said he looked like the Michelin man because fluid was building up in his body . |
| 18 | The evaluators conclude that while the evaluation has shown how INSET and staff development can be enriched by a project like the Essex scheme , for a variety of reasons the development of this area has been disappointing . |
| 19 | Like the publishing industry , the academic community is rapidly coming to realise that its stock in hand is not words on the page , but information , independent of its physical realisation . |
| 20 | In recent times when the tennis calendar has become so crowded , a number of prominent voices in the sport have suggested that the Davis Cup , like the Federation Cup , should be played all in the same week — or two weeks — and at the same venue . |
| 21 | Like the Brahan Seer who prophesied that ‘ two false preachers would come across the seas to revolutionise the religion of the land and the Highlands would be overrun by ministers without grace ’ , he was distrustful of this new religious energy . |
| 22 | This is just like the sweep stroke where we extend the reach to apply more force . |
| 23 | Moreover , the outstanding East Anglian barns like the Paston barn near North Walsham in Norfolk or the Framsden Hall barn in Suffolk , show how important these old farm buildings are from the standpoint of medieval architecture . |
| 24 | This is the Monin-Obukhov length ; like the Richardson number it is defined to be positive when the stratification is stabilizing and negative when it is destabilizing . |
| 25 | Are racial double standards ( viz. , good/bad natives ) and double binds ( damned if you are different and damned if you are like the master race ) a function of this contradictory or dual relation to the Other ? |
| 26 | Some , like the Winston-Salem Journal , were deliberately restrained . |
| 27 | So far , Detroit city officials have pinned their redevelopment hopes on projects like the Poletown plant . |
| 28 | Prices in the shops and restaurants drop like the libeccio wind did for us and people have time to talk to you . |
| 29 | Like the discount market this provides individual banks with an outlet for surplus funds and a source of borrowing when their reserves are low . |
| 30 | We would be imitating the Bolsheviks ' own rose-tinted over-concentration on their favourite study topics ( like the proletariat state and collective farms ) if we lingered here too long . |