Example sentences of "like [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unexceptional though the proposals are , their widespread endorsement could have two unwelcome effects for Mr de Klerk : of internationalising negotiations for reform , and of marginalising other potentially important representatives of the black majority , like the Zulu leader Chief Buthelezi . |
| 2 | The most likely explanation of anting is that it helps birds like the European jay to keep their feathers in good condition . |
| 3 | The success of a brood parasite like the European cuckoo depends on how well it can ‘ dupe ’ its host , whether reed warbler or dunnock . |
| 4 | The indigo birds and whydahs of Africa are brood parasites just like the European cuckoo , but there are some interesting differences in the ways in which they have adapted to a parasitic lifestyle . |
| 5 | International football , like the European club scene , is a major source of cash as well as prestige for the Scottish game . |
| 6 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 7 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 8 | WITH saviours like the European Community 's bureaucrats , the electronics industry of Europe hardly needs enemies . |
| 9 | DIRECTORS of public bodies like the Central Electricity Generating Board and the UK Atomic Energy Authority do not only arouse controversial views in the press it seems . |
| 10 | NewCo will be mutually owned , like the central fund . |
| 11 | Later , he showed her around and told her in detail the things that needed doing to the house , and she imagined her father here , sliding down the banisters or across the ballroom floor , and she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her like the muffling fog . |
| 12 | Staring helplessly after the departing vehicle , she felt a light breeze cooling the mist of perspiration that had dampened her temples , and the fine peacock-blue cotton of her full skirt — Faye had decreed ‘ no uniform ’ — flared and dropped again , caressing her bare legs like the teasing touch of a man 's fingers . |
| 13 | Like the 41-foot tree trunk under which Hippocrates , the father of medicine , was said to have made the world 's first diagnoses and issued the first prescriptions . |
| 14 | Souza , like the murdered leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho [ see pp. 36459 ; 37914 ] , was a well known environmentalist who campaigned against the destruction of the rain forest for cattle pasture , and against cattle ranchers who expelled and often killed landless workers who occupied their land . |
| 15 | Features like the key pouch on the side pocket and the expanding lid are practical , not gimmicky . |
| 16 | But the record since 1945 suggests that it is highly improbable that the British people will play anything like the major role in the affairs of mankind in the twenty-first century that they have done so frequently , if often unavailingly , in the course of the twentieth . |
| 17 | So there are , there are problems with this sort of policy in terms of , of the , like the economic logic of it is that yes you go for a rich peasant economy which creates inequalities which will provide you with industrialization , which will then enable you to get back to inequalities but , in term back to equality |
| 18 | Perhaps , of all the models that were roughly like the real universe , only Friedmann 's would contain a big bang singularity . |
| 19 | It looked , and sounded , and played like the real animal . |
| 20 | So the robot made the baby animal warm , like the real animal . |
| 21 | Like the real jungle , the music business holds a dual attraction for the entrepreneur : the thrill of a gamble and the chance of a quick large profit . |
| 22 | There is history and culture there , and a trip worth making is out to the old Portuguese colony of Macau , far less prosperous than Hong Kong , probably far more like the real China . |
| 23 | Not just on my own he just said that , it was a bit bad cos I , I said to him , you know , who 's going and he listed like er reeled off , I ca n't remember , reeled off a load of blokes yes last night and I said are there any girls going and he said well I 'll see if I can get Laura and Giles to come and I said yeah I feel much better about that , you know , whatever and then today he said erm look ca n't go and was a real , I du n no he 's got something and he 's usually like the real medium and he , you know , if there 's e if there 's ever like a pregnant pause then he 's the one that like keeps it all going |
| 24 | The action begins in the Vatican papal apartments , where all the cardinals use mobile phones , the head of security is a Mafia hood from the Bronx , and Pope John Paul II ( Berwick Kaler , who looks nothing like the real pontiff ) is suffering from acute paranoia . |
| 25 | The pattern of law was provided by an ideal realm of geometrical shapes which were eternal and in a perfect state of absolute rest , like the real world of Parmenides . |
| 26 | 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE THE REAL THING |
| 27 | looks like the REAL THING |
| 28 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 29 | Traditionalists may huff and puff and say there is nothing like the real thing ; aesthetes may deplore the destruction of mystery ; but for most of us it proves as enthralling as exploring a maze . |
| 30 | The model behaves so much like the real thing that the Berkeley scientists believe they can predict what would happen to the building during an earthquake . |