Example sentences of "more like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More like a cabin ? |
| 2 | , in the picture it 's really , it looks more like a jacket rather than a blouse . |
| 3 | The BTU tax will survive in name , but it will look much more like a consumption tax . |
| 4 | she was more like a bloke |
| 5 | the girls ' bedrooms which was more like a boxroom than a bedroom before |
| 6 | Yes they 're more sophisticated , and what I 'm concerned about is whether we have the right back up to be able to sustain a war erm there at present the war is more like a blitzkrieg which the Germans used at the start of the second world war |
| 7 | Functional sociology may be Weberian in its origins , but Shils , with his emphasis on integration and the sacred nature of societal values , reads much more like a Durkheimian . |
| 8 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 9 | ‘ More — more like a fortnight , ’ Emma faltered . |
| 10 | He seemed big and rugged — more like a logger than a hotel executive at this moment . |
| 11 | Sound more like a man I do . |
| 12 | Not so much what ancient writings used to call a ’ ghost town ’ — more like a corpse town . |
| 13 | It actually sounds , it actually sounds can I put this to you , it sounds less like a Child Support Agency and more like a Treasury support agency every day does n't it ? |
| 14 | Whereas , according to the porter , it was something much more like a love-nest … |
| 15 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 16 | Johnson 's , I was soon to learn , was typical of other South Seas stores — more like a warehouse than a shop , with new lines that had just arrived by boat piled up against the shelves of the barn-like building . |
| 17 | I think the atmosphere is certainly lost and the environment is different today without the patients , and their attitude was that this was more like a family than a hospital ward and they were treated as family . |
| 18 | With the government 's policy of creating an internal market , ‘ we are going to have to behave much more like a business in getting work for the government ’ , said Worswick . |
| 19 | I told him he could n't push me around any more like a football from one job to another . |
| 20 | It was the American equivalent to the Bren gun only it , it was more like a rifle , it had n't got a stand , you know , more like a rifle butt , you know . |
| 21 | It was the American equivalent to the Bren gun only it , it was more like a rifle , it had n't got a stand , you know , more like a rifle butt , you know . |
| 22 | He was , he was more like a pantomime character , how , character you 'd see on the stage |
| 23 | I suspect that most sensible designers would think in terms of something more like a skate . |
| 24 | More like a loan aye , Phil ? |
| 25 | Doug Gowan , of the TUC Education Department , argues that the courses are intended to develop skills and techniques rather than transmit abstract and academic knowledge ; the TUC has tried to dissuade tutors from thinking in terms of ‘ subjects ’ or ‘ disciplines ’ , and instead to shift towards ‘ student-centred educational methods ’ which shift away from classroom styles towards something more like a trade union meeting or office discussion : |
| 26 | Was more like a drop and come out your hand . |
| 27 | and there was only these er little screws , more like a nail with a , a little spiral on |
| 28 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 29 | We 're in a room that occupies the whole ground floor of the cottage ; in one comer , a steep staircase — more like a ladder climbs to some sort of loft or upper room . |
| 30 | More like a pitch fork bent at right angles then ? |