Example sentences of "much like an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Properly drained and topped with about 2 metres of sand , they have become playing fields or ornamental gardens , with the seed-mulch mixture being spread by a machine much like an asphalt spreader . |
| 2 | It looked , she thought , very much like an excuse to get in touch with her . |
| 3 | It sounded too much like an apology . |
| 4 | Nobody felt much like an athlete at four in the morning . |
| 5 | Currency Options provide insurance against adverse exchange rate movements without penalty if exchange rates move favourably but they do have a fundamental drawback in that they are purchased with a cash premium , much like an insurance policy , which can be substantial . |
| 6 | During the action of The Lord of the Rings , though , Gandalf never looks very much like an angel , or at least not one of the normal iconographic kind . |
| 7 | Like the latter-day Woody Allen , he has nothing to declare but his auteurism , a deflection from genuine ambition much like an indie Number One — Hartley 's exact current position in America . |
| 8 | Ti amo : it sounds perhaps a bit too much like an aperitif , but is full of structural conviction with subject and verb , the doer and the deed , enclosed in the same word . |
| 9 | I hoped it would n't sound too much like an Oscar acceptance speech , but I was determined not to leave anyone out . |
| 10 | The practice looked all too much like an effort to make the Scots pay for the French , and for French interests . |