Example sentences of "not unlike the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the changed circumstances the sale of the property was understandable , but its loss , not unlike the sinking of a flag ship , was nevertheless a blow . |
| 2 | Joseph Butler 's ideas were seen in particular as a challenge to Wesley 's ( not unlike the way in which the present Bishop of Durham is seen as a challenge to contemporary evangelical ways of thinking ) . |
| 3 | The inside of each binding is a compacted mass of yellowed fatty tissue in which whorls and furling can be seen , looking not unlike the surface of the cerebral cortex . |
| 4 | In Young 's time most of the cattle in Norfolk were in fact Scottish by origin , brought from their native regions to fatten in East Anglia , but the Norfolk Red was an old local middle-horned breed not unlike the Devon in colour and horn growth , and described as ‘ as loose and ill-made as bad Suffolks ’ . |
| 5 | In the United States , although a social survey movement not unlike the tradition of Booth , Rowntree and , later , Bowley , was prominent in the early years of the twentieth century , different political traditions , among other things , gave rise to a different use of social surveys . |
| 6 | It was not unlike the tone of the engine ; a rumble from the boiler of the beast . |
| 7 | The parents and four children — three boys and a girl — lived in an air of smug bourgeois prosperity and Catholic pedagogy , not unlike the cameos of their more famous namesake , James Joyce , in the earlier chapters of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . |
| 8 | Millennia ago the Sahara was a green rain-fed savanna , not unlike the plains of East Africa today . |
| 9 | Not unlike the flight of the sycamore seed , the Rotachute was to be dropped from an aircraft , its folded rotors opening on release and autorotating during descent . |
| 10 | The visit of the Association was not unlike the coming of a circus : local intellectuals had an opportunity to mingle with the eminent who came in droves , cities competed in the lavishness of their entertainment , and in days before radio and television one could see and hear well known speakers addressing scientific audiences , or sometimes great crowds of working men . |
| 11 | But is it also realistic to assume that the West might tolerate it if Mr Gorbachev decided that the Romanian people , not unlike the people of Panama , deserve to enjoy democracy , and that the Soviet Union should send some of its military across the border to dispose of the Ceausescu family and their killer Securitas forces ? |
| 12 | If anything these somewhat stereotyped complaints sound not unlike the protest of agrarian society at the higher wages and extravagant consumption patterns of the industrial sector , at the dissolute habits of miners and the St Monday custom observed by many artificers . |
| 13 | In fact this is not unlike the collapse of a span , " for a crack at one point concentrates the stress around that point accelerating the collapse . |
| 14 | But the American War of Independence was not about territories and Powers , it was about freedom and liberties , and the victory was forged as much by the quill pen as the sword , by the men who wrote and signed a document not unlike the Declaration of Arbroath in content , the Declaration of Independence . |
| 15 | ‘ Ours is not unlike the job of a good barrister , ’ Peter Yeo observed , reaching a peroration . |