Example sentences of "not unlike the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cells of the future lens actively elongate and then begin to fold inwards towards the eye , in a manner not unlike the early formation of the gut in sea-urchins . |
| 2 | This involves the hypnotherapist talking you gently and quietly through a basic relaxation exercise which is not unlike the early stages of yoga . |
| 3 | Grant , who was on stand-by for the full squad for a European Championship qualifier against Romania last season , was , Roxburgh reasoned , not unlike the effervescent Stuart McCall of Rangers . |
| 4 | But Croat and Slovene leaders have reiterated their willingness to sit down with the Serbs and others to work out how Yugoslavia could be turned into a body not unlike the European Community . |
| 5 | In order to make sense of them inferential skills may be needed , as well as an understanding of certain principles not unlike the minimal distance principle that operates for pronominal reference . |
| 6 | There will be deep trouble if it does — not unlike the deep trouble suffered by Mrs Thatcher as a result of her comparable crassness over the poll tax . |
| 7 | It is a natural barrier , not unlike the man-made Iron Curtain or the Berlin Wall ; but it seems to divide men as fiercely . |
| 8 | The structure of large corporations , with chains of command , was not unlike the armed forces . |
| 9 | They will not hesitate to attack anything small or slow enough either , grasping the victim in their powerful jaws and twisting until the mouthful rips free , not unlike the feeding manner of the crocodile . |
| 10 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |
| 11 | He puffed at it , producing not a discernible tune but a catchy rhythm , while attempting a dance not unlike the Irish clog variety . |
| 12 | There used to be a polled Irish Dun dairy breed not unlike the old Suffolk Dun of eastern England . |
| 13 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 14 | And he had done it to a woman who had done nothing to him , simply been a little rude and overbearing , not unlike The Fat Controller himself . |
| 15 | Jaromil is not so much a character as a type , and is not unlike the Shelleyan poet in Shaw 's Candida , Eugene Marchbanks . |
| 16 | For instance , take the word ‘ melin ’ ( which incidentally is not unlike the French word for mill — moulin ) : in certain situations , which I ca n't begin to understand , this becomes felin , the F being pronounced V. If you want the F sound , that 's two Fs . |
| 17 | Perhaps what is at work here is a fear of the other as same not unlike the fascinated fear of the primitive in the notion of ‘ going native ’ : a metamorphosis into the radically other which is no more than an all too easily imagined regression into one 's own ‘ primitive ’ past . |
| 18 | They may well have a reflex aetiology with an afferent arc situated in the colonic wall as well as in the gastric wall — not unlike the gastrocolic reflex . |