Example sentences of "rather like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stripped of his blue tussore , Vigo himself might look rather like that , Wexford thought . |
| 2 | A raider — either the existing management or a buy-out specialist such as KKR — in effect took a gamble rather like that taken every day by a stockmarket dealer or currency trader . |
| 3 | Rising initially in a vertical plume for many thousands of metres , and then spreading out laterally in the upper atmosphere , it took on a shape rather like that of a pine tree , with a trunk and branches . |
| 4 | A favourite trick was to breathe out as hard as possible , to make the rubber at the side of the face make a noise rather like that of a whoopee cushion . |
| 5 | The voice was distinctive , at the same time hoarse and shrill , rather like that of the late chanteuse Edith Piaf . |
| 6 | ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | Cernunnos is portrayed as an interesting amalgam of various cultures , his one-shouldered tunic being reminiscent of a Roman toga and his cross-legged position being rather like that of Buddha . |
| 8 | Our relation ship was rather like that of a father and child . |
| 9 | This has an effect rather like that of a cement mixer . |
| 10 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 11 | The job of a caller is rather like that of a priest who intones , line by line , the words of a prayer and to whom the congregation respond , at each stage , using the appropriate replies . |
| 12 | The relationship is rather like that of pornography to sexual aggression , cathartic or stimulant according to one 's prejudices . |
| 13 | Powell noticed , as others have , that he preferred to keep conversation to light topics — his manner was rather like that of a headmaster talking to the more intelligent boys . |
| 14 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 15 | In practice , iteration in this case behaves rather like that for a defective matrix ( 2.7.5 ) , in that convergence is slow and successive columns tend to a quasi-arithmetic progression of the elements . |
| 16 | Olten is rather like that . |
| 17 | The difference between ROM and RAM is rather like that between a printed book , which can only be read , and a personal notepad written in erasable ink , and which can be used over and over again . |
| 18 | As the matter spirals into the black hole , it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction , causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth . |
| 19 | Rather like that game where you had to memorise so many objects on a tray . |
| 20 | The House will expect me to apologise again for the remarks that I injudiciously made when I was trying to illustrate a simple point — that , with the private sector providing more rail services in future , I hope that a range of choice will be available to the travelling public in terms of price and time of day , rather like that provided by the airlines and the long-distance coach market . |
| 21 | It was rather like that strange spirit that hovered over the Wilson family when they were contemplating an evening out and told them where they ought to eat , and it had something in common with whatever it was that told the entire Liverpool football stadium to sing ‘ You 'll Never Walk Alone ’ at the same moment . |
| 22 | The effect of these personal remarks spoken in Creole is thus rather like that of the " jocular " refusals ; potentially insulting on the face of it , but in fact treated by all participants as not serious and non-threatening . |
| 23 | Does your Lordship have the it should be er a small red file bundle that looks rather like that my Lord . |
| 24 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 25 | You always knew when she was annoyed , because she went icy cool and would smile a lot , rather like all the best gangsters do in films — a frightening dichotomy . |
| 26 | FIG. 2 From outside , the Milky Way probably looks rather like this typical barred spiral galaxy , NGC4535 . |
| 27 | All the same , Sabrina Fair is heavenly and rather like some of the poetry Deirdre wrote last summer … . |
| 28 | If there had been a fire the tragedy was doubly sickening ; frequently there was not a fire and it all seemed so unreal rather like some still life tableau . |
| 29 | THIS ANTHOLOGY of soccer writing — or , in some cases , writing which incorporates soccer — is rather like those games in which one side is a Rest of the World XI or a Football League XI . |
| 30 | Once I 'd mastered a none-too-straightforward control panel , which looks rather like those muticoloured ever-flickering computers you find on the dashboard of executive cars , my test run got under way . |