Example sentences of "[noun] like [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Option ( b ) could have taken the following forms : ( i ) an attack on the forces/territory of those seeking to obstruct free navigation ; ( ii ) escort activity to defend merchant shipping seeking to exercise the right to free navigation ; and ( iii ) clearing wreckage or mines endangering free passage through Gulf waterways like the Strait of Hormuz . |
| 2 | Presently she found that she had the gift of tongues : notions of sacrifice and immolation and of a saviour with hair of sackcloth poured out of her mouth like a river of lava . |
| 3 | Her eyes were as dark as a rotten egg , and a tear of blood ran down alongside her nose to the corner of her mouth like a symptom of regret . |
| 4 | The protest issued from her lips like a cry of despair . |
| 5 | The city glitters like a forme of type , |
| 6 | A steel grate like a suit of armour , a long time unsquired , and what looked like a tile and marble surround , it was difficult to tell , the snot-green artist had been busy here , too . |
| 7 | At the bottom of the argument about running state schools like a chain of McDonalds hamburger restaurants , handing out Big Mac gift vouchers to disadvantaged kids , is the issue of whether education is ultimately just a utilitarian service to the marketplace that can be understood in simple commercial language , or something more important and fundamental that warrants different treatment . |
| 8 | The blade hit the peak of the man 's cloth-covered helmet , ringing his ears like the knell of doom . |
| 9 | Clearly there are dialectal differences , accent differences , as well as ‘ register ’ differences depending on variables like the topic of discussion and the roles of the participants ( see e.g. Trudgill , 1974 and Hudson , 1980 for discussion of these sorts of differences ) . |
| 10 | Locked round his neck like a trap of hooks |
| 11 | kids like a bit of colour and |
| 12 | Above , a gibbous moon fought a brave but doomed battle to be seen through the scudding cloud , occasionally emerging to spill its light like a bucket of whitewash over the slates . |
| 13 | TOURISTS are shunning fee-paying attractions like the Tower of London in favour of cheaper places like farms , gardens and country parks , a survey detailing Sightseeing in the UK during 1991 has revealed . |
| 14 | In the Lyttelton , it 's such a thrill to see Alan Bennett blossom in another line of work , by which I mean a full-length piece like The Madness of George III . |
| 15 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 16 | Books like The Skill of Reading series ( eds . |
| 17 | ‘ The shadow of the dome of pleasure ’ flashes past on the waves like a sequence of film , while the poet reflects on what he has seen previously , the only thing now remaining being the sense of wonder amidst the conciliation of paradox and the momentary solution of metaphysical inquiry : |
| 18 | He thought for a second , just an instant , there was something there , something in her eyes like a flicker of uncertainty , but it was so brief he was unsure if he had imagined it . |
| 19 | Possible explanations include a biological predisposition to a specific disorder ; the particular threat embodied in the event to the person 's long-term plans and purposes ; the significance of the event in the context of the person 's previous history of failure or loss ; and personal characteristics like a lack of confidence or self-esteem . |
| 20 | You know , get our cut ’ — the word sliced through her mind like a blade of ice — ‘ from all the strikes we 've made this season . |
| 21 | Her stomach tightened when his free hand lightly touched her breast , discovering the shape , stroking the nipple through the fine material of her nightdress , making desire explode in her mind like a shower of stars . |
| 22 | If doubt is human and universal , why do so many Christians treat it as dark and unmentionable , a problem that gnaws at the mind like the suspicion of cancer or troubles the conscience like a guilty thought ? |
| 23 | Over the top she had a jacket of the palest blue , and a brooch of seed pearls like a bunch of grapes . |
| 24 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 25 | Several readers like the combination of filo and fish or seafood — prawns , salmon , trout . |
| 26 | Much of the paperwork concerns mundane transactions like the ordering of supplies for the Castle . |
| 27 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |
| 28 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 29 | ‘ I must say , ’ said Constance , ‘ it 's nice to see a lot of animals sitting peacefully in their kennels like a lot of monks . |
| 30 | ‘ Some parents like a degree of certainty , which the purely equity-based schemes do n't offer , ’ says Anne Feek of the School Fees Insurance Agency . |