Example sentences of "[det] [verb] like an " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To some , that looks like an act of wilful provocation . |
| 2 | Mm , that looks like an innocent little er |
| 3 | caw caw caw That looks like an old one to me does n't it ? |
| 4 | Oh that looks like an oil with a |
| 5 | Ooh that looks like an elephant |
| 6 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 7 | Anne read the guidebooks , while I 'd say , ‘ Hey , this looks like an interesting airfield ! ’ to which Anne would reply , £The fact that the place has an interesting approach does not mean that I want to spend my holidays there ! ’ |
| 8 | This seemed like an excellent idea . |
| 9 | This seemed like an attempt to prevent the signature of the EDC treaty and the West would not be drawn on it . |
| 10 | This sounds like an entirely comforting vision of the Church . |
| 11 | This sounds like an idle life I know , but these long hours of staring were no more idle than Boy 's long journeys around the city on foot had been aimless . |
| 12 | This sounds like an invitation to buy from renewable technologies until you realise that the intended non-fossil fuel source is nuclear power . |
| 13 | This sounds like an attempt to second-guess market opinion , as impossible as the attempt to guess the outcome of a beauty contest . |
| 14 | The legislation , I mean do you think th th th this sounds like an improvement ? |
| 15 | ‘ This sounds like an interesting story , ’ he said . |
| 16 | This sounds like an interesting conversation ! |
| 17 | This looked like an army . |
| 18 | This sounded like an improvement on the status quo , but it turned out to be a two-edged sword . |
| 19 | This works like an individual Filofax where copies of appraisals and checklists of personal targets set by the employee are included . |
| 20 | That sounds like an excellent idea . |
| 21 | It all reads like an Agatha Christie novel . |
| 22 | It all looked like an enlarged version of those laboratory mazes they let rats loose in . |