Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damp casein is very like damp cheese and its elastic behaviour is anything but Hookean . |
| 2 | While the lady who doubtlessly trusted him most , his wife , said sadly , ‘ I think his fate is rather like Humpty Dumpty 's , quite as tragic and quite as impossible to put right ’ . |
| 3 | I always get the impression that they believe that double jacquard is just like single-bed Fair Isle but without the floats . |
| 4 | I do n't know what I expected to see , but as always when you have a tooth out or get kicked half to death the change in appearance is nowhere like commensurate with the pain . |
| 5 | In its dependence on those presuppositions his biology was more like statistical than either celestial or quantum mechanics ( Hull , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | For instance , though some choral sections of Stravinsky 's first movement are almost like Medieval plainchant , the atmosphere of the music is dominated by the motor rhythm of the slightly dissonant accompaniment , with its cross-rhythms and dynamic pulsations giving a modern , machine-like character . |
| 7 | It approximates to a miniature octavo book , while others in the Dolls ' House library are more like reduced folios . |
| 8 | Can not help feeling Truffaut 's real talent lies in desserts : the conjuring up of trifles , and that what I want from cinema screen is more like roast beef . |