Example sentences of "rather like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Framed in the grimy windows is a series of pictures rather like a personal film show : fleeting dramas of everyday life , and sometimes the astonishing beauty of an untouched landscape . |
| 2 | These channels have the advantage that the signal remains within the cell membrane and never enters the external medium — rather like a private line . |
| 3 | To quote a contemporary description , which reads rather like a modern travel brochure : |
| 4 | He used a setup rather like a modern TV picture tube : a red-hot metal filament gave off the electrons , and because these have a negative electric charge , an electric field could be used to accelerate them toward a phosphor-coated screen . |
| 5 | It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote . |
| 6 | The X-ray flux is so great when it emerges from the machine 's vacuum that it causes the air to fluoresce and , if focused , it can burn holes in paper rather like a powerful laser beam . |
| 7 | At one time , thinking of her childhood , which must have been a grey business , rather like a long , dull , cold Sunday , he had been furious with his father-in-law . |
| 8 | But they also held that the universe itself was rather like a vast machine , which , once started off , ran according to its own inbuilt laws and patterns . |
| 9 | The opening to the organ is only a few millimetres in diameter , and so it acts rather like a pin-hole camera , but one that focuses infra-red heat radiation instead of light . |
| 10 | The event horizon , the boundary of the region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape , acts rather like a one-way membrane around the black hole : objects , such as unwary astronauts , can fall through the event horizon into the black hole , but nothing can ever get out of the black hole through the event horizon . |
| 11 | Is this because stylistics feeds off other , more clearly defined , areas within linguistics rather like a poor relation , or because it is in some sense at the interface of these other disciplines ? |
| 12 | The single-storey building is designed in an oval with a church in the centre , rather like a traditional African village where the chief 's house would be in the middle . |
| 13 | It was a small shed , rather like a Dutch oven in shape , set well up into the prow to remove it as far as possible from the passengers ' cabins . |
| 14 | It was usually a suite of rooms with a garden , rather like a ground-floor flat . |
| 15 | If subsequently a critical incident happens which is pertinent to the individual 's particular dysfunctional assumption , then , rather like a key fitting into a lock , the dysfunctional assumptions are activated . |
| 16 | The protein part of the LDL reacts with another protein in the membrane of the tissue , where the cholesterol is to be off-loaded , rather like a key fitting into a lock . |
| 17 | This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window . |
| 18 | ‘ Window breakers ’ were T-shaped , rather like a tall toadstool . |
| 19 | As I have argued elsewhere ( 1989 , pp. 169–71 ) , the temple functioned rather like a great medieval abbey , drawing and re-allocating large revenues from the surrounding area and thereby developing into a major centre of wealth and power . |
| 20 | We found the nest derelict after the last bad weather , the hedgehog dead and deflated , looking rather like a cheap toupee among the leaves . |
| 21 | Gastropods of this type are characterized by strong ribs produced into spines , a long aperture , and relatively low spire looking rather like a Mayan pyramid . |
| 22 | The accepted reason for the inflation of this fish is as a reaction against threat , and indeed , looking rather like a spiny conker with eyeballs , a fully inflated Puffer is a fearsome sight . |
| 23 | Even if flags are not embryos there are many cases in development where the embryo does behave rather like a regulating French flag . |
| 24 | She is rather like a lyric author herself , a bit of a lyre . |
| 25 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |
| 26 | ‘ I made the camp , ’ grumbled Henry , rather like a sad child . |
| 27 | It 's rather like a concrete bunker but hopefully with some work we can make it look quite nice . |
| 28 | The ladies wore their underwear , which , far from revealing anything , seemed rather like a ribbed pink carapace , but did in some measure convey the sordidness of their profession . |
| 29 | To the right in a sort of small chest , rather like a retable , is the reliquary of Charlemagne ( the relic of the True Cross ) , the talisman which ensures the power of Empire to its possessor . |
| 30 | Her life really was that of one of the anawim , the ‘ little ones ’ of God — and the distaste that many of us feel for her is rather like a similar distaste for Thérèse of Lisieux . |