Example sentences of "much like " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one sense it 's very much like good investigative journalism , ’ explains Malcolm Smart , Head of Research at the IS . |
| 2 | Is the problem that it is too much like a repetition of other areas of the glass ? |
| 3 | This plant 's exquisite pink and white blooms look much like sugar icing cake decorations . |
| 4 | Wholly in the spirit of that imagery is his vision of the Baal Shem 's butterfly — so much like a kite ! — which followed him down the hill . |
| 5 | OCTOGENARIAN American architect Philip Johnson once said : ‘ Architecture is very much like the oldest profession in the world . |
| 6 | For the past decade , the teachers at Gillingham have been working towards something which looks very much like the national curriculum , to ensure a smooth transfer to the new system . |
| 7 | It was a very fluid , much like a naval war . |
| 8 | ‘ She is very much like Ashayer , but might have a little more speed . ’ |
| 9 | Clare Shearer , looking rather too much like the Principal Boy of the pantomime , gave an attractive performance as Cherubino — not quite as breathless and impetuous as I would have liked from this juvenile Don Giovanni — but it is very difficult to get used to hearing the immortal Non so piu cosa son sung in translation . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't cross them out — that would have been too much like defacing the book , ’ he says . |
| 11 | In part this reflects a reluctance to let outsiders interfere with the job of policing , as well as a suspicion about soci — ology , which for many policemen sounds too much like the word ‘ socialist ’ ; social work suffers from the same association . |
| 12 | In fact , the whole hierarchy of the police is very much like a school , and a public school at that , and the reserve men are at the bottom of the line ’ ( FN 7/7/87 , p. 25 ) . |
| 13 | The mosquitoes had already arrived in force and made us feel as if one trench was very much like another . |
| 14 | Sometimes biblical chant sounds too much like adaptation from simple anthropological textbooks , but we can see at any rate the exemplification of the way in which Lawrence 's ‘ capering redskins ’ had to be for Eliot now ‘ Life ’ but ‘ not the last word , only the first ’ . |
| 15 | The crowds that lined the roads on the way to the guillotine looked much like most of the people in Wallsend . |
| 16 | I fancied that I knew what he was thinking ; much like what Jack would have thought . |
| 17 | It was too much like facing darkness . |
| 18 | It may be a cliché , but the compactness , the lack of weight , abundance and responsiveness of power , massively powerful brakes and rigidity of suspension all add up to a car that feels very much like a big kart . |
| 19 | The photograph was n't very much like the girl who sat on the other side of the desk , but passport photographs seldom are much like their originals . |
| 20 | The photograph was n't very much like the girl who sat on the other side of the desk , but passport photographs seldom are much like their originals . |
| 21 | The first of July will no doubt be much like the thirtieth of June — such is the tragedy of Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | It 's not suitable for owners of Amstrad PC-1512s and 1640s which have no fans — much like the company itself , apparently . |
| 23 | Allan Martin , sacked as coach to Aberavon 's forwards this week , believes that Welsh rugby is becoming too much like football with the current spate of hiring and firing based on league results . |
| 24 | But for one Chilean exile , Andres Valenzuela , Thursday will be much like any other day — long , boring and lonely . |
| 25 | I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act . |
| 26 | Such an ambitious Tuscan confection surely deserves a cakestand , assembled as it is on a noble pedestal of rock , its buildings ( mixed plain and fancy ) composed of that porous tufa which looks much like sponge cake and which comes in all the golds , pinks , browns and mauves of the best Battenberg . |
| 27 | His father was a public relations man for Dr Barnardo 's Homes and would chat away and do all that kind of thing , whereas David was very much like his mother in terms of showing affection . |
| 28 | By that time DeFries had an office in Park Avenue which was very much like the old Gem offices in London . |
| 29 | This raises the possibility that OS/2 — and , with it , IBM 's partnership with Microsoft — will get caught in a vicious circle , much like DOS got caught in a virtuous one . |
| 30 | Their demands are much like those of the ill-fated Democratic Platform — reformers who quit the party but failed to organise themselves into a workable opposition . |