Example sentences of "[is] more like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is more like a European or an American youngster . ’ |
| 2 | In the short term , next week 's budget crunch is more like a toy train crash rather than the real thing . |
| 3 | It is more like a palace than a village manor house . |
| 4 | Actually , it is more like a caftan . |
| 5 | And yet the years have lessened the gap in age between us : she is more like a sister to me now . |
| 6 | The author cites the spirit of Anthony Sampson 's Drum magazine of the '60s , but this book is more like a drum machine — relentless . |
| 7 | Dapitan is really only an honorary city — with just one bank , one cinema , three blacksmiths , two petrol stations and five firemen ( the last fire was in 1980 ) , it is more like a small country town . |
| 8 | It is more like a slow process of sifting , in which , by a long series of stages , and with many pauses , grains of one kind tend to come together in a heap ’ . |
| 9 | It is more like a wager , where we gamble our lives on the probability of God . |
| 10 | She 's a dreadful-looking woman , big , fat , and her voice is more like a man 's . ’ |
| 11 | Litigation is more like a marathon than a sprint . |
| 12 | Although called a chapel , the building is more like a cathedral in scale , with its awe-inspiring and lofty interior terminating in a remarkable fan vault , the largest in the world , and its wonderfully delicate detailing belying its weight of almost 2000 tonnes . |
| 13 | Riches confer a sort of exclusiveness which is more like a quarantine . |
| 14 | This cake is more like a pudding — serve it in a glass bowl so that everyone can appreciate the attractive layering . |
| 15 | This is another attempt to imitate true ballad style , but this time it is more like a medieval ballad — ‘ bright and red / Uprose the morning sun ’ sounds like The Ancient Mariner . |
| 16 | It is more like a gemstone which has been cut and faceted , so that each way it is turned shows a different angle , catching the light in a thousand different ways . |
| 17 | It is more like a distorting mirror ; you immediately recognize yourself , but not quite in a flattering shape and form familiar to you . |
| 18 | If you 're at the net , the motion is more like a punch , but it 's still there . |
| 19 | Tolkien 's epic is more like a romantic reflection of pre-1914 British life and of those models of manly virtue he had once witnessed and cherished , it seems likely , in the grim camaraderie of the trenches in the First World War . |
| 20 | IBM 's LAUNCH OF DB2 3.0 IS MORE LIKE A PREVIEW |
| 21 | So a central issue at the meeting was whether a man is more like a dog , a rat , a pig or some other animal in terms of the distribution of endothelin receptors . |
| 22 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
| 23 | The first movement is more like a punishing Lakeland fell race than a spiritually reviving walk through the woods and meadows near Heiligenstadt . |
| 24 | Discourse is more like a moving film , revealing itself in time — sometimes over long periods . |
| 25 | In here , the baby is more like a bomb . |
| 26 | In contrast , the photograph the artist took of herself is more like a still from a film where paradoxically the subject appears to be caught off-guard , indeed caught in the act . |
| 27 | It is again a network but it is more like a computer program flow diagram than either PERT or CPM . |
| 28 | It is again a network but it is more like a computer program flow diagram than either PERT or CPM . |
| 29 | As Hadrian 's villa is much more than a villa , so Diocletian 's palace is more like a town and is also designed as a fortress . |
| 30 | With so many horses off to Cheltenham … the Nicholson challenge is more like a cavalry charge this year … |