Example sentences of "than like " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the verse is accordingly irregular and gnarled and yet sappy , far more like growing timber than like steel rails . |
| 2 | He seems to invite us to think of the circle as something which embodies , or is a continuing expression of , the motions which generate it ; and this involves our thinking of those motions in a way which makes them less like efficient causes than like formal causes , at least as Aristotle intended them . |
| 3 | I ask myself if I want to be more like the slim women whom I admire than like my own thin body . |
| 4 | I more than like him , I love him . |
| 5 | Centromeres are portions of the DNA that hold the two halves of a divided chromosome together , and it is reasonable to suppose that the centromeres of a given species would be more like one another than like the centromeres of another species . |
| 6 | He liked her , you could n't help but like her , but he wished in this moment it was in him to more than like her . |
| 7 | Chamberlain obviously thought the King should be dealt with more like the Poplar Board of Guardians than like Hitler . |
| 8 | They 're really curled up more than like a normal baby are n't they , they 're all sort of , you know , foetal position . |
| 9 | It was an alarming and not very attractive event in which the Bisus were treated more like circus whores than like priests , yet retained a touchingly self-possessed dignity , despite the ragging they received from their " flock " and the abuse to which they subjected themselves with their own blades . |
| 10 | The genes , as we shall see , are more like a recipe than like a blueprint ; and a recipe , moreover , that is obeyed not by the developing embryo as a whole , but by each cell or each local cluster of dividing cells . |