Example sentences of "[conj] are like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 2 | Of course , I assume that you have feelings similar to mine , and I also assume that animals which are reasonably like us have feelings that are like ours . |
| 3 | She rams a power drill into the ear of her baby doll while going through appalling ‘ cute ’ histrionics that are like Kate Bush with a soiled nappy and a gallon of helium . |
| 4 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 5 | In most of these universes the conditions would not be right for the development of complicated organisms ; only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question : " why is the universe the way we see it ? " |
| 6 | Well some people that are like me , but there ai n't that much fat , that says right , we can now afford to , you know , that person 's er , er , you know got a lot of free time , there ai n't any of them any more is there ? |
| 7 | You sees like cutting , you know you see these walls that are like that and they sort of go down like that and join a pillar and do the same again , just , instead of doing that you lay the soldiers across the top and you , you 've got to sort of cut the bricks in between ai n't ya ? |
| 8 | In many ways they have processes that are like us . |
| 9 | Now we do have some dresses that are like that , but the ordinary ones , I think were made in , because she needed a new dress and she needed it pretty soon , so some of the sewing is just terrible . |
| 10 | These bonds are more subtle than gossamer strands of spiders in the grass and are like the fields of force of electricity or gravity . |
| 11 | The fry hatch in around 30 hours and are like black slivers of wood as they hang tail down in the bubbles of the nest . |
| 12 | I enjoy my job and I have some friends who work with me. and are like my brother and sister . |
| 13 | There are also some high calorie biscuits , which taste pretty disgusting and are like cardboard . ’ |