Example sentences of "[is] like those " in BNC.
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| 1 | A house of sin you may call it , but not a house of darkness for the candles are never out , and it is like those countries far in the north where it is as clear at mid-night as at mid-day … |
| 2 | Labour is losing in the 1990s because it is like those 19th-century Liberals . |
| 3 | It is like those cases where women were , perhaps are , discriminated against because they were not ‘ strong ’ enough for a job or part of a job ; but most people would prefer for such a task a strapping wench to a seven-stone male weakling , who gets the sand kicked into his eyes by the beach bully , courtesy of the Charles Atlas advert . |
| 4 | I suppose it is like those astrology charts that appear in the newspaper . |
| 5 | It 's like those alien stories where hapless travellers are beamed up by future scientists from other worlds . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's like those lizards . ’ |
| 7 | It 's like those lizards . |
| 8 | It 's like those dolls . |
| 9 | It 's like those one-handed arpeggios … |
| 10 | ‘ It 's like those pesky jelly strings in eggs that stick between your teeth — really monstrous ones from an egg the size of a mountain ! |
| 11 | I think it 's it 's like those candies there 's lots of little things you know which people are buying . |
| 12 | It 's like those bags I mean le I mean I 'd go if they bought me one of those bags . |
| 13 | Well it 's like those lads that time who tried to nick a snooker table , they got it , they got it about a hundred yards |
| 14 | Yes , well that 's all very well when they know ho , well it 's like those erm computer things is n't it ? |