Example sentences of "is [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is to say this : among possible worlds where it is raining , the one which overall is most like our actual world is also one in which the balcony is wet . |
| 2 | The industrial tribunals represent the tribunals whose practice and procedure is most like that of the courts . |
| 3 | but Helena , from , the Mystery of Edwin Drood I think Jane is most like Helen Huntingdon . |
| 4 | She is rather like a lyric author herself , a bit of a lyre . |
| 5 | Which is rather like saying that slum-dwellers would rather live in the slums than anywhere else — there they are in the slums , are n't they ? |
| 6 | Few of us , driven by the irrepressible instincts of the Stone Age , are capable of recognising that shifting your hedge is rather like moving the sitting room furniture around . |
| 7 | The effect is rather like an extended advertisement for Marlboro Lights . |
| 8 | It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote . |
| 9 | This is rather like growing up and buying your parents . |
| 10 | Buying a dinghy of your own is rather like buying a car . |
| 11 | It is rather like warfare , the seesaw of offensive and defensive , of tank armour and the high-velocity penetrating bullet . |
| 12 | Not that he was playing any flash lead parts but to keep a strong rhythm part going and sing at the same time is rather like having to twiddle both your thumbs in opposite directions at the same time . |
| 13 | The effect is rather like a newspaper carrying blank columns where items have been banned . |
| 14 | This is rather like the moment in Lewis 's life when he described philosophy as a subject and Barfield replied that to Plato , philosophy was not a subject but a way . |
| 15 | Putting an exact figure on Britain 's NAIRU is rather like chasing a mirage , but changes in unemployment and inflation give clues to its general area . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've often thought that each person is rather like a different vessel out at sea . |
| 17 | I do n't mind ; it is rather like being a little girl again . |
| 18 | Her life really was that of one of the anawim , the ‘ little ones ’ of God — and the distaste that many of us feel for her is rather like a similar distaste for Thérèse of Lisieux . |
| 19 | Asking someone who has been closely associated with garden flowers for more than 50 years to name his favourite one is rather like asking King Solomon to name his favourite wife — I love then all ! |
| 20 | The BBC is rather like a cross between the Church of England and the Post Office . |
| 21 | I think the BBC has a system of promotion which is rather like the way in which people are made prefects at school . |
| 22 | ‘ It is rather like the older generation 's fascination with the Royal Family . ’ |
| 23 | It is rather like the older generation 's fascination with the Royal Family , ’ he added . |
| 24 | THIS ANTHOLOGY of soccer writing — or , in some cases , writing which incorporates soccer — is rather like those games in which one side is a Rest of the World XI or a Football League XI . |
| 25 | To get rid of such furniture because it happens not to fit into present arrangements is rather like pulling down one wing of the house concerned just because it is not for the moment in use . |
| 26 | Labour today is rather like a car company whose models have acquired a reputation for unreliability . |
| 27 | The hoist is rather like a ski-chair with a bar in front of the patient , and may be attached to the side of the bath . |
| 28 | House-buying is rather like drinking wine . |
| 29 | It is rather like looking for a single straw in a haystack . |
| 30 | Buying a second-hand board is rather like the second-hand car or computer market in that there are plenty of bargains but unless you are careful you can be ripped off . |