Example sentences of "is like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 2 | But erm so being in hospital two years and then I was in St Giles for eighteen months , which is like Stoke Mandeville |
| 3 | This is like cocktail bar bit |
| 4 | ‘ Having too many children is like smoking , ’ said one to me . |
| 5 | ‘ Having too many children is like smoking , ’ said one to me . |
| 6 | And I have a passion for acting and the truth of acting which is like life to me . |
| 7 | Telepathy is like empathy , except the message is less generalised and more specific . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life . |
| 9 | Apples of gold referred to in the Bible — ‘ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver ’ — are thought to have been apricots which abounded in the Holy Land and were introduced into Palestine from Armenia . |
| 10 | Kant 's approach to ethics is like utilitarianism ( at least in certain versions ) in just one way . |
| 11 | A plot without Nancy is like chips without salt . |
| 12 | In this sense he is like Mrs Ghandi , who as India 's prime minister ordered the attack on the Sikh Golden Temple and was later murdered by her Sikh bodyguard : having desecrated the holiest places of a fierce and unforgiving religion , Saddam 's life is potentially in danger from every Shiite he comes into contact with . |
| 13 | ‘ This is like home , ’ Bjaaland thought . |
| 14 | That is because as a racing team , Ferrari is like Britain before the Norman Conquest : a bunch of fiefdoms , with all sorts of lesser people shoving against each other for power in a small factory where there is n't any ultimate power to be had : at least not until the Grand Old Man goes . |
| 15 | This sacrifice of Antonio for Bassanio is like Jesus who ‘ gave his body for us ’ . |
| 16 | Erm and the place is like Fort Knox at the moment , cos it 's got double sort of ten lever locks on every door , because somebody was pilfering from there , |
| 17 | But you know perhaps it is like shopping . |
| 18 | ‘ Responsibility is like income tax , VAT , string vests , open-toed sandals worn with socks , tights and grubby bra straps — one of the great anti-aphrodisiacs . |
| 19 | So playing with patents is like poker . |
| 20 | John Gorman says it 's a nice change for the club and good for team spirit … the pitch is like wembley and should suit Swindon |
| 21 | This is like Royalty here . |
| 22 | Erm it 's a community isolation because is like mountains around which makes barriers against physical mobility that ca n't really be moved round that easily . |
| 23 | Unlike Napoleon III , who believed that diplomacy could , if skilfully handled , bring results without war — and this in spite of his failures to make this work in 1854 and 1859 — Bismarck held with Frederick the Great that : ‘ Diplomacy without war is like music without instruments . ’ |
| 24 | It is like expert power in that it can only be exercised if others recognise and accept it . |
| 25 | The assembly and dispersal of the ch'i in the T'ai-hsü ( ‘ Supreme Void ’ ) is like ice congealing and melting in water |
| 26 | It is like poetry : some people do not believe in its existence at all , others argue over whether certain arrangements of words are poetry or not : these zodiacs are as it were topographical poems , a poetic geography akin to legendary history , Like legends , with which they often link up , these poems in the landscape give an identity to a place , a personality which may especially be lacking in the urban wasteland of an area like the suburbs of London , so that the place is no longer just somewhere in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere . |
| 27 | ‘ It is like Nero throwing Christians to the lions and then promising them a grievance procedure , ’ he said . |
| 28 | You ca n't tell yours is like sandpaper . |
| 29 | Finished it all , and then , I just decided then I sorted out my washing , and then I decided what part I was gon na do , I 'd narrowed it down to either topic , task or topic erm , stable features , which are , sort of , erm , self confidence and things , and erm , how you you express yourself , and then a third one is like sex an and gender and age . |
| 30 | ‘ Absenteeism is like fungus . |