Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speeches were really like a competition to see , who could manipulate and how they used their power . |
| 2 | I soon realized that if one reversed the direction of time in Penrose 's theorem , so that the collapse became an expansion , the conditions of his theorem would still hold , provided the universe were roughly like a Friedmann model on large scales at the present time . |
| 3 | At the beginning of this century it was thought that atoms were rather like the planets orbiting the sun , with electrons ( particles of negative electricity ) orbiting around a central nucleus , which carried positive electricity . |
| 4 | Indeed , the changes were very like the effects of irradiation with X- or ultra-violet rays , but this time they were being produced by a chemical instead of a physical agent . |
| 5 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 6 | But if a writer were more like a reader , he 'd be a reader , not a writer : it 's as uncomplicated as that . |
| 7 | M. B. In those days , the police were almost like an élite force because if you joined , people would say : ‘ He 's joined the police . |