Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [modal v] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | My passion is for its numerous Romanesque churches , in most cases humbly proportioned but elevated into unique works of art by the richness of their exquisitely-sculpted decoration ; to go to Poitou/Saintonge and not look at any of its churches would be like going to an African game reserve and ignoring the animals . |
| 2 | The lordship in question is the novelist 's , not only in the usual sense , often forgotten , that every word of the novel is his , but also because the speech of its characters can be like that of the narrator , and indeed like that of the writer of Kingsley Amis 's discursive prose . |
| 3 | She was — ; not ashamed of him — but outraged that one of her children should be like that . |
| 4 | Jonathan Gershuny , now a Professor at the University of Bath and previously a colleague of Chris Freeman at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , takes a particularly optimistic view of what work will be like in the future ( Gershuny 1978 ) . |
| 5 | ( If the expression ‘ form of life ’ is found puzzling , think of what life would be like if we never asked people to do or not to do things , never apologised for doing or not doing things , and so on . ) |
| 6 | This is a foretaste of what things will be like — if the polls are correct — over the next five years . |
| 7 | Over the next 18 months the inquiry will produce Labour 's vision of what inner-cities should be like . |
| 8 | Over the next 18 months the inquiry will produce Labour 's vision of what inner-cities should be like . |
| 9 | We get some glimpse of what conditions would be like without water by observing modern deserts , which commonly fluctuate from +45°C to around zero , in the course of twelve hours ! |
| 10 | We 'd already come to know rapping via The Sugarhill Gang 's success a couple of years before , but this was a novel thing , a glimpse of what music would be like in the future . |
| 11 | It was n't only the thought of what Liti would be like when they were alone . |
| 12 | Spending time with your bass should be like spending time with a good friend . |
| 13 | ‘ The author in his book must be like God in his universe , everywhere present and nowhere visible . ’ |
| 14 | The problems are ones of ethics , which in turn come down to public attitudes to what life would be like with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 15 | I do n't suppose for one moment she has given a thought to what life might be like if she had to ‘ make do ’ married to someone who was n't too well off . |
| 16 | Adrian Henri ponders on what life would be like without his loved one — how colourless , dull and ordinary it would seem . |
| 17 | Now that 's what actually happens , there 's a there 's a dialectical interaction between people 's ideas about what society should be like and the changes that are actually going on around them . |
| 18 | He had often been on duty at the hospital , and then Comfort and Julia would lie on long cushioned chairs on the terrace , breathing in the lemon scent of the immense magnolia that sprawled up the old red brick of the house and talking about him and about what life might be like when they all left Oxford . |
| 19 | We must look at what people would be like outside of , and prior to , civil society . |
| 20 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |