Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [modal v] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smells travel well under water , though what the experience of underwater scents may be like is open to imagination . |
| 2 | But one has to be careful , a piece of derelict land can be like a magnet in attracting further dereliction . |
| 3 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 4 | The symptoms of toxoplasmosis for healthy adults may be like mild flu , but often there are no symptoms . |
| 5 | Telling her not to speak to strange men would be like asking if the Pope was free on Sunday . |
| 6 | With the issue of how Scotland is governed now dominating politics north of the border , Labour MPs are convinced that such a move by Liberal Democrats would be like turkeys voting for Christmas — the description employed by Callaghan of the Liberals who threatened to break the Lib-Lab pact . |