Example sentences of "of [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 . |