Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | May God help us to be thoroughly like that , this week and for ever ; |
| 2 | There not only does the fish fauna closely resemble that of the Middle Old Red Sandstone in Scotland , but the sediments themselves are said to be exactly like the Thurso Flagstone Group of Caithness . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry to be here like this but I could n't get through to anyone . |
| 4 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 5 | Locust , locust beans they 'd be about that length , they used to be just like a brown bean , they were dry . |
| 6 | he said ( keeping his voice down ; there were people nearby ) , " but I do n't want to be just like a brother to you . " |
| 7 | So the two works are said to be both like one another and unlike . |
| 8 | He felt the change to be rather like ‘ the shedding of an adolescent enthusiasm , . |
| 9 | ‘ To be cultured ’ , it is imagined , is to be rather like a pearl , understated , refined and in the best possible taste . |
| 10 | With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison . |
| 11 | T. W. Graham Solomons 's Organic Chemistry ( Wiley ) was said to be so like Morrison and Boyd that a court case for alleged copying ensued ; but Solomons was cleared . |
| 12 | ‘ Mrs Taylor does not seem to me to be very like Mrs Woolf or Miss Compton-Burnett or Miss Bowen , ’ I had written , for some reviewers thought her too heavily indebted to them . |
| 13 | He thought he would like to be more like her ; when she spoke people listened . |
| 14 | The authors also propose that A-levels and other exams for 16 to 18-year-olds should be reformed to be more like the GCSE . |
| 15 | Shops were empty from panic-buying ahead of Czechoslovakia 's ‘ big bang ’ — which is turning out to be more like a big pop . |
| 16 | It is a paradox too , that because Christianity has been able to drop any mention of the physical cycles of women 's lives , secular culture has ended up with an idea that true liberation means we can forget ‘ those difficult days ’ , and ‘ carry on as normal ’ ; assuming , perhaps , that to be normal is to be more like a man . |
| 17 | I ask myself if I want to be more like the slim women whom I admire than like my own thin body . |
| 18 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 19 | In this case , time needs to be given to establishing such a way of thinking , so that we can see that our very purpose as Christians is. to grow to be more like Christ . |
| 20 | It would seem to be more like a week ! |
| 21 | Praise can often disguise the sub-text ‘ I want to be more like you , and I am envious of what you have . ’ |
| 22 | While worldwide , he anticipates that revenues will increase by between 15% and 20% , he expects this to be more like 27% to 30% in the UK . |
| 23 | In consequence some human beings appear to be more like Jesus ( who is simply equated with God ) than are others , in that they share his maleness . |
| 24 | The historical process is therefore likely to be more like a shifting see-saw as the balance of development switches between different regions . |
| 25 | The dilemma which arose from the modern sculptor , was summed up by Marion Spielmann in British Sculptors and Sculptors of Today ( 1901 ) ‘ The present aim is to give life without actual realism — a suggestion of reality shrouded in poetry and grace … our artists understand that if the figures are to be more like the human form the statues must be unconscious of their absence of drapery as though they were symbols — which indeed they are ’ . |
| 26 | However , it could be that the Gulf war turns out to be more like Vietnam than Korea . |
| 27 | If the child in the cradle on whom Carabosse lays her curse after the other fairy godmothers have given her everything that makes a girl lovable could have understood the ordinary life she was forfeiting , she would have renounced their fairy boons ; given the choice , Caterina would have rejected her charms too , in order to be closer to her sister , to be more like Rosa . |
| 28 | Icon Hear-It is the perfect solution for PC users who want their business-like IBM compatible to be more like an Apple Macintosh . |
| 29 | Did he want him to be more like McEllhoney ? |
| 30 | I wanted to be more like them after I met them . |