Example sentences of "[be] [adv] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian Church has always had a good many professing members who are rather like those disciples at Ephesus who , when asked by Paul , ‘ Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? ’ replied , ‘ No , we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit ’ ( Acts 19:2 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 4 | Their demands are much like those of the ill-fated Democratic Platform — reformers who quit the party but failed to organise themselves into a workable opposition . |
| 5 | The heads of these charming horsemen are so like that of the boxer that one might think his was the stele this base supported . |
| 6 | Some people are naturally like that though are n't they ? |
| 7 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 8 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 9 | And you know there are a lot of Christians today who are just like that . |
| 10 | Only a few demos have a specific product in mind — most are just like these … |
| 11 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
| 12 | They 're so like those in Mother Jacobsen 's cottage . ’ |
| 13 | You talk tough but inside you 're just like all the rest of us . |
| 14 | You 're just like all the rest . ’ |
| 15 | We pull together when the need arises , but when Jo and Charles think I 'm okay they 're just like any other children , just as naughty . |
| 16 | Actually they 're fifties maisonettes in the city 's East End , there 's nothing satanic about them , they 're just like any block of flats you 've ever seen , only worse . |
| 17 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 18 | When you work these square root things out , whatever square root is , it 's always one , like one plus three , minus five , the other one 's minus three plus five , they 're always like that . |
| 19 | but I , they 're nowhere like that . |
| 20 | Perhaps the little blue exters thought humans are always like that . |
| 21 | Erm you might think that all graphs always look like that , or bits of graphs are always like that , or where does it all tie in ? |
| 22 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 23 | Apart from the evidence of reduced sexual interest in familiar members of the opposite sex , which I have already mentioned , the great mass of data shows that freely chosen human spouses are more like each other than would be expected on a chance basis . |
| 24 | Indeed , the norms and manners of Londoners may be closer to those of people in Boston , Mass. than in Belfast ; and if customs and ideas in Birmingham are rather different from those in , say , Barcelona , they are more like those in Barcelona today than in Birmingham when its oldest inhabitant was born . |
| 25 | I had said that the world in 1984 will not be much like that in Orwell 's novel . |
| 26 | But for one Chilean exile , Andres Valenzuela , Thursday will be much like any other day — long , boring and lonely . |
| 27 | Instead she almost dreamily let her fingers trail over Julius 's smooth and supple skin , she felt the hard heat of him against her palms , and it was astonishing how right it seemed that they should be together like this . |
| 28 | I ca n't guarantee it will be exactly like that , but you must have got the picture . |
| 29 | Let others have felt this way , let them feel it now ; it would never be exactly like this , never be identical . |
| 30 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |