Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first important facet of this inside story is teachers ' own view of what they would wish the job to be like . |
| 2 | " No need to be like this . |
| 3 | Fatty : There 's no need to be like that ! |
| 4 | There 's no need to be like that ! |
| 5 | At around two years , there is another driving force pushing her towards independence : the desire to be like everyone else . |
| 6 | What can I expect my hotel room to be like ? |
| 7 | She once put a jar in the middle of the table , in the light , and said she wanted her heroine to be like that ; her novels create just such memorable images , not static , but still , like remembered paintings . |
| 8 | Is the goal of an overweight person to be like the picture of a slim person such as we have just described ? |
| 9 | One author denounced the Convention for making William King without making it " impossible for that king to be like the kings that went before him " ; another condemned the members of the Convention because |
| 10 | Hilton 's uneducated disciple , however , is learning at this stage that the goal of the contemplative life is a remaking of the self to be like God through a loving practice , and thus knowledge , of goodness : Such contemplation is experienced as a gift which lifts the conscious effort to know and love God into an activity of delight which expresses the whole man : Although this goal is thus acknowledged from the start , the rest of the book is devoted to the means by which the contemplative can work towards it . |
| 11 | He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it . |
| 12 | She wanted life to be like it had been earlier that evening . |
| 13 | The thing most people fear when they retire , is being dragooned into playing bingo and having sing-songs , but there 's no need for life to be like that . |
| 14 | This is done here , partly directly , as in the injunction to be like the serpent , and partly indirectly , in her perversion of such words as ‘ milk ’ or ‘ nature ’ , Her parting injunction to him is to ‘ look up clear ’ ( 71 ) , ‘ clear ’ meaning ‘ innocent , spotless ’ : the stress must fall on the verb , ‘ look ’ or ‘ seem , . |
| 15 | ca n't never that filter to be like that have you ? |
| 16 | Figure 10 shows what Janos Szentagothai , a famous Hungarian neuro-anatomist , conceived the neocortex to be like ten years ago . |