Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen the little plastic bowls of grey water at the back of the hot-dog stall in which the woman rinsed her horrible cloth ; she knew what the lavatories in the park were like . |
| 2 | The majority were like that . |
| 3 | The boiler was like an upright wooden barrel banded with copper . |
| 4 | According to Martin Scorsese , who you might expect to know about such things , going to the cinema is like taking drugs . |
| 5 | And that 's what the heart is like in heart failure . |
| 6 | The Christian is like an athlete in training ( 1 Cor. |
| 7 | Since merely knowing the brain state does not reveal what the experience is like , and since what the experience is like , if it is a reality at all ( which Tye does not dispute ) , must be a fact about the experience ( or a feature or aspect of the experience , which will do just as well ) , it follows that the experience is not a brain state . |
| 8 | Since merely knowing the brain state does not reveal what the experience is like , and since what the experience is like , if it is a reality at all ( which Tye does not dispute ) , must be a fact about the experience ( or a feature or aspect of the experience , which will do just as well ) , it follows that the experience is not a brain state . |
| 9 | If they are symptoms of leprosy , then we are indeed ‘ fortunate ’ to know what the experience is like . |
| 10 | The experience is like entering the catacombs and I would n't have been the least surprised to have come across the odd skull or two in this formidable kind of Davey Jones ' locker . |
| 11 | I put them on the chairs , here in front of the fire , to dry nut and the kitchen was like a steam-bath all winter . ’ |
| 12 | The tension in the kitchen was like an electric current . |
| 13 | My legs are shaded by the dust which has gathered over the past few days , so that the contrast is like a Coppertone ad , with the puppy pulling a little girl 's knickers off . |
| 14 | Walking through the Rorim was like living a medieval pageant . |
| 15 | Sirens are wailing , and the shouting is like at Millwall when the team 's gone to sleep . |
| 16 | The building was like a hotel . |
| 17 | The hair is like Apollo 's , and it is particularly in the incisive detail of the head that one sees how much one loses in the marble . |
| 18 | ‘ The West is like London only worse . |
| 19 | Hot pesto bread sounded good , but the pesto was like mayonnaise . |
| 20 | The noise is like kindling crackling . |
| 21 | The noise was like a factory . |
| 22 | The noise was like thunder , painfully loud but somehow indistinct . |
| 23 | And it used to roar , you can imagine what the noise was like in the chapel . |
| 24 | Next door neighbour Susan Hanley told Judge Peter Fox QC the noise was like ‘ a psychological form of torture ’ . |
| 25 | All examples show similar characteristics ; they are generally stone vaulted — an unusual feature in so early a period and rare in southern Europe — the majority have cupolas supported on squinches and/or intersecting barrel vaults ; the stonework is solid but crude ; ornament generally includes interlacing in bands of carving on stone borders and the patterns are made up from circles , diamonds or zig-zags — the interlacing is like a prototype of the later Romanesque basket work patterns . |
| 26 | Dr Ting 's proposal for the SSC was like L3 but bigger . |
| 27 | The assessment is like assembling a jigsaw into which pieces fit with some inevitability . |
| 28 | Rather than an archaeologist engaged in reconstitution of broken pictures , the enquirer is like the secretary to a historiographical commission which never meets , and which evolves its consensus through bilateral talks with an outsider . |
| 29 | But one local cockle collector said the tension was like ‘ a timebomb ’ . |
| 30 | One local cockle collector said the tension was like a ‘ time-bomb ’ . |