Example sentences of "[noun] be like the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But musically at least , you 've moved from Stooges-meets-Beefheart conflagration to something more classically structured : the songs are like the charred and gutted husks of magnificent pop architecture . |
| 2 | His eyes are like the over-tired eyes of an engraver |
| 3 | It is as if we have frozen the beauty or anaesthetized it in an image ; but the images are like the humming birds of a museum case , the real and living beauty is incomparably brighter for those birds are gems that flash their iridiscent colours in a tropical forest . |
| 4 | IN PARTS of Serb-held Bosnia , the results of the two-day referendum on the Vance-Owen peace plan were like the good old days of Russia or China . |
| 5 | The battle is like the tragic acts in a Greek drama — always vital , always offstage . |
| 6 | The air was filled with sublime music and the sound of burning wood was like the soft crackle of melting ice . |
| 7 | The Nant Gwynant Horseshoe on Snowdon is like the Dark Side of the Moon to those hillwalkers who think only of popular ridges like Tryfan or the Glyders . |
| 8 | This process is like the creative process of mind where ideas and images stored in the mind 's vats join together and change through time and become the matter of poetry . |
| 9 | The body was like the surly , recalcitrant electorate of a democratic state , with the mind a nervous , impatient , and ultimately helpless executive . |
| 10 | Black separatism is like the free East Germans choosing to rebuild the Berlin Wall . |
| 11 | So adding mandolin is like the old string band concept — it 's just another bunch of intervals . |
| 12 | Her cries of sorrow and anger were like the fleeting cries of dawn birds , banished from this forbidden place of battle , this Bird Spirit Land … |
| 13 | If conviction in belief is like the authorizing signature on a contract or a cheque , then the person who has no sense of himself will have no ‘ name ’ to sign to what he believes . |
| 14 | We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation . |
| 15 | The pattern is like the magnetic field produced around an electrical conductor going into the plane of the paper . |
| 16 | In a way the proposal that the state of the universe is determined by a sum over only nonsingular histories is like the drunk looking for his key under the lamp-post : It may not be where he lost it , but it is the only place where he might find it . |
| 17 | The different methods employed by social scientists are like the different views of the surgeon and the epidemiologist . |
| 18 | His eyelashes were like the feathery brushes of a model 's compact . |
| 19 | The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupulous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends , and in a callous disregard for the feelings and wishes of others and of the remoter effects of his actions . |
| 20 | Love is like the perfect pearl of the sea , but more precious , a pearl of the transcendent ; it did not come from the earth but from the pollen of the stars and sowed itself here like the seeds of the palms . |
| 21 | The voice was like the soft hissing of a rattlesnake . |
| 22 | In it the king suggested that American plans for the Gulf were like the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 , in which Britain and France carved up Turkey 's former Arab provinces . |
| 23 | The well-fleshed ghosts of my imaginings were like the insistent daimones of classical times who , if neglected , drove their victim to ever-greater follies . |
| 24 | The forest path was like the strange , disorientating setting of a nightmare . |
| 25 | If we imagine the Great Mother as a huge , strong tree , then the childless women are like the very tips of the branches ; they create the tracery of twigs , its outline , while the mothers form the wood that is still growing , their daughters pushing out beyond them into the space around . |
| 26 | The walls had once been beige ; the chairs were like the nasty one beside his bed ; the tables were formica . |
| 27 | Their faces were like the grotesque masks of street carnivals , their clothes the cruel parodies of stamping clowns . |
| 28 | In contrast , trust is like the precious soil in which a relationship can grow and put down secure roots . |
| 29 | Scorn has been poured upon the excessive mourning practised by Victorians , to which even their children and servants were subjected ; but it should be recalled that the badge of mourning was like the tartan of a Highland clan : it symbolised solidarity . |
| 30 | The dead merchant 's skin was like the cold scales of a fish . |