Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [modal v] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social worker will be like a skilled ‘ friend ’ to them , who can help them in many areas of their life , perhaps by suggesting ways of overcoming loneliness by putting them in contact with the type of activity , club , Day Centre or workshop that would interest them , and arranging suitable transport for this ; or , if they are not particularly keen on group social activities , sometimes by finding individual volunteers to visit them and take them out ; although it should be remembered that no social worker or voluntary visitor can ever be a real substitute for care from their own family . |
| 2 | But one has to be careful , a piece of derelict land can be like a magnet in attracting further dereliction . |
| 3 | Early on , they imagined that all foster parents would be like them — not so rich perhaps , but sharing the same basic standards . |
| 4 | So a typical card might be like this . |
| 5 | You 've really got to be one to appreciate the spirit of the place but pop in to see what a real pub should be like . |
| 6 | It is intended to research , firstly , the changing expectations that have been held of the physical environment and to consider just what both official bodies and NGOs think an appropriate environment should be like . |
| 7 | The real end must be like counting one then two then three . |
| 8 | No matter what the individual records might be like in themselves , the ten studio albums , two live LPs and two compilations represent a major body of work . |
| 9 | With the issue of how Scotland is governed now dominating politics north of the border , Labour MPs are convinced that such a move by Liberal Democrats would be like turkeys voting for Christmas — the description employed by Callaghan of the Liberals who threatened to break the Lib-Lab pact . |
| 10 | And perhaps real death would be like that for the body , the final sinking and rest home of a pulsing star . |
| 11 | Before the Russian revolution of October ( November ) 1917 , very few Marxists were prepared to talk or write , in any other than the most general terms , on what the outline of a future socialist society would be like , or discuss the nature of the transition period to such a society . |
| 12 | ‘ I was told once that a good vintage should be like a woman — full-bodied and generous . |
| 13 | Suppose the reformer stops saying that a good woman may be like God and begins saying that God is like a good woman . |
| 14 | Still , in reality no black hole would be like this ideal : stars spin on their axes , and so the black holes they produce can be expected to do likewise . |
| 15 | The symptoms of toxoplasmosis for healthy adults may be like mild flu , but often there are no symptoms . |
| 16 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 17 | I well recall the Opposition saying , ’ If you wish to see what a Labour Government would be like , look at Labour local government . ’ |
| 18 | Traditional Socialist values , notably egalitarianism , remain but , as Roy Hattersley frequently complains , Labour as a party has not embodied them in policies — or even slogans — that enunciate a clear vision of what a Labour Britain would be like . |
| 19 | … and my right-hand Moderatus controls a power-fist for close quarter work , for scooping and crushing those miniscule Marines whose explosive bolts will be like stings … |
| 20 | It was difficult , in any of this , to discover what a future socialist or communist society would be like ; if there was consensus about anything it was that it would not be based upon public ownership , would not be dominated by a single ruling party , would not supersede capitalism and might not even offer an alternative to it . |
| 21 | Telling her not to speak to strange men would be like asking if the Pope was free on Sunday . |
| 22 | We might then be able to work back from lifestyle and abilities to predict what the brain of a particular species should be like ( Legg 1983 ) . |
| 23 | They each address themselves to the reader 's understanding of what a just society should be like : they are publicly political writings . |
| 24 | He realized now what solitary confinement must be like and wondered how people could survive months , even years of it . |
| 25 | Are they about what the new settlement should be like , if so is that an appropriate consideration for the structure plan . |
| 26 | She did wonder what her new bridegroom would be like . |
| 27 | But she looked back to her own childhood and wondered where she had got the idea that she knew what a normal family would be like . |
| 28 | Smells travel well under water , though what the experience of underwater scents may be like is open to imagination . |
| 29 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 30 | ‘ You are saying that if it were possible to remove a fertilized egg cell from a woman after she had conceived , you could examine it and say what the resulting child would be like ? ’ |