Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A moral life without reference to religion is like a house built on sand . |
| 2 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 3 | Lazing on a gleaming deck , the water lapping gently against the side is like a lullaby and I manage only 15 pages of Frederick Forsyth before succumbing to the pleasures of a hot Ontario sun . |
| 4 | Murder is like a game of hazard . |
| 5 | My mind is like a stage , with the actors , their costumes , props , scripts and agents all streaming on from stage right . |
| 6 | The mind is like a vat in which time works on all the ideas and changes them . |
| 7 | Oh my god his mind 's like a sieve . |
| 8 | The car 's like an oven inside . ’ |
| 9 | Each contribution in the field of biblical research is like a footprint in sand . |
| 10 | The effect is like a courtier in a tatty second-hand livery : the intention grand , but the actual impression tawdry , almost ridiculous . |
| 11 | The effect is like a frog swelling its neck . |
| 12 | His puffy mouth is like a boxing glove , |
| 13 | Marriage is like a journey in a boat . |
| 14 | His gaze is like a star , that can not see , |
| 15 | For the keen sportsman , the village is like a holiday dream come true . |
| 16 | Dis poetry is like a riddim dat drops |
| 17 | ‘ Noddy ’ is the name given to a group of tropical terns whose plumage is like a negative of the more familiar shades of white body with a dark cap to the head . |
| 18 | Each gothic window is like an ironing board . |
| 19 | Stone does not go this far , although he can not resist quoting an Irish opponent of divorce during the referendum campaign of 1986 to the effect that ‘ a woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for Christmas ’ ( p. 420 ) . |
| 20 | Auntie 's laugh is like a man 's laugh — deep and loud . |
| 21 | Denys Zacharopoulos , one of its three curators , says : ‘ The museum is like a voodoo fetish , the artist a sorcerer but also a prisoner ’ |
| 22 | ‘ This equipment is like a lighthouse sweeping up the hydrocarbons from all around it , ’ he said . |
| 23 | By the time they become experienced buyers , they will realise that the partnership between them and the lender is like a marriage — it 's not that easily broken ! |
| 24 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 25 | ‘ Howie 's like a lot of them up here , ’ he says . |
| 26 | The plain is like a field of poppies , with the flowers growing most thickly near the river . |
| 27 | A good colourist is like a juggler with ten balls in the air at once and able to catch them all . |
| 28 | This place is like a labyrinth , she thought with a sudden shiver , as yet another door opened in front of her . |
| 29 | This place is like a morgue . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Bloody place is like a morgue nowadays . ’ |