Example sentences of "be [pron] like the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 2 | Now that particular force if they 're anything like the other forces that I deal with , ai n't under the stresses and strains that we are . |
| 3 | Answering questions at a meeting with foreign journalists , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ We are looking at a scheme to have some people from Hong Kong , but it could n't be anything like the total number . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If she has , dear Mrs Pargeter ’ — Fosdyke was being almost intolerably gallant — ‘ he ca n't be anything like the great Haverford Downs . ’ |
| 5 | Were nothing like the real thing |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 7 | Ach , there 's nothing like the primitive life , is there ? ’ |
| 8 | There 's nothing like the soft texture and colour of old fabrics : learn to use and take care of them . ’ |
| 9 | Never mind the sequels , there 's nothing like the original and the proudest treasure in the archives of the Oxford University Press remains this early edition of Samuel Johnson 's very first English dictionary . |
| 10 | This is a superficially attractive theory , but the proposed phoneme is nothing like the other phonemes we have identified up to this point — putting it simply , it does n't have any sound . |
| 11 | Traditionalists may huff and puff and say there is nothing like the real thing ; aesthetes may deplore the destruction of mystery ; but for most of us it proves as enthralling as exploring a maze . |
| 12 | In other words , a classical " solar system " atom under electromagnetic forces is nothing like the actual solar system held together by gravitational forces . |
| 13 | If she is ever going to learn to stand on her own feet finally , when her grieving is over , she will need your acceptance , for the time being , that what she is experiencing now is something like the intense suffering of a child separated from the security of its mother 's presence , with all the feelings of fear and panic that brings . |
| 14 | ‘ Copper Blue ’ has a more upbeat fictional stories — Man On The Moon is almost like a limerick or something from a children 's book — but on the other hand there 's something like The Slim , which might be the harshest thing I 've ever written . |
| 15 | But the school dinner she was wolfing down was nothing like the standard favourite of baked beans , burgers and ice-cream . |
| 16 | Barely five feet four and dressed in sensible shoes , blue silky dress and yellow sash , she was nothing like the glittering bimbos in stilettos and the quietly elegant wives of the money men sitting all around us . |
| 17 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 18 | But I see there 's blood sausage , ’ he said , and sent them such a terrible leery grin , that Snodgrass , who had been cutting himself a slice from this , which he had innocently thought was something like the spicy Renascian liver-and-wine-roll , recoiled and snatched his hand back as if he had been burnt . |