Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guernsey 's horns today are more commonly like those of the Isigny but perhaps the smaller Alderney owed little to the Isigny and more to the Léon . |
| 2 | In style , however , they are more usually like those of Serbia . |
| 3 | However , success will always be limited until we are able to provide materials that are far more like those they are replacing . |
| 4 | Some people are simply just like that . ’ |
| 5 | Earlier Cabinets were much more like that ’ , said one senior official shortly before Michael Heseltine converted semi-covert insider objections to the Thatcher style into a glowing neon sign . |
| 6 | The effect of these personal remarks spoken in Creole is thus rather like that of the " jocular " refusals ; potentially insulting on the face of it , but in fact treated by all participants as not serious and non-threatening . |
| 7 | Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ? |
| 8 | She 's just , I mean you know how people do , I mean I do n't , she 's not doing it nastily I mean she 's just naturally like that I think and erm yeah I just thought she 's bound do , yeah she could get off with someone else . |
| 9 | Cos it 's like basically like that and we all went down . |
| 10 | This may seem a ridiculous assumption but , where there is an unvarying food supply , nature 's response is often somewhat like this . |
| 11 | But his choreography is no longer like that of earlier demi-caractère styles such as that of the Chinese dance in The Nutcracker . |
| 12 | The system 's recent flexibility is too much like that of a tent in a hurricane , and about as reassuring . |
| 13 | Ss 4 and 5 contain provisions under which a charity can be required to change its name if it is too much like another 's , or is misleading in other ways . |
| 14 | At their regular dinners together , a former whip recalls , ‘ the atmosphere is very much like that at a second-rate public school or a duff regiment . ’ |
| 15 | In other words , we act as if the brain of one species is very much like that of another . |
| 16 | Thus far , the functioning of the eye is very much like that of a camera . |
| 17 | Charles is very much like that on the phone , you ca n't get a conversation out of him |
| 18 | A tree line at 11,5000 feet ( compared with 5,500 in Europe ) gives the American Rocky Mountain resorts an unfamiliar uniformity : the runs are carved out of the forest , making for excellent visibility in bad weather ( in itself commendably rare ) , but you can get the feeling that one glade is very much like another . |
| 19 | We may not be very interested in tracing the history of collisions a given atom has with other atoms , as one atom is very much like another . |
| 20 | ‘ Once you get out of the sight of land , one bit of sea is very much like another , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 21 | It had been content to leave the service arrangements to a network of service engineers who serviced other makes of machine as well as those provided by Argent Distributors ( on the premise that one machine is very much like another ) and Argent Distributors carried and provided the stock of spare parts that were unique to their machines . |
| 22 | Yeah yeah it 's very much like that . |
| 23 | were almost erm okay just like that , I mean there were one or two very good ones , I think there was one that was just about like that with the odd word and when an editor receives something like you , you know , it 's usually going to be something he wants to change very slightly , erm that , those were the best ones , there were in general however you have n't yet got used to the idea of editing . |
| 24 | The day was chosen at random , and although subjectively it felt like quite a difficult one , apart from the fact that staff were asked to complete personal diaries , it was potentially just like any other . |
| 25 | The mosquitoes had already arrived in force and made us feel as if one trench was very much like another . |