Example sentences of "it be like the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or would it be like the British poll tax , with rich and poor paying the same subject to a complicated system of rebates ? |
| 2 | It 's like the stupid things that I tried to do once myself with that great pope of Velasquez . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's like the Labour Party . |
| 4 | For those of us who ca n't make Goodison I think R5 has full commentary on the match … infact they interviewed Wilko last night who was saying that he had n't thought about whether or not anyone could catch Scum , but he was only interested in how many points we could get ‘ it 's like the Grand National ’ , he said , ‘ plenty of favourites fall the seconf time round ’ . |
| 5 | It 's like the specific immune defence response in human bodies . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's like the Russian steppes . |
| 7 | ‘ This is our biggest game so far — it 's like the traditional Old Firm games , or Juventus against Milan . ’ |
| 8 | When we mean never we say tomorrow morning — it 's like the Spanish saying mañana . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's like the Great Fire of London , 1666 . ’ |
| 10 | It 's like the bloody crops . ’ |
| 11 | It 's like the bloody alms houses in here ai n't it ? |
| 12 | It 's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima . |
| 13 | It 's like the little boy who 's got a toy , he do n't wan na share it , do n't wan na share it , if forced to share it , he 'll smash it rather than let somebody else have a go with it . |
| 14 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |
| 15 | It 's like the little one said last , she said , can we come and stay here for the weekend you know , and stay up in Aunty Bonnie 's room , they call upstairs , and Margaret 's face she said , well er , my god she 's got some good stuff up there you know , furniture |
| 16 | I 've just rung up to see , I was gon na ask Jo to nip out and get me a cake and see if the advert was in , but it do it does n't actually come out , it 's like the local Chronicle here , it comes out on a Thursday night |
| 17 | Some of their comments , it 's like the untutored eye , they pick out things that surprise you because you 've got so used to a particular manner of approaching images , that you forget that there are other ways of doing it . |
| 18 | It 's like the Big Bang theory of the universe . |
| 19 | I mean the Sierra , it 's a good offer on the Sierra but it 's , it 's like the basic engine and I do like a car that you know , you can put your foot down and it |
| 20 | Do you think it 's like the mathematical conundrum where you keep halving the distance to your goal , but you never actually arrive ? |
| 21 | But it 's like the residential school ones like from and places like that . |
| 22 | It 's like the fucking Wild West . |
| 23 | It 's like the fucking stores here in n it eh ? |
| 24 | She 's with the girl who 's in that series but it 's like the American one with she 's got a male housekeeper and she it 's duri , it 's ju it 's only a comedy in the afternoon . |
| 25 | The rank and file pointed out that even skilled workshop men earned only 12 million roubles , but administrative heads got 45 million : ‘ it 's like the old monarchical structure . ’ |
| 26 | It 's like the old showbiz saying : Always leave them wanting more . ’ |
| 27 | Or it 's like the radioactive cloud has drifted down , days after the holocaust , and dusted their skin softly to start the decay . |
| 28 | Essentially it is like the forensic scientist trying to find two chemical ‘ fingerprints ’ which match for as many elements as possible . |
| 29 | It is like the differential gear on the back axle of a car . |
| 30 | It is so strange , it is like the awesome silence which in the minds of the ancient Israelites sometimes preceded divine revelation . |