Example sentences of "is [adv] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrial tribunals represent the tribunals whose practice and procedure is most like that of the courts . |
| 2 | The job of a caller is rather like that of a priest who intones , line by line , the words of a prayer and to whom the congregation respond , at each stage , using the appropriate replies . |
| 3 | The relationship is rather like that of pornography to sexual aggression , cathartic or stimulant according to one 's prejudices . |
| 4 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 5 | Olten is rather like that . |
| 6 | The difference between ROM and RAM is rather like that between a printed book , which can only be read , and a personal notepad written in erasable ink , and which can be used over and over again . |
| 7 | THIS ANTHOLOGY of soccer writing — or , in some cases , writing which incorporates soccer — is rather like those games in which one side is a Rest of the World XI or a Football League XI . |
| 8 | Certainly the Rhaetian I have seen in southern Europe , for example on the south side of the Pyrenees and along the shores of Lake Iseo in northern Italy , is incredibly like that of Britain , even in the way the fossils are preserved . |
| 9 | However , serious investigative journalism often provides a challenge to the official version of reality and the search for a major sex criminal is rarely like that . |
| 10 | Er we discussed er economic development with the Government , erm and whether we like it or not erm there has happened to grow up in er I think it 's in West Hounslow , it is somewhere like that ? , |
| 11 | The success of these two means of communication is largely due to the nature of De Falla 's score , which is somewhat like that of Stravinsky fur The Firebird and Petrushka . |
| 12 | It is remarkable that this reform , which is so like that at democratic Athens , was the work of oligarchs , showing that there is nothing distinctively democratic about Kleisthenes ' tribal changes , although Herodotus says Kleisthenes introduced the tribes and the democracy , in that order ( vi.131 ) . |
| 13 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 14 | The simple , broad-based figure calls for no supports or struts to betray a bronze original ; but the treatment of face and forehead-hair is so like that on two male figures , one a bronze original , the other known in many marble copies certainly after a bronze , that one can be pretty confident that that was the material here too . |
| 15 | True , no set of children or of circumstances is entirely like any other , but then nor are they entirely different ; nor do we need to postulate , as the only alternative to a whole set of materials being produced centrally , that every item should be made locally . |
| 16 | The sort of information , however , which can be gleaned from coin inscriptions is much like that derived from inscriptions on other media . |
| 17 | The scorpion fish , so named because the effect of its sting is much like that of a scorpion , is a dramatically beautiful reef fish , boldly striped in red , pink and white , measuring 10–15 cm ( 4–6 in ) in length , with greatly elongated fins . |
| 18 | Swiss Medieval architecture is much like that in Germany though , in general , rather plainer , especially on the exteriors . |
| 19 | But I could n't give in ; one monster is much like another — once you falter , you 're done . |
| 20 | These styles transcended frontiers and thus one Benedictine church is much like another whether in France , England or Italy . |
| 21 | The interior of Kevin Saunderson 's apartment in industrial , decaying , downtown Detroit is much like any apartment belonging to a young and moderately wealthy man . |
| 22 | It is of course also true that no individual 's disease is exactly like that of another . |
| 23 | The official departmental view is that no case is exactly like another , and hard and fast rules can not be applied . |
| 24 | A glance at the awful title suggested the answer ‘ nothing ’ but I soon found that this book is not like all the others . |
| 25 | My poor creature , you see , is not like all the other grim shades who have preceded him . |
| 26 | The real Sid , though , is not like that . |
| 27 | But the world is not like that . |
| 28 | Tapwater is not like that . |
| 29 | ‘ But life is not like that . |
| 30 | Since he does not recognize what he is doing , he blames God rather than his faulty picture , little realizing that God is not like that at all . |