Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen the little plastic bowls of grey water at the back of the hot-dog stall in which the woman rinsed her horrible cloth ; she knew what the lavatories in the park were like . |
| 2 | The majority were like that . |
| 3 | The boiler was like an upright wooden barrel banded with copper . |
| 4 | According to Martin Scorsese , who you might expect to know about such things , going to the cinema is like taking drugs . |
| 5 | Now , the whole of the West and the Mid-West was like the Navaho Reservation . |
| 6 | And that 's what the heart is like in heart failure . |
| 7 | The crude facts about the tyrannies are easily stated ; it is harder to get at the truth about what the tyrannies were like . |
| 8 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 9 | Having heard the Orkneys were like Eden |
| 10 | ‘ Putting in the foundations was like building on geological custard . ’ |
| 11 | The Christian is like an athlete in training ( 1 Cor. |
| 12 | The Braithwaites were like that . |
| 13 | Sign of the Times was like ‘ What 's Goin' On ’ , in that it 's a pandemonium of anguish and compassion in the face of the impending apocalypse , devoid of any real critique let alone programmatic approach to change . |
| 14 | Since merely knowing the brain state does not reveal what the experience is like , and since what the experience is like , if it is a reality at all ( which Tye does not dispute ) , must be a fact about the experience ( or a feature or aspect of the experience , which will do just as well ) , it follows that the experience is not a brain state . |
| 15 | Since merely knowing the brain state does not reveal what the experience is like , and since what the experience is like , if it is a reality at all ( which Tye does not dispute ) , must be a fact about the experience ( or a feature or aspect of the experience , which will do just as well ) , it follows that the experience is not a brain state . |
| 16 | If they are symptoms of leprosy , then we are indeed ‘ fortunate ’ to know what the experience is like . |
| 17 | The experience is like entering the catacombs and I would n't have been the least surprised to have come across the odd skull or two in this formidable kind of Davey Jones ' locker . |
| 18 | ‘ The majors were like lumbering giants , ’ Jay explains . |
| 19 | I put them on the chairs , here in front of the fire , to dry nut and the kitchen was like a steam-bath all winter . ’ |
| 20 | The tension in the kitchen was like an electric current . |
| 21 | My legs are shaded by the dust which has gathered over the past few days , so that the contrast is like a Coppertone ad , with the puppy pulling a little girl 's knickers off . |
| 22 | Walking through the Rorim was like living a medieval pageant . |
| 23 | Sirens are wailing , and the shouting is like at Millwall when the team 's gone to sleep . |
| 24 | She could have told her guest that the midges were like little piranhas of the air ; but she had n't , and now Betty had found out for herself . |
| 25 | That 's well over three thousand miles and God knows what the roads are like south of Valparaíso , if there are any . |
| 26 | The building was like a hotel . |
| 27 | The fact the enemies were like giants did n't mean a thing . |
| 28 | The hair is like Apollo 's , and it is particularly in the incisive detail of the head that one sees how much one loses in the marble . |
| 29 | ‘ The West is like London only worse . |
| 30 | Thomas Sopwith FRS describes what one of the meetings was like : ‘ In the month of September 1856 it was my good fortune to receive an invitation from Dr John Lee . |