Example sentences of "[be] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davos the hippy wears big flares — so big they 're like vast flapping sails . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've always disliked the idea of couples when they 're like Siamese twins , like it 's always ‘ Charlie and Kate' ’ , and it 's never one alone . |
| 3 | And the mother says , ‘ The babby likes to stroke the fur , they 're like cuddly toys ’ ; and I says , ‘ Jesus , woman , you do realize there 's enough poison in them rats to kill a bloody army ? ’ ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They 're like secret societies , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Though the tenants did n't like living there , they grew into a community in the course of their campaigns : " We 're like old friends now , in and out of each other 's houses , " said one of their organisers . |
| 6 | But then he kept going on about how brilliant your party was gon na be and everything and I 'm sat there thinking let's face it , if I come on between you know , because like , it would have been alright cos I 'd be finished like , today or tomorrow and then it would have been like nice and ready for the party ! |
| 7 | I 've been like mad mad busy w one thing and another . |
| 8 | It would have been like Donleavy to try to clear up the Asmar mess himself . |
| 9 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 10 | To visit their former homes and lands had been like touching history . |
| 11 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 12 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 13 | Glaucous and Iceland Gulls are like all-pale Great and Lesser Black-backs , their pale silver-grey mantle and wings unrelieved by any black at the tip . |
| 14 | These immaculate little new houses are like modern fortresses . |
| 15 | In some ways , such horses are like certain breeds of dogs who will only accept one owner in their lifetime . |
| 16 | In other words , psychiatrists have used as their analogy disorders such as Huntington 's chorea or Alzheimer 's disease , which are known ( or can be assumed ) to have a discrete organic cause in the nervous system and which are like other infective or degenerative physical diseases , except that they happen to affect the brain . |
| 17 | However , the belief that good poems are like good football teams , in that they get ‘ better results ’ , is undoubtedly novel . |
| 18 | It 's a very nice letter , but it does n't tell me anything : ‘ Healthy people are like healthy animals , they eat when they 're hungry , and they do not agonise over every meal . ’ |
| 19 | These are like tiny sponges which continuously release moisturisers . |
| 20 | Ideas are like negative atoms — or does he mean ions ? — rushing around attempting to resolve themselves . |
| 21 | armoured animals are like rich people — insulated from the real hazards of life and therefore less streetwise' and opportunist . |
| 22 | We are like broad |
| 23 | NOTHING THAT Ministry have ever recorded can prepare you for what the band are like live . |
| 24 | The lights are like smashed glass — all shattered into a million bits . |
| 25 | In some ways , postnominal attributives are also relatively straightforward ; thus it is perfectly clear that they are like ordinary prenominal attributives in that they do not constitute a full sentence with the noun or noun phrase that precedes them , and that they are part of the same entity-identifying phrase . |
| 26 | They are like small chambers ; they were once used by pirates , only His Grace , the late King , cleared them out with fire , sword , and gallows . |
| 27 | We are like small boys on a high diving board , making excuses . |
| 28 | THE five republics of ex-Soviet Central Asia are like Siamese quintuplets : when they emerged squawking into the world nearly two years ago , all shared bits of each other 's industries and infrastructure . |
| 29 | When Serena reads an article on the plane to Greece about a pair of Siamese twins , one of whom dies , she realizes that she and Stella are like Siamese twins joined at the psyche ( 40 ) . |
| 30 | Whereas appellant and appellate have two l s , appealed , appealing are like sealed , sealing , peeled , peeling , and have only one . |