Example sentences of "[modal v] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theatre is at it 's best being spectacular and for experimental new plays — I certainly do n't think the theatre should be like television . |
| 2 | At least that is what it should be like . |
| 3 | There is no sense here of any engagement with the writer on what the script should be like , nor does Hepworth anticipate substantial work being done on the text after his initial moments of introspection . |
| 4 | ‘ It will be handsome when uniforme , ’ said Palladio about his houses , ‘ because a building should be like an entier and perfect body where each member agrees with the other. , |
| 5 | In particular , what was wrong was their idea that ‘ science ’ should consist of demonstrative syllogisms , and their view of what the premisses of these should be like . |
| 6 | I had no interest in what this house should be like wishing only for a place and quickly to lay my head and could hardly rouse myself to inspect it . |
| 7 | So I know what your board should be like . |
| 8 | He believed that ‘ a club should be like a big family , with all members of it sticking and pulling together under one head ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Now this is what a pub should be like , ’ he said to them with a grin . |
| 10 | His model of what computer learning should be like is taken from the ‘ Samba schools ’ in Rio de Janeiro , where experts and stars gather a coterie of followers and students to prepare for the carnival . |
| 11 | When a man wished to know what a king should be like , his clerical advisers would give him an expurgated account of the careers of King David , King Solomon and King Hezekiah ; if a man aspired to be emperor , he might hear a little about Constantine and Theodosius and other imperial figures of the distant past ; but he would hear above all about Charlemagne . |
| 12 | Spending time with your bass should be like spending time with a good friend . |
| 13 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 14 | This is what life should be like ; this is what I 'm designed for . |
| 15 | They each address themselves to the reader 's understanding of what a just society should be like : they are publicly political writings . |
| 16 | Elliott once said : ‘ Actors should be like shrimps against sand — barely noticeable but registering their passing . ’ |
| 17 | Men define what women should be like . |
| 18 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 19 | The stages are listed here not because this is exactly what every survey is like , or should be like , but because survey researchers have to consider all these points at some stage , and usually in roughly this order . |
| 20 | We might then be able to work back from lifestyle and abilities to predict what the brain of a particular species should be like ( Legg 1983 ) . |
| 21 | You 've really got to be one to appreciate the spirit of the place but pop in to see what a real pub should be like . |
| 22 | The threat arises because this account of autonomy is in fact often a strongly normative one ; it presents an image of what a ‘ feminist self ’ should be like . |
| 23 | Now that 's what actually happens , there 's a there 's a dialectical interaction between people 's ideas about what society should be like and the changes that are actually going on around them . |
| 24 | All the best books advise that the texture should be like fine breadcrumbs , and this is literally the state it should be in . |
| 25 | Well actually I think your quite right , but I think the problem is that the older reader reads it for escapism and enjoyment , its , its fun , but I think the younger reader reads it and thinks that 's what life is should be like and that 's when the trouble starts . |
| 26 | ‘ I know , ’ said David cheerfully teasing her , ‘ you think a church should be like an English Gothic cathedral or a little whitewashed village church with moth-eaten Peninsular War banners fluttering from dry-rotted lances . ’ |
| 27 | All parents should be like ours , then sisters really become sisters . |
| 28 | She was — ; not ashamed of him — but outraged that one of her children should be like that . |
| 29 | He had very definite ideas about what a son of his should be like . |
| 30 | And indeed the reflections on art by modernists such as Flaubert , Klee , and Auguste Macke did hold that literature and painting should be like music in a quest for the attainment of formal qualities and in a departure from realist notions of representation . |