Example sentences of "[noun sg] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He constantly ignored Bolingbroke 's maxim that Members of Parliament are like hounds that grow fond of the leader ‘ who shows them game and by whose halloo they are used to be encouraged . ’ |
| 2 | SEX and football are like oil and water they do n't really mix . |
| 3 | What 's the use of learning that I 'm one of a long row , and that my past and future are like thousands of other people 's ? |
| 4 | Huggy Bear are like a fractious baby , communicating their youthful frustration through noise , abrasive confrontation and complete confusion , screaming out at the unfairness of a world they do n't fully comprehend . |
| 5 | The huge fragments of rock are like ‘ chaffy grain beneath the threshing flail ’ . |
| 6 | What will your future be like , say , six months or two years after you have achieved your goal ? |
| 7 | ‘ At first I was dazzled , and covered my eyes , and there did n't seem the smallest change ; the roar of the Strand and the roar of the reef were like the same : hark to it now , and you can near the cabs and buses rolling and the streets resound . ’ |
| 8 | She was able to describe in minute detail her clothes , her home and even what the fishing boats and the harbour were like . |
| 9 | In this connection we may even talk of rules of language , as if a linguistic practice were like a game . |
| 10 | ‘ A moral life without reference to religion is like a house built on sand . |
| 11 | The administration of the remedy is like dropping a pebble into the water 's edge , the ripples/waves resulting will depending on their homœopathicity cancel out the energy disturbance of the disease . |
| 12 | Similarly , I do not have to observe anything ( attend to , and interpret , verbal imagery , and so forth ) to answer the question , ‘ What do you think ? ’ : so ( we may think ) thinking is like feeling . |
| 13 | The adrenalin rhythm is like that of body temperature , therefore , in its general timing and its general integration with the sleep/wake cycle . |
| 14 | Yeah , but I 'm saying , that 's how that 's the deal is like , and it seems reasonable . |
| 15 | Football is like that , and Wright must realise it . |
| 16 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 17 | It was to be known whether the mines " are like to continue as they have been , & whether the Oare is like to continue at the same rate it hath been at , and whether it be of the same goodness as it hath been . " |
| 18 | And when you 're choosing your bag you 'll need to take account of what your metabolism is like — whether or not you 're a cold or a warm sleeper . |
| 19 | Lazing on a gleaming deck , the water lapping gently against the side is like a lullaby and I manage only 15 pages of Frederick Forsyth before succumbing to the pleasures of a hot Ontario sun . |
| 20 | In many ways , self-defence is like family planning : if you take precautions , you 'll often save yourself a lot of trouble . |
| 21 | The net result is like sitting in a club with all the right credentials but failing to have a good time . |
| 22 | The finished result is like a small cable . |
| 23 | It 's just so dumb , I mean the whole movie is like , it 's in the nineteen seventies , yeah , and like they 've all got these big fucking boobs and they 're stuck out in space it 's fucking odd . |
| 24 | Murder is like that , a contaminating crime . |
| 25 | Murder is like a game of hazard . |
| 26 | If your programme is like many we have seen , you will probably have more than 10 lectures per week , and you will have to work with greater efficiency and use more of the available 36 hours . |
| 27 | My mind is like a stage , with the actors , their costumes , props , scripts and agents all streaming on from stage right . |
| 28 | The mind is like a vat in which time works on all the ideas and changes them . |
| 29 | His mind is like cotton-wool . |
| 30 | Oh my god his mind 's like a sieve . |