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Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] like " in BNC.

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1	While the medical care , in a technical sense , is generally excellent in the municipal hospitals , all of which are affiliated to major teaching centres to try to ensure high standards , these institutions are like the NHS only more so .
2	He , like many others , was to learn the truth of the Talmud that , ‘ our passions are like travellers : at first they make a brief stay ; then they are like guests , who visit often ; and then they turn into tyrants , who hold us in their power . ’
3	N. W. Cusa 's ducks are like attractive wooden decoys .
4	Robert Tisserand in ’ The Art of Aromatherapy ’ states that essences are like the blood of a person .
5	I dare say that for surgeons , operations are like buses at a bus depot .
6	More , even , since they know what the Khedive 's sons are like .
7	Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’
8	But like just for you to know that , I mean , at the moment , got a slight shortage of staff and , us little Express girlies are like , we 're all sort of desperate to please them well , and because we need to , if a customer rings we 're always there for them and the problem is , I 've got like two phones on my desk at the moment , so , I could guarantee the minute I put my phone down , if anybody else is on the phone ha , bloody phone 's still ringing , I have got to answer it .
9	The laibon 's fingers are like rolled-up tobacco leaves , crudely made cabbage cigars .
10	Its last hours are like those of Camembert ; it becomes a liquid smelly mess and runs out of the joint , leaving only a dirty mark behind .
11	‘ Most of these forms are like prescriptions . ’
12	Maybe you find their lips attractive or you are anxious to see what their teeth are like but , never mind , you did it .
13	Her ears are like cookies , her teeth are like candy .
14	Yeah we know what you piss artists are like !
15	When the rains come to my country the clusters of houses are like islands .
16	The same can of course be said of a great novel , for if houses are like stories , stories are also like houses .
17	These immaculate little new houses are like modern fortresses .
18	Princes on white chargers are like bloodhounds , over mountain ranges and mighty oceans they can scent the whiff of virginal longing and are drawn to it like wasps to jam jars .
19	Most plans are like off-the-peg suits , they fit everyone more or less and no one perfectly .
20	The election posters that still litter our cities are like the documentary fragments of some remote and arcane historical dispute .
21	these bar graphs are like three D you know
22	That 's well over three thousand miles and God knows what the roads are like south of Valparaíso , if there are any .
23	‘ High quality clinical researchers are like gold dust , ’ said Diana Dunstan of the Medical Research Council at a meeting on opportunities in clinical research held at the Royal College of Physicians just before Christmas .
24	Imagine that products are like boxes .
25	‘ These are from Thailand , and you know what those chinky birds are like , do n't ya ? ’
26	Cultures are like colours — we can have any number on our palette without any problems .
27	Reality is a virgin whose virtue we all want to believe in , and , at one and the same time , an old whore who we 've all had and had and had again , until our eyes and ears are like genitals that have been rubbed raw .
28	Her ears are like cookies , her teeth are like candy .
29	I get her head and you know Beetlejuice when he goes I got ta show you it cos sometimes she 's , she 's not alert and when she 's like that it looks wicked cos he goes and her ears are like that she goes and I get her to play the banjo and she goes it 's wicked !
30	The world is a treasure house of free delights ; beyond music and poetry are painting and sculpture and these are only the arts ; the joys that come from the mystics compared to those from the arts are like seeing masterpieces instead of prints .