Example sentences of "[det] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are like that . |
| 2 | Some were like . |
| 3 | ‘ This is like Paradise . |
| 4 | This is like a road-maker 's pneumatic breaker in miniature , except that the drill bit rotates to clear the debris from the hole . |
| 5 | In a way , this is like the Japanese method : a community of firms tied to one another 's fortunes . |
| 6 | This is like forensic science , where the more ‘ matches ’ one finds between two fingerprints , the greater the certainty that they belong to the same person . |
| 7 | This is like a palace , compared to my rooms at Mrs Jenks 's house , and yet something seems unexpected . |
| 8 | But this is like to be a boring trip , see you — business , just . |
| 9 | But this is like wondering how much French or Italian to learn . |
| 10 | This is like discussing the royal family without mentioning the Queen . |
| 11 | In the mechanical analogy , this is like saying that when the marble is in stage A ( Logic 1 ) it is not in state B ( Logic 0 ) . |
| 12 | Laney suggest you simply remove the speaker jack when using headphones , but surely this is like saying it 's okay to point an empty gun ; forgetting to re-connect the speaker can prove disastrous on some amps , and inexperienced guitarists should be dissuaded from the habit from early on . |
| 13 | And this is like chapter two of the band … ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , in soccer terms this is like Norwich City versus QPR . |
| 15 | She has to work tremendously hard , but this is like building the banks of the river for it to flow through . |
| 16 | This is like the legal concept of contributory negligence . |
| 17 | I saw it contained fifteen or twenty pages , and thought , my God , this is like the interview I did with Adenauer twenty years ago all over again ! |
| 18 | Return the two empty needles to NWP ( this is like K3 , K2 tog . |
| 19 | Amid boarded-up shops , closing-down sales and owners fighting for survival he said : ‘ This is like a ghost town . |
| 20 | ‘ There are some people who think this is like a camp joke , the way we dress is so bad it 's good . ’ |
| 21 | This is like releasing a skiffle compilation without Lonnie Donegan . |
| 22 | It takes a Wittgenstein to pull us up with a jolt , by saying that this is like translating a chair — not the word ‘ chair ’ , but a chair — into French . |
| 23 | This is like every other third track off a Cure album ever . |
| 24 | This is like saying that all the genetic differences between male and female , oogenesis and spermatogenesis , are specified by a single gene on the Y chromosome . |
| 25 | ‘ This is like something that they 've never seen . |
| 26 | In many ways this is like our own fear of snakes . |
| 27 | ‘ If you happen to be using animals , this is like a kick in the teeth ’ , says one . |
| 28 | Erm , the particular one I 'm focusing on here is sort of the , the vision screening part of it cos the assessment of work stations is gon na be a longer term thing , we 're going back to pre where they 've actually sort of ticked the various boxes on the sheets and said this is like that and so we are collating that information currently . |
| 29 | ‘ This is like home , ’ Bjaaland thought . |
| 30 | ‘ You ca n't know what this is like . ’ |