Example sentences of "may be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may be like a banana tree or a coconut tree , half human in appearance , revolting in every way , but caring for him is still a woman 's duty if he 's her husband . |
| 2 | In diarrhoea which comes on when there are hot days and cold nights and the nature of the stools keeps changing ( like Pulsatilla ) Infant diarrhoea may be like this . |
| 3 | Whooping cough may be like this or even asthma . |
| 4 | Smells travel well under water , though what the experience of underwater scents may be like is open to imagination . |
| 5 | The symptoms of toxoplasmosis for healthy adults may be like mild flu , but often there are no symptoms . |
| 6 | Some people may ‘ hear ’ the Niagara Falls in their right ear and Euston Station in their left ; tinnitus may be like a continuous high-pitched whistle or the rhythmic sound of a repeated loud , squelchy thump . |
| 7 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |
| 8 | It may be like a questionnaire , leaving the interviewer no discretion as to how to ask the questions or in what order . |
| 9 | Suppose the reformer stops saying that a good woman may be like God and begins saying that God is like a good woman . |
| 10 | Or you may be like those who tell me they 've used what could have been a disaster to make their lives more what they wanted them to be . |
| 11 | yo you 're suggesting is what is happening now and so many of us he no he not just here but in population generally belong to all sorts of pressure groups erm whatever they may be like Greenpeace and many others erm really it 's , it 's a jolly hard slog , the point is that erm it the lid is on the kettle the whole time and it 's only , the only way that people can get anything done is by joining these organizations erm but it 's a very slow business erm but there 's no other way of doing anything because you ca n't change what happens at the top . |
| 12 | I want to see evidence of both of them , that is my purpose , that you may be like me . |
| 13 | In our day to day living , in our living , in our service for him , in our worship , in our relationships with one another , in our thinking , our motives , our our everything about us that we may be like him . |