Example sentences of "is like [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me that the only possible way of finding out what it is like is to live it . |
| 2 | The best way to discover what HGW is like is to use it to create a presentation . |
| 3 | To read about her here is like being shown someone 's snaps or scrapbook — perhaps an underrated pleasure . |
| 4 | Flying in even light snow is like being in a fog , and unless you are up high and can manage to fly clear on instruments , you are liable to have real trouble . |
| 5 | What it is like being married into a ‘ low status ’ family in the Midlands was described to me by Surjeet , a teacher in her early twenties who had grown up in Britain . |
| 6 | It is like being part of the same company , but without the drawbacks . |
| 7 | Glasgow , 1990 is like being ‘ on the Continent ’ . |
| 8 | Being tied to the Deutschemark at present is like being Hector dragged round the walls of Troy . |
| 9 | It is like being attached to the free end of a rope ; a gentle pull at one end means a vicious kick at the other . |
| 10 | With empathy , we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does . |
| 11 | Even for the world 's fittest men , riding up them and surviving is like being battered onto your hands and knees . |
| 12 | Being hit by a plastic bullet is like being hit by an ice hockey puck at 250 km per hour — without the benefit of the goalkeeper 's protective clothing ’ . |
| 13 | The meandering reminiscence of boarding-school rituals is like being forced to listen to a long , pointless story about an acquaintance 's childhood . |
| 14 | Being surprised by opinion polls is like being taken aback by blue skies . |
| 15 | Being fearless is like being immune to pain : it means we do things which others , in their right minds , would never consider . |
| 16 | Being in this school is like being in a cage with a cobra . |
| 17 | Every time your work is read , you die several deaths for every word , and poetry is like being flayed alive . |
| 18 | Time , when I ask people in workshops what it is like being a teacher , they say they feel unappreciated : unappreciated within the school by seniors , colleagues and pupils , and unappreciated by the world at large — parents , politicians , pundits , the media . |
| 19 | So far so good , but is like being compared to like ? |
| 20 | Getting into the thing is like being fitted for a tin wet-suit . |
| 21 | All your life you live so close to truth , it becomes a permanent blur in the corer of your eye , and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque . |
| 22 | Trisha says this was an emotional as well as a physical reality : ‘ This feeling of being out of control is like being on a roller coaster — there 's no way out . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ A transplant is like being born again . |
| 24 | For many Tory appointees , getting a place on a quango is like being given a gong that pays ’ — Labour MP Jack Straw . |
| 25 | This is what it is like being on the outside of a murder case , thought Gabriel . |