Example sentences of "be [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt the change to be rather like ‘ the shedding of an adolescent enthusiasm , . |
| 2 | Closer to home we have to decide whether , for example , to recognise that an increase in food prices imposed as a result of welfare standards demanded by the middle classes would be rather like the poll tax . |
| 3 | ‘ To be cultured ’ , it is imagined , is to be rather like a pearl , understated , refined and in the best possible taste . |
| 4 | I should be dead like the rest of them ’ |
| 5 | The first of July will no doubt be much like the thirtieth of June — such is the tragedy of Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | But for one Chilean exile , Andres Valenzuela , Thursday will be much like any other day — long , boring and lonely . |
| 7 | I had said that the world in 1984 will not be much like that in Orwell 's novel . |
| 8 | One way might be somewhat like graphite , with the atoms arranged in layers , leading to little flat crystals ; while the other way gives chunky , diamond-shaped crystals . |
| 9 | T. W. Graham Solomons 's Organic Chemistry ( Wiley ) was said to be so like Morrison and Boyd that a court case for alleged copying ensued ; but Solomons was cleared . |
| 10 | He waited to be instructed what else a Rifleman could do to be less like a fish out of water in a battalion of Grenadiers . |
| 11 | The place would be less like a fridge by now if you had . ’ |
| 12 | Instead she almost dreamily let her fingers trail over Julius 's smooth and supple skin , she felt the hard heat of him against her palms , and it was astonishing how right it seemed that they should be together like this . |
| 13 | I ca n't guarantee it will be exactly like that , but you must have got the picture . |
| 14 | Thus yellow and roundness might be intrinsic properties of a yellow ball as being among the properties in virtue of the possession of which another ball might be exactly like it . |
| 15 | Let others have felt this way , let them feel it now ; it would never be exactly like this , never be identical . |
| 16 | There not only does the fish fauna closely resemble that of the Middle Old Red Sandstone in Scotland , but the sediments themselves are said to be exactly like the Thurso Flagstone Group of Caithness . |
| 17 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 18 | It 'd be just like the country if there was n't all the noise from the traffic . |
| 19 | Common sense ought to have told him that Marie 's reaction would be just like this : quiet and resigned . |
| 20 | It would be just like him to regard a child as a competitor for my affections . ’ |
| 21 | If the solar System is at a special place , then the concept of terrestrial mediocrity ( that we are so ordinary the Universe at large must be just like our neighbourhood ) takes something of a knock . |
| 22 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 23 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 24 | But with the VR system , images are so realistic explicit sex and graphic violence will be just like the real thing , scientists say . |
| 25 | Suzie comes from Melbourne , so it would be just like going home for her . |
| 26 | She would be just like the fairy dancers they had seen on the stage , and her feet would n't look big and flat in those shoes because they had lovely pointy toes , and little pom-poms on them . |
| 27 | He had always been so scathing about psychiatrists and psychotherapists , emphatic that she was normal , that she would be just like any other mother once she had a child of her own . |
| 28 | That would be just like the old days . |
| 29 | It 'll be just like the Concorde drivers . |
| 30 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |