Example sentences of "be [conj] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAMLET : … for you yourself , sir , should be as old as I am if like a crab you could go backward . |
| 2 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 3 | The problem with GPS is that like all new gadgets , the companies are wanting to recover development costs as quickly as possible and they are very expensive . |
| 4 | The oddest thing about X is that like naloxone , it blocks the opiate receptor ; this is opposite from morphine and the enkephalins . |
| 5 | It is the attraction of opposite charges that holds the negatively charged electrons in the atomic periphery where they encircle the positively charged nucleus , but the corollary is that like charges repel ; two protons , each one positively charged , repel one another . |
| 6 | That aside , the real strength of this album is that like all the best and most honest Southern woman singers , Nanci Griffith is insisting that small-town 35 year old housewives ca n't get satisfaction either . |
| 7 | What is even more odd is that like the AV the STV is allowed to retain its original unitary value however often it is transferred and whatever its preferential status . |
| 8 | The striking thing was that like the golden ball Mungo had found at the barrow , these were not of modern design . |