Example sentences of "be like any " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't been like any other seance I had ever seen … |
| 2 | ‘ I would say that priests are like any other men , be they lawyer or coroner , Sir John , they have their weaknesses . |
| 3 | In summary , one can say that one can not teach any creature to mentally be like any other , since we have no handle by which we may modify the essential mind structure of another creature . |
| 4 | ‘ I imagine , ’ said one rather earnest , heavy-jawed man , ‘ it to be like any other job of work . |
| 5 | I could n't even imagine what this sensation might be like any more , so utterly had it evaporated . |
| 6 | A merger with the Transport and General Workers ' Union will be like any other previous arrangements . |
| 7 | To be like any ship y-wrecked . ’ |
| 8 | House prices were like any other price — they were fuelled by too-easy credit , and when that happened , it was called inflation . |
| 9 | We thought they were like any other wartime group , nothing more than reminiscences and marching songs . |
| 10 | Any atom of oxygen is like any other in its essence , even if they differ in their position , velocity , state of excitation , and so on . |
| 11 | Their handicap is like any other permanent disability , such as someone who is physically handicapped through the loss of a limb . |
| 12 | In many respects , however , life in a special school is like any other day or boarding school , and it would be wrong to assume that rare and special things go on in a special school . |
| 13 | In that sense , it is like any other job of work , or like being any parent . |
| 14 | This view forcibly made by Simon claims that land is like any other resource which , far from being finite as for example , the Club of Rome world models assumed ( Meadows et al. |
| 15 | A paddle stroke is like any other model or diagram which is used to pass on information . |
| 16 | The airport at Singapore is like any other except that it is filled with white men wearing long shorts . |
| 17 | In Norman Jay 's words , ‘ The record business is like any other business ; it 's there to sell product and make money … ’ |
| 18 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , a penthouse is like any other home , only it 's right up on top of a building and you can see for miles and miles just by looking out of your sitting room window . ’ |
| 20 | In one sense , literature is like any other form of social or cultural activity , so that it may be analyzed in semiological terms ; this would involve discovering what the nature of its component signs are , and how the system governing their use and combinations operates . |
| 21 | Currently , the MCA is like any other tax allowance and allows a taxpayer to reduce his or her liability at his or her highest rate of tax . |
| 22 | It 's like any other group … |
| 23 | But it 's like any job , it has to be thought through and planned out . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's like any new job , ’ Jill added . |
| 25 | To an otter it 's like any other hole in the ground , it 's cover . |
| 26 | it 's like , yeah but it 's like , it 's like any big conglomeration int it , if , if I was to buy you out as a company you 're gon na |
| 27 | Yeah , well , he 's like any little kids I think |
| 28 | Yes , obviously as you can imagine , everybody very buoyed up , it well , it 's like any sport , it one moment can change everybody 's outlook , everybody 's evening , everybody 's weekend , and that 's of course , that 's what 's happened here . |
| 29 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 30 | But she was no intellectual and , apart from a passion for the ballet , which she used to attend with her grandmother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy , she was like any ordinary teenager . |