Example sentences of "that [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I assume that you have feelings similar to mine , and I also assume that animals which are reasonably like us have feelings that are like ours . |
| 2 | She rams a power drill into the ear of her baby doll while going through appalling ‘ cute ’ histrionics that are like Kate Bush with a soiled nappy and a gallon of helium . |
| 3 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 4 | In most of these universes the conditions would not be right for the development of complicated organisms ; only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question : " why is the universe the way we see it ? " |
| 5 | Well some people that are like me , but there ai n't that much fat , that says right , we can now afford to , you know , that person 's er , er , you know got a lot of free time , there ai n't any of them any more is there ? |
| 6 | You sees like cutting , you know you see these walls that are like that and they sort of go down like that and join a pillar and do the same again , just , instead of doing that you lay the soldiers across the top and you , you 've got to sort of cut the bricks in between ai n't ya ? |
| 7 | In many ways they have processes that are like us . |
| 8 | Now we do have some dresses that are like that , but the ordinary ones , I think were made in , because she needed a new dress and she needed it pretty soon , so some of the sewing is just terrible . |
| 9 | There had been lots of books in the Store that were like that . |
| 10 | He stood , looking , and there was the movement again ; the blurring of shapes and silhouettes that were like nothing Floy had ever imagined ; inHuman and ancient and filled with wild woodland enchantment … |
| 11 | Rice , too , in river outlets to the Pacific that were like oases of green in the waste of sand that fringed the coast . |
| 12 | The Lady smiled into two eyes that were like holes in the universe . |
| 13 | Startled , she turned to discover the dark-haired woman glaring at her through eyes that were like burning coals . |
| 14 | Have you read the , have you read articles or any pieces of writing that were like that before ? |
| 15 | A woman that is like a German clock , |
| 16 | Corinthian philistinism , more real though less notorious than Theban , is part of something deeper and more disturbing : she had no ideology to offer , nothing that is like Athenian paideia or Spartan agoge , ‘ culture ’ and ‘ discipline ’ respectively . |
| 17 | At last a technology that is like our dreams . |
| 18 | ‘ Trying to get a little love on the subject , that 's what I was doing on ‘ Ragged Glory ’ , exploring this neighbourhood that 's like a valley or something . |
| 19 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
| 20 | Er er in hole that 's like that and you 're grabbing out , well you 're only making a hole and fill in again but they into that one place do n't they |
| 21 | In commercial terms that 's like committing suicide but in artistic terms it 's been much more fulfilling . ’ |
| 22 | I 'll buy one for myself , but I do n't want anything that 's like , mega-expensive or highly intri |
| 23 | Mummy that 's like an |
| 24 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 25 | I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things . |
| 26 | In the course of the evening we had sampled a wide variety of wines , and were now experiencing a woozy sense of disassociation that was like being drunk and hung-over at the same time . |
| 27 | There was a dry leathery quality about the voice that was like the breaking of a branch . |
| 28 | Mrs O'Neill had startled red hair and a face that was like a dried-up river bed . |
| 29 | The sound of the explosion melded into a terrible noise that was like an animal dying in awful , bellowing pain , but beneath that sound of agony was a harsh metallic scrape and clash that punched at my belly and eardrums . |
| 30 | There was a powerful chemical stench , and a psychic residue of pain and cruelty that was like a punch in the gut . |