Example sentences of "[verb] [is] [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of relationship you will be seeking to establish is rather like the one you have with good business colleagues . |
| 2 | But for language learners to learn only the intricacies of the device without knowing how to put it to use is rather like learning about the delicate mechanisms of a clock without knowing how to tell the time . |
| 3 | Nick Price says that point to point is just like the cheltenham gold cup … its run under the same rules as the grand national … the big difference is that this is amateur … totally amateur … but its a boom sport and very popular in this area |
| 4 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 5 | ‘ Teethgrinder ’ ( their current 45 ) which follows is more like it . |
| 6 | LOOKING back on Northern Ireland as it was when the troubles started is uncannily like looking back on a silent movie . |
| 7 | So the sound image that a dolphin receives is more like an X-ray than a normal picture . |
| 8 | But , of course , thinking is not like feeling . |
| 9 | It is cramping for the author , but if you have contracted with your readers to tell them , through a story , what police work is really like then you must accept this limitation . |
| 10 | The philosophical position I have just outlined is not like a scientific theory : it can not be tested experimentally . |