Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [is] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beecham said that any fool can conduct three concerts with an orchestra , but to go on improving is like going on a race track where it is possible to improve your time at first , but each new improvement involves great effort and often some danger . |
| 2 | Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shovelling the snow before it stops snowing . |
| 3 | And whether the Oare now gotten is like to prove richer or leaner than now it is , or to continue the same state of goodness that now it is in … |
| 4 | Zell am See is like your best ever beach holiday , but with a lot of extras . |
| 5 | Apples of gold referred to in the Bible — ‘ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver ’ — are thought to have been apricots which abounded in the Holy Land and were introduced into Palestine from Armenia . |