Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adrenalin rhythm is like that of body temperature , therefore , in its general timing and its general integration with the sleep/wake cycle . |
| 2 | Football is like that , and Wright must realise it . |
| 3 | Murder is like that , a contaminating crime . |
| 4 | If your programme is like many we have seen , you will probably have more than 10 lectures per week , and you will have to work with greater efficiency and use more of the available 36 hours . |
| 5 | If spring is like this , what will summer bring ? |
| 6 | You know at the top it was like sloping down here and the car 's like this and I 'm having to try and get the car back down without it toppling over and it was an abs |
| 7 | Prejudice is like that . |
| 8 | ‘ Then we say ‘ skål ’ and drink , and the way we drink aquavit is like this — all at once ! ’ |
| 9 | The whole interview is like this . |
| 10 | The vision can wander about the void but one part of a void is like another and there can be no consciousness of movement until two locations have been defined , either by two dots or by the displacement of one dot , which requires memory of its path . |
| 11 | A paddle stroke is like any other model or diagram which is used to pass on information . |
| 12 | Days when my mind was like those days , grey and comfortless for no particular reason . |
| 13 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 14 | David had a prawn salad sandwich and a cheese and onion sandwich and I 'm not kidding you , the sandwich was like that , they just filled it and it was |
| 15 | Industry was like that in Glasgow , but with disadvantages in everything except the local labour supply . |
| 16 | His mouth was like that of a camel , with a big opening and wide jaws . |
| 17 | Do you know my mouth was like that the other week . |
| 18 | It occurred to her hazily that her own condition was like that of a bulb she had once seen when the power had been suddenly cut down and the light had dimmed to the faintest red glow in the filament . |
| 19 | Rites of passage are like that . |
| 20 | Would her own marriage be like that ? |
| 21 | he says his daughter 's here from South Africa with her little'un , she 's married to a Paki , but the marriage is like that . |
| 22 | Shamim 's village is like many others from which Pakistani immigrants have come to Britain . |
| 23 | ‘ But the universe is like that , too . ’ |
| 24 | As suggested in section 10.5 , insertion of resistance in series with the capacitance C limits the closed-loop gain at high frequencies that satisfy and if the closed-loop Bode plot is like that of with an approach to the open-loop plot at 6 dB per octave , the amplifier is likely to be stable . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In his drunkenness he had seemed like something out of a cheap Sunday newspaper : her marriage was like that also , as her husband was , underhand and vicious in a small town . |
| 27 | Still , there had been Maggie 's arena ( the tiny sun was like some red-gel spotlight blazing just to highlight her ) . |
| 28 | This part of the dream was like many others I 'd had about him . |
| 29 | The Jews of Paul 's day could draw no credit for being sons of Abraham unless their attitude was like that of Abraham . |
| 30 | Boy was like that , he was hoping that somebody would take him to the place where everybody else was . |