Example sentences of "[that] it be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Pauline whispers that it 's like World Party . ) |
| 2 | But one old boy over in B Wing was telling me that it 's like a fucking maze down there . |
| 3 | It 's such a want when they have been there so long , that it 's like losing a human being . |
| 4 | When you grow up you realize that it 's like the icing on a cake . |
| 5 | The cars are so close together in the street that it 's like a river . |
| 6 | Erm right , difficult one that it 's like the body language after what ? looking at do some work . |
| 7 | John Upson says that it 's like being Managing Director of a good team . |
| 8 | So that it 's like erm , a dough |
| 9 | And it became er I think more people 's perception of it now is that it 's like a bloke bonking birds on stage , it 's nothing like that . |
| 10 | One view of the art market is that it is like a staircase with several landings . |
| 11 | That it is like the mind itself . |
| 12 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 13 | It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’ |
| 14 | To represent the dependence of the world upon God it is a classic error to suggest that it is like a car that requires an initial shove down the street and thereafter runs of its own accord . |
| 15 | The square has recently been renovated although people complain that it is like a film set and the houses are still crumbling behind their façades . |
| 16 | We should make our being so open that it is like one of the old free cities — open to all eyes . |
| 17 | Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton . |
| 18 | One TDC guard remarked to me that it is like fibre in the diet . |
| 19 | If diagram is the right word , we hope that it is like a set of arrows , or avenues , pointing outwards in some of the many directions an artist interested in photography might explore . |
| 20 | Through the glass and the vines overhead could be seen the blue sky and the white clouds , so that it was like being both indoors and out at the same time . |
| 21 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 22 | Anthony , recognizing incompetence , grasped Dalgliesh 's hair firmly with a sticky hand and he felt the momentary touch of a cheek , so soft that it was like the fall of a petal . |
| 23 | He was at a loss to describe the sky , its lilac whiteness , so ineffable above him that it was like a secret waiting to be deciphered , reflecting everything and seeping into the thin mist on the ground . |
| 24 | A British undercover agent in one of David Cornwell 's [ John le Carré 's ] novels is so exasperated by platitudes by a superior that he exploded within himself that it was like working for a bloody clergyman . |
| 25 | Patsy had always told Mrs Hogan that it was like being dead and going to Heaven to have a room of your own . |
| 26 | Now , watching his grinning monkey face as he swung , arm over arm , the frantic twisting of his body , the silver of the delicate ribcage under the pale flesh where the jacket had parted from his jeans , she felt a surge of love so painful that it was like a thrust to the heart . |
| 27 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 28 | People who visited Saddam 's bunker told me afterwards that it was like an underground city . |
| 29 | The old woman was gypsy brown , the tan so shiny on the mild skin that it was like a fresh varnish . |
| 30 | Its tail , so fine and thin that it was like a thread of silver , stretched out for ten times its circumference , terminating in a smaller , silvered sphere little thicker than the thread . |