Example sentences of "be like " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This jealousy may be felt to be like Othello 's in having more to do with difference of race , and with the jealousies of race , than the jealous man , or than the work he belongs to , seems disposed to state . |
| 2 | The lordship in question is the novelist 's , not only in the usual sense , often forgotten , that every word of the novel is his , but also because the speech of its characters can be like that of the narrator , and indeed like that of the writer of Kingsley Amis 's discursive prose . |
| 3 | The theatre is at it 's best being spectacular and for experimental new plays — I certainly do n't think the theatre should be like television . |
| 4 | Work on it is like a dream , or like thoughts of what a work would be like . |
| 5 | The real end must be like counting one then two then three . |
| 6 | My sense of how to go on determined by the vividness of my imagination of what it will be like when done . |
| 7 | But , he pointed out , no one could possibly conceive what life would be like after the death of images . |
| 8 | You who read me , he concluded , you who think you understand me , must try to imagine what it would be like not to understand me . |
| 9 | Such groups were said to be like the foreigners in the adjacent forces , for it was constantly repeated that many wanted to join us but failed because of some inadequacy . |
| 10 | What would it be like to be In Love with Dionne rather than just loving her ? |
| 11 | But the government troops are devils in the thoroughness of their searching and destroying — would it be like ‘ Forty-six again ? |
| 12 | It must be like this for a minister paying his visits . |
| 13 | Even if they do not have to hide , they will be like lieutenants to us now — ‘ |
| 14 | We can not be like Red Indians , sitting in a circle and acting as one man. , ‘ Do you think we have lost that forever ? ’ |
| 15 | JN OGILVY 1694 — he would not write ANGUS CAMERON in his cell , it would be like leaving a vital part of himself here forever . |
| 16 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 17 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 18 | At least that is what it should be like . |
| 19 | A return seemed unlikely , but at the same time there was this intriguing question : just what would it be like to be up there , 20 pitches out , on a wall as hard as many a belted route , but with no bolts ? |
| 20 | Petersburg encourages his vicious loose-end tendency , as it teases Svidrigailov with phantom images of what it would be like to be an occupied man . |
| 21 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 22 | ‘ It will eventually happen and when it does it will be like a release valve . |
| 23 | For someone like me with a lot of children it would be like running a penal colony . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't be like that , ’ said Mr Pilcher , and he then gave me to understand that for an unspecified weekly consideration I could purchase his protection , allowing me and Mrs Mouse to continue with our musical evenings without their being gate-crashed by him and his colleagues . |
| 25 | Telepoint offers one-way telephone services and PCN is expected to be like an affordable cellular radio , so the need for paging seems dubious . |
| 26 | ‘ Buying Manchester United would be like buying a Van Gogh — you just can not put a value on it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living . |
| 28 | But life under Labour would be like a nuclear winter . ’ |
| 29 | She once put a jar in the middle of the table , in the light , and said she wanted her heroine to be like that ; her novels create just such memorable images , not static , but still , like remembered paintings . |
| 30 | Do n't ask me if it was a good game — it would be like asking a surgeon if it was a good operation . |