Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this connection we may even talk of rules of language , as if a linguistic practice were like a game . |
| 2 | ‘ A moral life without reference to religion is like a house built on sand . |
| 3 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 4 | Lazing on a gleaming deck , the water lapping gently against the side is like a lullaby and I manage only 15 pages of Frederick Forsyth before succumbing to the pleasures of a hot Ontario sun . |
| 5 | Murder is like a game of hazard . |
| 6 | My mind is like a stage , with the actors , their costumes , props , scripts and agents all streaming on from stage right . |
| 7 | The mind is like a vat in which time works on all the ideas and changes them . |
| 8 | Oh my god his mind 's like a sieve . |
| 9 | The car 's like an oven inside . ’ |
| 10 | Rather than an archaeologist engaged in reconstitution of broken pictures , the enquirer is like the secretary to a historiographical commission which never meets , and which evolves its consensus through bilateral talks with an outsider . |
| 11 | Each contribution in the field of biblical research is like a footprint in sand . |
| 12 | The effect is like a courtier in a tatty second-hand livery : the intention grand , but the actual impression tawdry , almost ridiculous . |
| 13 | The effect is like a frog swelling its neck . |
| 14 | The rocking of the boat 's like the rocking of our two chairs . |
| 15 | His puffy mouth is like a boxing glove , |
| 16 | There is a whole host of places where we are told that God 's action is like the wind strong , boisterous , uncontrollable . |
| 17 | She 's married to an Englishman ; they live in Norwich , ’ he explained quietly , and then his eyes lowered momentarily to her mouth , and that one glance was like a caress . |
| 18 | It was as if the idea of God in the mind was like a shadow thrown on a wall . |
| 19 | A Sechem 's mind was like a sponge , soaking up information until a connection could be made between apparently unrelated areas of scientific fact . |
| 20 | The stars shimmered in their dustless , glittering clouds ; the terrace was like a stage beneath them . |
| 21 | The future was like the blackness that surrounded her , in which there were n't even shadows . |
| 22 | In the damp earth its indentation was like a casting mould , clear and sharp-cornered , composed of earth and living things , tiny translucent snails and a pale slug . |
| 23 | The perpetrator was like a phantom or a supernatural being . |
| 24 | The heat was overpowering , the sun glared out of a dear blue sky , the inside of the car was like an oven . |
| 25 | But " down in the grass itself , between the bushes , in that thick forest trodden by the beetle , the spider and the hunting shrew , the moving light was like a wind that danced among them to set them scurrying and weaving . |
| 26 | Her mouth was like a flower , and her eyes were large and soft , sometimes black , blue or grey , sometimes all three colours together . |
| 27 | Her mouth was like a rosebud — take it or leave it . |
| 28 | The wind was like a blade that just skims the skin . |
| 29 | The wind was like a punishment to the face and hands . |
| 30 | Her breath was tearing at her throat , the stitch in her side was like a knife , but still she raced on . |