Example sentences of "would [be] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I just erm read the question like and I just I I I thought it 'd be like a triangle , you work it out on the triangle and then I thought no that |
| 2 | In one way he was glad to be interrupted — superstitiously afraid that if of his own volition he decided to leave the miraculous spot then the unique mood would not follow him and he would be like a man without a shadow . |
| 3 | If one day you found he did n't , it would be like a blasphemy . |
| 4 | That would be like a holiday in itself . |
| 5 | Even the knowledge that they 'd been invited to submit ideas would be like a shot of adrenalin . |
| 6 | In effect , each DHA would be like a Health Maintenance Organisation . |
| 7 | Without that the royal authority could not be exercised , and the realm would be like a ship lacking a rudder . |
| 8 | The victor , presumably Ken Clarke , would be like a Goth or Vandal marching into the smoking ruins of Rome . |
| 9 | I suppose I thought it would be like a hospital ward , but it 's quite like an ordinary nursery , really , except it 's so dull . |
| 10 | Its stopping would be like a death in the family . |
| 11 | Displays would either flick between functions at the touch of a button or would be like a television screen , showing all sorts of information at once . |
| 12 | Now that Travis had got hold of the scent he would be like a bloodhound , and there was no knowing what Lori would inadvertently reveal . |
| 13 | The only shelter he could see was the church , but it would be like an ice box inside . |
| 14 | The wonderful vision arose of a publication which would be like the minutes of a gigantic nationwide meeting . |
| 15 | It would be like the denizens of Magdalen Bridge claiming they drank VP sherry rather than Tio Pepe because they preferred the taste . |
| 16 | It would be like the elves to know a Saviour would come to men , without having the slightest or remotest idea of the mingled horror and beauty with which that event would come about . |
| 17 | If the world was a bathtub , the progress of the Ship through it would be like the soap , shooting backwards and forwards and never being where anyone was expecting it to be . |
| 18 | Continued economic expansion and the widespread belief that Keynesian economic techniques provided governments with an effective tool for managing the economy had engendered the belief that the future would be like the present , but better , that economic growth would simply continue into the indefinite future , bringing more and greater benefits to all segments of society . |
| 19 | They would be like the surface of the earth , but with two more dimensions . |
| 20 | They would be like the surface of the earth but with two more dimensions . |
| 21 | Space-time would be like the surface of the earth , only with two more dimensions . |
| 22 | This would mean that the contracting phase would be like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 23 | Unless it received an abort message from Nicaea its self destruction would be like the force of a sun collapsing , wrenching this star system apart . |
| 24 | It would be like the attempt to look directly at the sun that dazzles and finally blinds rather than enlightens . |
| 25 | We think evolution took place not by sort of hitting in one bang the right answer — that would be like the surgeon moving his scalpel a foot and hitting the right point , but by successive changes , changing one amino acid at a time , each change being a slight improvement on what was there before . |