Example sentences of "be like those [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 2 | Its last hours are like those of Camembert ; it becomes a liquid smelly mess and runs out of the joint , leaving only a dirty mark behind . |
| 3 | The local symmetry of M-PH 3 is C 3 ν and the PH 3 modes are like those of the CH 3 group in CH 3 X. There are a 1 and e PH stretches , a 1 and e PH 3 deformations , and e PH 3 rocks . |
| 4 | The conspicuous features are like those for general insurance companies , but more so . |
| 5 | Tammuz would fall into hir , as if with desperation ; his cries were like those of pain . |
| 6 | Her belly swayed , her ankles were like those of a woman with dropsy . |
| 7 | God 's laws of nature were like those of the Medes and the Persians , which changed not ; but they were not necessary laws which could not have been otherwise . |