Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a great lake and on it were flamingos like the ones you see every day on Three Island Pond . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's times like that when his work gets in the way most . ’ |
| 3 | It 's times like these when my job is made very difficult . |
| 4 | But it 's times like that when you find who your friends are . |
| 5 | It 's firms like ABT which may hold the key to recovery . |
| 6 | It 's attitudes like that which so frustrate doctors . |
| 7 | It 's queues like this which the new system is intended to shift . |
| 8 | It 's scenes like this that sheep farmers prefer to see , the Ewe licking her newborn lamb clean , forming a close bond in the process . |
| 9 | It 's scenes like these which Ruth Hilali claims to have come to Kurdistan to deal with . |
| 10 | There 's this film like you know , when it 's turn like cinema or not , Silvester Stallone , and it 's called Oscar , did you ever see the preview of that ? |
| 11 | It 's records like this that make me pissed off with political thrashcore . |
| 12 | It 's things like this er , five my father 's getting excited ! |
| 13 | And , it 's things like that I ne , hope and anticipate that we can actually . |
| 14 | It 's things like that keep everything going , is n't it ? |
| 15 | And when it 's things like division by zero , that 's the time to , to s back off and say , well , we 've got a model that works , that side of zero and that side of zero . |
| 16 | It 's Garrimpos like this that are doing the damage . |
| 17 | Back in Bolivia it 's women like Serapia con Quispe who pray that the Oxfam funding continues . |
| 18 | It 's blokes like him who get the National Health Service a good name . |
| 19 | And I know his name not it 's sommat like erm who can I say . |
| 20 | ‘ Trouble is , it 's businesses like ours that are gon na suffer , ’ Carrie went on . |
| 21 | It 's problems like this that have convinced environmental campaigner , Julian Jones that Severn Trent Water is failing to meet its duty to control pollution . |
| 22 | It 's work like this from the front line of action as it happens , that has provided some of the most spectacular photographs held by one of the world 's largest picture agencies , Popperfoto . |
| 23 | And it 's figures like that , which reinforce Judge Tumim 's view , that another one like it should be established elsewhere in the country . |
| 24 | And the future of it 's beers like Old Speckled Hen and Morland 's Original would be reviewed . |
| 25 | It 's jobs like these that earn me my pocket money — forty pence weekly which goes straight in my savings account . |
| 26 | Langbaurgh is still a key marginal and if the Tories want to form the next Government , it 's seat like these they need to win and to win well . |
| 27 | At one time , IBM Corp 's shares regularly got so heavy that the company would split them to make them more marketable , a move that usually tends to increase the value of a company in the market : those days are long gone for IBM , and now it 's upstarts like Intel Corp that are able to flex their financial muscles : its board has approved a two-for-one split , and shareholders will vote on the proposal on May 5 . |
| 28 | It 's antics like this which have become a major problem in towns and cities up and down the country in recent years , generating fear on estates like Blackbird Leys in Oxford . |
| 29 | Go to a road race or track meet in Britain or Europe and it 's people like Alan you 'll see . |
| 30 | It 's people like that who get other people killed on the roads ! |