Example sentences of "it be like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or would it be like the British poll tax , with rich and poor paying the same subject to a complicated system of rebates ? |
| 2 | It were like a it were like a a toffee . |
| 3 | It were like a it were like a a toffee . |
| 4 | Well i it were like a proper , er i in fact , they were more professional than a proper salon . |
| 5 | she found this booklet and it were like a cheque book |
| 6 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 7 | But he would give her anything then but it were like the doctor said it was too late . |
| 8 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 9 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 10 | I was just envisaging it being like a rabbit or something . |
| 11 | Well he chips it properly up in the air , but it 's like no power there so it just hit the roof and like Nicky just put it forward . |
| 12 | With a man it 's like a rocket : it fires and goes into orbit or it crashes . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's like a feeling , you know you 're Irish even if you 're born here . ’ |
| 14 | It 's like a friendly aunt |
| 15 | ‘ But the German system appears to have no place for the producer — it 's like a final , ridiculous culmination of the auteur theory , which insisted that movies are made by directors rather than producers — and so it has no room for that kind of creative argument . ’ |
| 16 | It 's like a dream . |
| 17 | It 's like a big marble — real heavy , like — and when you look through it everything goes upside down . |
| 18 | It 's like a little boat , bobbing there , up and down . |
| 19 | It 's like a fairground . |
| 20 | It 's like a little cave in there in the dark with her rags and her bits of cardboard — like a cave and she 's an animal who lives there and is all scared and angry when someone comes in by accident . |
| 21 | All these faces sliding past me , all lit up in the light — it 's like a dream . |
| 22 | It 's like a bath , stepping into a hot bath of all these colours . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's like a time bomb you carry round with you , ’ Arty said , ‘ and the alarm might n't go off for twenty-five years . ’ |
| 24 | It 's like a B-movie from a past of happier memories , turned against itself by the one British director who truly understands the mode . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's like a shopfront with a little bit of dust in the corner . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ All these conflicting views — it 's like a soap opera , living in my family , ’ said Alastair . |
| 27 | It 's like a gun . |
| 28 | Where I live it 's like a real community black , white , half-caste . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's like a rave every week . |
| 30 | ‘ When I came such a strategy to the Wall Street Journal : ‘ It 's like a company choosing a franchise : you want one on a busy corner , not in the middle of nowhere . ’ |