Example sentences of "be like the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those emigrés who have settled in Western society have found that their diaspora churches can not be like the great populist and establishment churches of Russia and Greece ; they have to survive as nonconformist ‘ sects ’ . |
| 2 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 3 | And then the lights all came on , and it would be like the hardest-to-bear dawn ever . |
| 4 | Even a kiss can be like the sharp end of a wedge which has the power to pierce our body chemistry , split open our emotional equilibrium and lead desires towards the bedroom far too prematurely . |
| 5 | Or would it be like the British poll tax , with rich and poor paying the same subject to a complicated system of rebates ? |
| 6 | Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens . |
| 7 | Normally , the pool would be like the proverbial dry gin — thanks to a device known as the ‘ Eradicator ’ . |
| 8 | Surely I can not be like the old murmuring Israelites , to long after the onions and garlic of Egypt when they had suffered there such heavy bondage ? |
| 9 | It 'll be like the old days . ’ |
| 10 | What used to be like the Old Vic has become the vaudeville of Thatcherism Undone . |
| 11 | it would be like the whole year was getting |
| 12 | So to sum up : if the words in a language are compared with the cards in a pack , the numbers in each suit would be like the open set classes . |
| 13 | It would be like the blessed relief of a coal fire after the dull , dry heat of an electric bar … |