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Example sentences of "[is] like " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	One view of the art market is that it is like a staircase with several landings .
2	The curator 's nightmare is somewhere like the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , where the number of items is like grains of sand on the sea shore .
3	It is clear enough , none the less , that the hero of that time is like the hero of some other times , including Hamlet 's .
4	To read about her here is like being shown someone 's snaps or scrapbook — perhaps an underrated pleasure .
5	It is like an evening spent in a restaurant — let's say Olwen 's French Club , mentioned on page one , a latter-day refuge of the Chelsea set — listening to a story of mutual friends .
6	The Facts presents , among its various dualities , the reminder that the one and only Philip Roth is like Saul Bellow .
7	He is like the poet Ausonius , alas — that Silver Age abstainer from the world and connoisseur of oysters .
8	The image — summoned by a narrator whose exhausted dreams are filled with girls — is like nothing we would ever meet in the literal Levi .
9	James Kelman 's stories make clear what life is like in Glasgow , and what James Kelman 's life is like .
10	James Kelman 's stories make clear what life is like in Glasgow , and what James Kelman 's life is like .
11	Doyle 's greyhound is a pair of electricians ' pipes , which he lights upon , paints and plays , producing a doleful sound that soothes him — it is like mumbling your mantra or telling your beads .
12	A woman that is like a German clock ,
13	He said your body is like a book in which men may read strange things , a foreign country in which they may travel with delight .
14	For thirty minutes it is like trying to push a marshmallow into a coinbox .
15	That it is like the mind itself .
16	Work on it is like a dream , or like thoughts of what a work would be like .
17	That is why producing yet more images , he wrote , is like eating cardboard .
18	On the one hand , he wrote , it is like everything else in the gallery , on the other it is opposed to everything in the gallery .
19	A house of sin you may call it , but not a house of darkness for the candles are never out , and it is like those countries far in the north where it is as clear at mid-night as at mid-day …
20	But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert .
21	Shot entirely on location in South Central LA , the film aims to give the first true picture of what life is like in the ‘ LA Hood ’ .
22	Flying in even light snow is like being in a fog , and unless you are up high and can manage to fly clear on instruments , you are liable to have real trouble .
23	‘ It is like Hallow-fair from Ballinluig up to Blair .
24	It is like hanging day in the Grassmarket .
25	‘ This is like Paradise .
26	This might be characterized as ‘ what it is like to see ’ or ‘ what things look like ’ or , most especially , ‘ what colours are like ’ ( that is , what they look like — there is no difference in their case ) .
27	BS is supposed to have complete scientific knowledge of V and his physical environment when V sees : yet BS does not know what it is like for V to see , what colours look like , etcetera .
28	BS is like a man who knows all about swimming , even to the point of being able to train the Olympic team , but who can not swim himself , and V is the man with the normal talent for swimming .
29	Differentiating modes of access seems relevant only because of the covert assumption that different ways of knowing feel different — that is , what it is like to have those experiences is different .
30	He combines the view that what it is like to see , for example colour is something BS would come to know on gaining his sight , with the view that what it is like to see , for example , colour is not a further fact in addition to the physical facts about the brain ( p. 146f ) .