Example sentences of "is like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we make love for the second time this throbbing afternoon it is like lingering over liqueurs by a log fire . |
| 2 | She had another prescription and it was nearly three weeks and she still , now , I mean this is like Five weeks she 's still got like a residual |
| 3 | For me , electricity generation is like oral sex by the sea on a breezy January night . |
| 4 | But Ireland is like four pitched roofs built around a central depression . |
| 5 | Our normal reality is like each of us living in a tiny , windowless cell in a house that contains a hundred thousand rooms and covers a thousand acres of land . |
| 6 | ‘ It is like Hallow-fair from Ballinluig up to Blair . |
| 7 | Shamim 's village is like many others from which Pakistani immigrants have come to Britain . |
| 8 | His small farm is like many others on the lower land of Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | If your programme is like many we have seen , you will probably have more than 10 lectures per week , and you will have to work with greater efficiency and use more of the available 36 hours . |
| 10 | You see , the the erm wait a minute the womb is like two knuckles together like that , wh when you conceive they close like two bones you see they close , and they if you want to get rid you 've got to open it which is which is damned hard work and of course terrible pain attached to it . |
| 11 | And this is like two day where I just aching , burning . |
| 12 | Albert , she had remarked — Rose had n't known Twitch even had a Christian name — is like pummy stone , whereas Naseby ( who had had a definite smirk on his face when he saw her new hat ) is like Irritating Plaster , he causes irruptions . |
| 13 | A basic starting point for us is , then , that concepts and theories give meaning to potentially observable things and events , and in this sociology is like other sciences . |
| 14 | In its simple manner it is like other contemporary examples in Germany , Yugoslavia , Italy or Greece , and the building style resembles some Anglo-Saxon structures in England ( 351 ) . |
| 15 | Ca n't erm like the one she 's got upstairs is like all she was quite happy with is a seventy pound one . |
| 16 | But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert . |
| 17 | His job is like that of a matador brought on to pitch final one or two innings when Oakland have the lead and need to kill off any opposition rally . |
| 18 | In all these cases the reaction of society as a whole in the face of ‘ The Thing ’ is like that of an organism attacked by a parasite , or a specialised aggressor : it behaves in exactly the way which renders the aggression successful . |
| 19 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 20 | The adrenalin rhythm is like that of body temperature , therefore , in its general timing and its general integration with the sleep/wake cycle . |
| 21 | There is an order in these works , but it is like that at the centre of an explosion , and all over their surfaces there is a terrible indifference to everything that is sentient . |
| 22 | Not everyone is like that , but I still think your future lies off-world . |
| 23 | Prejudice is like that . |
| 24 | ‘ Every school is like that , I 'm afraid , ’ she replied . |
| 25 | Somebody like Meiselas is like that , Gilles Peress ; they do n't work on a story unless they get emotionally connected to it — why bother ? — to them . |
| 26 | The Middle East is like that . |
| 27 | It genuinely is like that and a statement like ‘ Mwat Is Murder ’ causes offence to the strictly guarded view of the nice , normal family . ) |
| 28 | The philosophy of the Sufis is like that of Epictetus for it also uses the magic wand to transform the bad into good . |
| 29 | When you are getting on really well with someone , stop for a moment and notice if your body language is like that of your friend . |
| 30 | But politics is like that , is n't it . ’ |