Example sentences of "[be] [adv] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so I am rather like the doctor by the patient 's bedside , who knows ; although of course he does not tell the patient — that the outcome of the disease will depend upon something in the constitution of that patient which he can not control nor further influence and which he can not even ascertain , except by the event . |
| 2 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
| 3 | These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one . |
| 4 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |
| 5 | These are rather like the process of bereavement , with shock , denial , guilt and unhappiness , acceptance and resignation . |
| 6 | Hence they are rather like the overdraft limit placed on a private sector customer by its bank . |
| 7 | They are rather like the markers teachers use to signal transitions in lessons : ‘ Right ! ’ , or ‘ OK , let's get started ! ’ |
| 8 | The korai , and a fine Nike-akroterion , are strikingly like the big kore 681 from the Acropolis , fig. 35 . |
| 9 | The Basques and Navarrese are much like the Gascons — only worse . |
| 10 | They are much like the legends , but as to what that means — ‘ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , ’ she said , ‘ I see that for all your fine words you are much like the rest , ’ and there were tears in her eyes when she turned away from him . |
| 12 | He formulated explicit definitions of ‘ necessity ’ and ‘ contingency ’ that are somewhat like the modern definitions of ‘ analytic ’ and ‘ synthetic ’ : ' The necessary is a possibility , the contradiction of which is impossible , but the contingent is a possibility , the contradiction of which is also possible . |
| 13 | They are so like the television it 's sometimes hard to see why they are being done on a stage . |
| 14 | Investigations by S. E. Winbolt showed that the first two had small rectangular enclosures of about three acres and these are so like the burgi on Watling Street that it is not impossible that they represent part of the fortified system established by Constantius Chlorus , although the dating evidence indicates an earlier origin . |
| 15 | You can tell she 's in a good mood from the number of bitchy remarks : from Glenys Kinnock 's dress sense ( ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves Saint Laurent ’ ) to the election campaign ( ‘ It 's been just like an American election : no ideas ’ ) to John Major 's now certain victory ( ‘ It 's conserved everything we 've stood for ’ — we , doubtless , in the sense of I ) . |
| 16 | ‘ These goats are just like a lot of prep . |
| 17 | Are just like a couple of tots . |
| 18 | And secretary Marie Daimier , 25 , said : ‘ They are just like the rest of us — but it 's a shame for the children . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Also , with Chernobyl still fresh in everyone 's mind I thought it might be a good idea to show that workers in the nuclear industry are just like the rest of us . |
| 20 | The point of doing this is not to suggest that Western organizations are just like the modernist ideal type . |
| 21 | Orc and Goblin units are called Mobs , but in other respects they are exactly like the regiments of Men and Elves . |
| 22 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 23 | " You 're inside like a passenger . |
| 24 | They 're normally like a two hundred and fifty , three hundred quid one |
| 25 | Erm , by having know that the land grows the weeds and no pesticides not disturbed , there 's no shooting , they 're never shot around here , the birds can come in sheltered , you know , they , they 're just like a little nature reserve , protected area , game park you know , nothing shot at just left and er they like it obviously , I mean it 's like anything once it learns that er it 's gon na be left alone it comes again and again . |
| 26 | Grattan Direct Line and we 're just like a company Grattan but Grattan own it sort of thing and basically what it is , it 's a daily delivery to the door . |
| 27 | It begins with Thom gazing at the object of his fixation , flattering her with couplets like , ‘ You 're just like an angel/Your skin makes me cry . ’ |
| 28 | When it comes to going in , doing a job and getting out , they 're just like the SAS . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You 're just like the rest . |
| 30 | Well they 're just like the first one . |