Example sentences of "[be] like [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're like the arms of the same monster . ’ |
| 2 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 3 | ‘ I bet you 've been discussing it with Ian , who , nice as he is , is a male vet , and they 're like the farmers . |
| 4 | P : ‘ Not if they 're like the ones you gave me last week ! ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes — on ‘ Love ’ — they 're like the Pixies on a dump-truck full of downers . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're like The Eagles while we 're like Eddie & The Hot Rods … ‘ |
| 7 | They 're like the emperors of old : they do n't like bad news , so their servants make sure the truth never gets through to them . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 9 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |
| 10 | He said ; The Hungarians are like the Russians they do n't like to use caged animals . |
| 11 | You are like the Pharisees and the hypocrites ! ’ |
| 12 | Yet they are like the cases which follow in that they do not directly ask the trustee to do anything , but none the less cause an obligation under trust to arise in him . |
| 13 | Whereas fast compound curves suggest smoke , silks and delicate , tenuous traceries drawn by a breeze , slow compound curves are like the muscles of a weight lifter — powerful , even ponderous and writhing when taken to extremes . |
| 14 | We are like the sparks ; to grow , to be capable of greater joy we must go through and experience the suffering and the sorrow . |
| 15 | The arms say the light of day in a short sleeved dress and they are like the arms of a prize fighter . |
| 16 | Each image is like a candle and it is for us to embroider our minds so that they are like the constellations of the heavens — Rumi 's harvest of stars . |
| 17 | If we do not ask these questions , can we be sure we have not abandoned the search at too early a point , so that we are like the police officer who judges too soon that the death in a detective story was a suicide and not a murder ? |
| 18 | Gays in the church , for example , are like the canaries in the Welsh mines , leading the way for others . ’ |
| 19 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
| 20 | ‘ Single malt whiskies are like the Chateaux of Bordeaux , ’ says Allan Schiach , Chairman of The Macallan , one of Scotland 's best known malts . |
| 21 | I am just able to discern the formalities which are like the horns of ships circling in the fog to dock . |
| 22 | Even the tatty Dolphinarium suggests a forgotten fair-ground in the dark , and the pier timbers are like the legs of an artificial dinosaur , sturdy and reassuring in the gloom . |
| 23 | The instructions provide a generative programme , the folding and unfolding are like the contractions and changes in contact in cell sheets in the embryo . |
| 24 | These bonds are more subtle than gossamer strands of spiders in the grass and are like the fields of force of electricity or gravity . |
| 25 | Operational balances in the Bank of England are like the banks ' own current accounts and are used for clearing purposes . |
| 26 | In many ways the fibres of Parameta are like the hairs of animal fur — tightly packed at source and more open towards the outside . |
| 27 | I am like the leaves and flowers of ikebana , with roots cut off , stuck in a spiked metal holder ( kenzan ) instead of in the earth . |
| 28 | I 'm like a corgi — I keep smiling while my teeth are firmly dug in . |
| 29 | You know , I 'm like the others |
| 30 | You do n't know what it 'll be like , if it 'll be like the scenes you see on the news every night . |