Example sentences of "[be] like the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xanthe likes this bit , she has blue eyes and fancies they 're like the sky . |
| 2 | Now , if you 're going to er er er er want everything and then at the same time , want to reduce the budget , then I think you 're like the man who wanted a cake an and you 'll find that he wanted to eat it , so I think you 've got to come to terms and be realistic . |
| 3 | and you 're like the horse fair |
| 4 | They 're like the weather . |
| 5 | Thou art like the harpy |
| 6 | Some national newspapers have begun , in their obituary columns , to acknowledge that their subjects , no matter how distinguished , have been like the rest of us , part saint , part sinner . |
| 7 | Sunderland defender Terry Butcher admitted : ‘ If Derby had scored it would have been like the Alamo . |
| 8 | The names which have previously confused scholars would in effect have been like the variety of names used for , say , a contemporary political party or , at most , for the spectrum of groups and individuals which coalesced into a single movement — the French Resistance , during the German occupation . |
| 9 | And all my Thoughts are like the Winter , sad ! |
| 10 | The election posters that still litter our cities are like the documentary fragments of some remote and arcane historical dispute . |
| 11 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 12 | These words are like the click of a door shutting on the illusion of love . |
| 13 | The best-known lepton is the electron , but as well as the neutrinos the lepton family also includes the muon and the tau , both of which are like the electron but are respectively 210 and 3500 times heavier . |
| 14 | The digestive systems can be divided into the non-ruminants ( the zebra , which is like the horse ) and the ruminants ( wildebeest , topi , and gazelle , which are like the cow ) . |
| 15 | You are like the prisoner who is honourably circumspect but who gets turned in by an accomplice . |
| 16 | They were portrayed as somebody above us — and once it was seen they are not , everyone could see they are like the rest of us . |
| 17 | Solicitors handling debt collecting and documentation for credit control are like the rest of society . |
| 18 | We have several families who are of gipsy descent , whom we forget are gipsies because they are like the rest of us , but there are still gipsies who do not wish to live in houses . |
| 19 | However , the value of a field and its rate of change with time are like the position and velocity of a particle : the uncertainty principle implies that the more accurately one knows one of these quantities , the less accurately one can know the other . |
| 20 | Are racial double standards ( viz. , good/bad natives ) and double binds ( damned if you are different and damned if you are like the master race ) a function of this contradictory or dual relation to the Other ? |
| 21 | The winds around the Italian islands in the northern Tyrrhenian Sea are like the country 's drivers : unpredictable , given to sudden shifts , occasionally very noisy , but generally safe . |
| 22 | The stars , to me , are like pins and needles , are like the routemap of a nightmare . |
| 23 | His prayers are like the noise you make to drown out an insupportable thought . |
| 24 | He says , the wicked are like the tossing sea , and you know , as far the bible is concerned , the wicked is not necessarily the man or the woman who does terrible deeds , the wicked is not necessarily who is , who is a murderer , or a child molesterer , or a thief or or or a wife beater or something like that , the wicked is the person who rejects God , who turns their back on God , who says thank you , I can go through my life without , I do n't need you , I do n't even believe you exist , and even if I do believe you exist I 'm gon na do things my way , I 'm gon na go through life as I choose . |
| 25 | And God says the wicked are like the tossing sea , for it can not be quiet , and it 's waters toss up refuse and mud . |
| 26 | They are like the silk petal |
| 27 | Robert Tisserand in ’ The Art of Aromatherapy ’ states that essences are like the blood of a person . |
| 28 | They are like the personality or spirit of the plant . |
| 29 | Mountains in the tropics are like the world in miniature : hot wet forest at the bottom , cold and tundra-like at the top , and everything in between . |
| 30 | I am like the child spell-bound by the accumulated powers of the night , — darkness , the sound of silence , loneliness , infinite possibility , all mingled in a vast horror . |