Example sentences of "[noun pl] be like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the medical care , in a technical sense , is generally excellent in the municipal hospitals , all of which are affiliated to major teaching centres to try to ensure high standards , these institutions are like the NHS only more so . |
| 2 | Robert Tisserand in ’ The Art of Aromatherapy ’ states that essences are like the blood of a person . |
| 3 | The election posters that still litter our cities are like the documentary fragments of some remote and arcane historical dispute . |
| 4 | But musically at least , you 've moved from Stooges-meets-Beefheart conflagration to something more classically structured : the songs are like the charred and gutted husks of magnificent pop architecture . |
| 5 | I hold him up like he was an old coat at a jumble sale , and his eyes are like a frightened rabbit . |
| 6 | His eyes are like the over-tired eyes of an engraver |
| 7 | The units are like the fruit on the tree . |
| 8 | Computers are like a foreign country in many ways . |
| 9 | It is as if we have frozen the beauty or anaesthetized it in an image ; but the images are like the humming birds of a museum case , the real and living beauty is incomparably brighter for those birds are gems that flash their iridiscent colours in a tropical forest . |
| 10 | These words are like the click of a door shutting on the illusion of love . |
| 11 | I often think that our sociological relationships are like an action in which each person is a small knot so that we can influence the common situation in four directions . |
| 12 | Roman 's words were like a drug , pouring over her , evoking those helpless , hypnotic feelings of need and desire and hunger all over again . |
| 13 | The words were like a slap in the face . |
| 14 | The coolly spoken words were like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in her face , but instead of restoring her composure it had the opposite effect of stoking her anger all the more . |
| 15 | His words were like a slap across her face . |
| 16 | His words were like a sharp slap that brought her to her senses . |
| 17 | His words were like a body-blow . |
| 18 | I was never thin like that and your father was a great big man , his legs were like the trunk of a tree . ’ |
| 19 | Sometimes her eyes were like a satellite picture of earth , a marble swirling in space . |
| 20 | The tallest of the men looked down at Ruth ; his hair was bright silver , and his gold eyes were like an eagle 's . |
| 21 | The Chinese imagined that the Scots were like the Albanians — and appropriately enough we were taken to the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune . ) |
| 22 | These homes were like an unsavoury silo , places to store people rather than house them . |
| 23 | George feels that he has to make a decision on how to approach the next phase : ‘ Though I did n't wish to retire , the first three months were like a holiday . |
| 24 | The hammering of her heart in her ears was like a drum beating . |
| 25 | His name on her lips was like a plea , and with one swift movement he gathered her into his arms , pressing her against his powerful chest . |
| 26 | Eighteen months was like a lifetime . |
| 27 | His prayers are like the noise you make to drown out an insupportable thought . |
| 28 | His lips were drawn back in a snarl of pain , his skinny white limbs were like a frozen chicken 's . |
| 29 | Our movements were like a formal dance , always related to each other . |
| 30 | The draught on street corners is like a tropical breeze . |