Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 2 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 3 | This has been more like Labour conferences of old , with dust ups and cliff hanging votes , unlike last year 's sanitised affair . |
| 4 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 5 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 6 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 7 | " It 's been more like six " |