Example sentences of "[noun prp] be like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment Gorbachev is like a juggler with a lot of balls in the air at once . |
| 2 | However , to avoid irrelevant uncertainties that might result from relying on assumptions about particular situations , we offer in ( 5 ) examples that actually meet the unnecessarily strict requirement of inclusion on the type level , but which we might reasonably claim as sentences that could be used by ordinary speakers in the right circumstances : ( 5 ) ( a ) some of the Buddhists were sheltered in Islamic mosques ( b ) the carnivorous leopard has much larger teeth than an antelope ( c ) after the barren desert , Kano is like a garden 7.2 It will be immediately evident that the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive does not concern any difference of intensional structure in the narrow sense , either in the relations involved , or in the nature of the elements related . |
| 3 | Richard was like a gusher of newly tapped oil spraying about in all directions . |
| 4 | Creed was like a gambler . |
| 5 | ‘ Kim is like a ray of sunshine , a wonderful and beautiful girl who has changed my life , ’ he told a TV audience in Hollywood . |
| 6 | ‘ Russia is like a horror movie , ’ she says . |
| 7 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 8 | Joe Strummer once said that listening to John Peel was like a dog being sick in your face . |
| 9 | Rodney was like a whirlwind and upset both people and animals ( cats , dogs and horses do not like sudden movements ) . |
| 10 | This Gruyère , from the Savoy is like a settler who knew to put himself forward leaving off the East countries for other lands . |
| 11 | Deliberately misconstruing the policeman 's words , he shook his head sadly and said , ‘ Mickey 's like a son to that man . |
| 12 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 13 | " Philip is like a son to me , " Mother used to say , long before he proposed to Enid . |
| 14 | I hear that a Weight Watchers class in central Paris is like a casting session for Dynasty . |
| 15 | The one time I feel sorry for the chaplain is when he falls into Madeline 's clutches , not that he minds but Trollope makes us aware that Signora Neroni is like a spider , trapping innocent people and sucking their will and life from them . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'll have to make Peking realise Hong Kong is like a jet , ’ said one analyst . |
| 17 | She was assailed by contrary , half-formed forebodings : Rosa was making an error of judgement , she was imagining things , or , even if she were n't , Tommaso was like a dustdevil , twisting this way and that . |
| 18 | His upward swing of mood since meeting Rose was like a glider flying above the clouds where all was serene . |
| 19 | Joan Durbeyfield was like a child herself , and never thought about the future . |
| 20 | This is not an experiment that can ever be done , although some people assume that certain remote and isolated faunas , such as those of Australia and Madagascar , can be treated as if they were ancient , as if a trip to Australia were like a trip backwards in a time machine . |
| 21 | It 's great for people like me who do research into politics and literature because you know , Johnson 's like a key to ev whatever he 's thinking at the time . |
| 22 | But it is possible for people growing up in a totally different culture to see kingship in terms of tyranny , in which case they would receive the statement that God is like a king as meaning that God is tyrannical , even some kind of dictator , so that religion resembles a prison rather than paradise . |
| 23 | The interior of The Lodge was like a show house , flashily furnished , expense no object . |
| 24 | That does n't happen when someone works with you as a director , and Jack was like a director , too . |
| 25 | While he was alive , Heathcliff was like a brother to Hindley and me . |
| 26 | C. Each separate city and town in Britain is like a magnet attracting people and industries towards it . |
| 27 | Every region here got this problem because all of you , every one of you have got local authority workers and other workers and Tylers is like a flea on a dog 's back it 's creeping in and they going , getting everywhere . |
| 28 | Romeo was I mean Juliet was like a child to me . |
| 29 | The night crossing to France was like a secret . |
| 30 | In form the Song of Roland is like a succession of vivid , jerky photographs , like an early motion picture ; it is as though the author had set out to describe something similar to the Bayeux Tapestry , depicting the tragedy , not of Harold , but of Roland . |