Example sentences of "[is] [pron] like the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second team or not , however , there 's nothing like the first century . |
| 2 | Ach , there 's nothing like the primitive life , is there ? ’ |
| 3 | There 's nothing like the soft texture and colour of old fabrics : learn to use and take care of them . ’ |
| 4 | Never mind the sequels , there 's nothing like the original and the proudest treasure in the archives of the Oxford University Press remains this early edition of Samuel Johnson 's very first English dictionary . |
| 5 | You know , if there 's nothing like the last week then Did you have your tea Danny ? |
| 6 | This is a superficially attractive theory , but the proposed phoneme is nothing like the other phonemes we have identified up to this point — putting it simply , it does n't have any sound . |
| 7 | Traditionalists may huff and puff and say there is nothing like the real thing ; aesthetes may deplore the destruction of mystery ; but for most of us it proves as enthralling as exploring a maze . |
| 8 | In other words , a classical " solar system " atom under electromagnetic forces is nothing like the actual solar system held together by gravitational forces . |
| 9 | If she is ever going to learn to stand on her own feet finally , when her grieving is over , she will need your acceptance , for the time being , that what she is experiencing now is something like the intense suffering of a child separated from the security of its mother 's presence , with all the feelings of fear and panic that brings . |
| 10 | ‘ Copper Blue ’ has a more upbeat fictional stories — Man On The Moon is almost like a limerick or something from a children 's book — but on the other hand there 's something like The Slim , which might be the harshest thing I 've ever written . |
| 11 | Or is it like the first ? ’ |
| 12 | No longer is it like the fifties when councils dictated to tenants how things would be . |