Example sentences of "be [pron] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So suddenly , David had wanted something — I do n't know what it was — it might have been something like a synthesizer or some extraordinary thing for the show , but the money was n't there . |
| 2 | In a mature oil province like the North Sea , most of the large fields have certainly been discovered and the fields of the future will be nothing like the size of the giant fields of Brent , Ninian and Forties . |
| 3 | If not , wood would be something like a lump of sugar : homogeneous but weak and brittle . |
| 4 | ‘ Go on , go on — what would be something like an answer ? ’ |
| 5 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 6 | Most of it happened thanks to tireless negotiations with opera houses , TV crews and recording companies in the west , but it has not so far turned out to be anything like a pact with the devil . |
| 7 | The total effect was unlikely to be anything like the boost needed to lift the economy . |
| 8 | And I never r expected it to be anything like the end result , I mean the reaction to it 's been fantastic in the last two years . |
| 9 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 10 | Were it like a timeshare ? |
| 11 | There 's nothing like a steam railway to evoke the atmosphere needed for a truly British Romantic film set in days gone by . |
| 12 | ‘ My wife says there 's nothing like a romance . |
| 13 | And there 's nothing like a conversation when you smoke . |
| 14 | I sat a moment cursing the junkie builders , then suddenly the thought came : Hang on , Jimbo , this could be good news ( there 's nothing like a crack on the nut with a lead pipe to wake a body up ) , this could mean we 've got fresh water piped to the back door whenever it rains , and sucks to the waterboard . |
| 15 | Facing page : there 's nothing like a brew to soothe aching limbs but where 's the Kendal Mint cake ? |
| 16 | Basically , there 's nothing like a combo for doing that . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There 's nothing like a cup of tea , dear , ’ she said comfortingly , as she filled it . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's nothing like the lake and the open air for powdering through the lessons . ’ |
| 19 | There 's nothing like the birth of a baby to get life into perspective . |
| 20 | There 's nothing like an Epsom , there 's nothing like the variety that our jockeys have to cope with |
| 21 | In Germany , for example , there 's nothing like the division between Parliament and Government that I was speaking of erm as far as France was concerned , erm nor is there to quite the same extent erm the sort of links between administrative politicians and political administrators , but one of the things they share in common is a tendency to have a legal background and a legal approach to administration , and almost all senior civil servants in Germany , for example , have gone through a legal training . |
| 22 | Everton 's Peter Beardsley made a less optimistic assessment : ‘ When we get players injured there 's nothing like the depth of talent in reserve here that I was used to at Liverpool . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's desert to cross , but it 's nothing like the G'bai . ’ |
| 24 | I thought it wa he 'll tell me if it 's nothing like the taste of |
| 25 | 'Cause there 's nothing like the feeling when that Tower comes into view |
| 26 | The thing is , there is nothing like a bike for sheer visceral excitement . |
| 27 | THERE is nothing like a holiday to rekindle the flames of passion . |
| 28 | There is nothing like a band of men in their working environment to make a single female feel like a page three Martian . |
| 29 | She had decided to have a look at the human face of the bogey , and there is nothing like a dog ( the only animal which trusts humans ! ) for starting a conversation . |
| 30 | Predictably Michael Palin 's Pole to Pole was the runaway Christmas hit , proving once again that there is nothing like a television series to help sales of a book — Heffers sold between 1,300 and 1,400 copies . |