Example sentences of "be like the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're like the arms of the same monster . ’ |
| 2 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 3 | ‘ I bet you 've been discussing it with Ian , who , nice as he is , is a male vet , and they 're like the farmers . |
| 4 | Xanthe likes this bit , she has blue eyes and fancies they 're like the sky . |
| 5 | P : ‘ Not if they 're like the ones you gave me last week ! ’ |
| 6 | Now , if you 're going to er er er er want everything and then at the same time , want to reduce the budget , then I think you 're like the man who wanted a cake an and you 'll find that he wanted to eat it , so I think you 've got to come to terms and be realistic . |
| 7 | Sometimes — on ‘ Love ’ — they 're like the Pixies on a dump-truck full of downers . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're like The Eagles while we 're like Eddie & The Hot Rods … ‘ |
| 9 | and you 're like the horse fair |
| 10 | They 're like the emperors of old : they do n't like bad news , so their servants make sure the truth never gets through to them . |
| 11 | They 're like the weather . |
| 12 | Some national newspapers have begun , in their obituary columns , to acknowledge that their subjects , no matter how distinguished , have been like the rest of us , part saint , part sinner . |
| 13 | Sunderland defender Terry Butcher admitted : ‘ If Derby had scored it would have been like the Alamo . |
| 14 | The names which have previously confused scholars would in effect have been like the variety of names used for , say , a contemporary political party or , at most , for the spectrum of groups and individuals which coalesced into a single movement — the French Resistance , during the German occupation . |
| 15 | She 'd have been like the Mercedes , another symbol of his wealth and authority . |
| 16 | It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band . |
| 17 | In one family the daughters " attended dances " regularly , but these can hardly have been like the dance-halls of the inter-war period . |
| 18 | And all my Thoughts are like the Winter , sad ! |
| 19 | The election posters that still litter our cities are like the documentary fragments of some remote and arcane historical dispute . |
| 20 | The units are like the fruit on the tree . |
| 21 | Fifteen and the thirty are like the A teams |
| 22 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 23 | These words are like the click of a door shutting on the illusion of love . |
| 24 | He said ; The Hungarians are like the Russians they do n't like to use caged animals . |
| 25 | The best-known lepton is the electron , but as well as the neutrinos the lepton family also includes the muon and the tau , both of which are like the electron but are respectively 210 and 3500 times heavier . |
| 26 | You are like the Pharisees and the hypocrites ! ’ |
| 27 | The digestive systems can be divided into the non-ruminants ( the zebra , which is like the horse ) and the ruminants ( wildebeest , topi , and gazelle , which are like the cow ) . |
| 28 | Yet they are like the cases which follow in that they do not directly ask the trustee to do anything , but none the less cause an obligation under trust to arise in him . |
| 29 | You are like the prisoner who is honourably circumspect but who gets turned in by an accomplice . |
| 30 | They were portrayed as somebody above us — and once it was seen they are not , everyone could see they are like the rest of us . |