Example sentences of "be more like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes they 're more sophisticated , and what I 'm concerned about is whether we have the right back up to be able to sustain a war erm there at present the war is more like a blitzkrieg which the Germans used at the start of the second world war |
| 2 | I think that 's technically a , a draughtsman though is it , that 's more like a more what we call a design commission . |
| 3 | It was the American equivalent to the Bren gun only it , it was more like a rifle , it had n't got a stand , you know , more like a rifle butt , you know . |
| 4 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 5 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 6 | but it was , to me , it was more like a erm er , er a sponge erm like a pudding sponge . |
| 7 | but this cake that I made erm we thought was more like a a pudding and I |
| 8 | This was n't quite that it was more like a glossy young holly leaf oh it was beautiful ! |
| 9 | the girls ' bedrooms which was more like a boxroom than a bedroom before |
| 10 | she was more like a bloke |
| 11 | He was , he was more like a pantomime character , how , character you 'd see on the stage |
| 12 | Well that was that was more like a meal were n't it ? |
| 13 | Was more like a drop and come out your hand . |
| 14 | I think the atmosphere is certainly lost and the environment is different today without the patients , and their attitude was that this was more like a family than a hospital ward and they were treated as family . |