Example sentences of "have been [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 2 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 3 | This has been more like Labour conferences of old , with dust ups and cliff hanging votes , unlike last year 's sanitised affair . |
| 4 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 5 | I just wonder whether it might have been somewhere like — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It would have been just like Chris to hide the Grimoire down there , ’ Donna said , pointing towards the abyss beyond the steps . |
| 7 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 8 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 9 | The scene at the offices of BAeSEMA , the hi-tech computer design group , may have been more like a Blue Peter set than a serious example of the latest in navy design , but Adml Eaton appeared suitably impressed . |
| 10 | On the way in the train earlier she had pictured her meeting with Penry over and over again , but none of her imaginings had been remotely like the reality . |
| 11 | Now , if I had been more like you , Catherine … |
| 12 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 13 | His presidency , in other words , might have ended less ingloriously if he had been more like his successor in the White House . |
| 14 | If only Dana had been more like Myra . |
| 15 | I only wish there had been more like him in my life . ’ |
| 16 | The cheap attempt at humour had been too like a treacherous repudiation of Timmy whom he loved . |
| 17 | Yeah well it 's rare for me to come to the doctor 's but last three week I 've been here like every week , kind of thing . |
| 18 | She told The European newspaper : ‘ We have not been neutrals : we have been more like accomplices . ’ |
| 19 | You can tell she 's in a good mood from the number of bitchy remarks : from Glenys Kinnock 's dress sense ( ‘ Silly girl to be wearing Yves Saint Laurent ’ ) to the election campaign ( ‘ It 's been just like an American election : no ideas ’ ) to John Major 's now certain victory ( ‘ It 's conserved everything we 've stood for ’ — we , doubtless , in the sense of I ) . |
| 20 | Forget the last six months , admit it 's been more like a year , remove yourself from the desperate turns on the rack of rejection … at least you know how to love . |
| 21 | Miss Evans said , ‘ You might say he 's been more like a father to me than a brother . ’ |
| 22 | " It 's been more like six " |
| 23 | I 've only been here a matter of hours , but I feel as though it 's been more like a week ! ’ |