Example sentences of "they are like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each image is like a candle and it is for us to embroider our minds so that they are like the constellations of the heavens — Rumi 's harvest of stars . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ They are like the two sides of a coin , or rather a smooth unstamped metallic disc . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They are like the personality or spirit of the plant . |
| 6 | They are like the newly swept house of which our Lord spoke which was then taken over by more spirits than before ( Matt. |
| 7 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
| 8 | They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture . |
| 9 | The arms say the light of day in a short sleeved dress and they are like the arms of a prize fighter . |
| 10 | They are like the silk petal |
| 11 | We have several families who are of gipsy descent , whom we forget are gipsies because they are like the rest of us , but there are still gipsies who do not wish to live in houses . |