Example sentences of "is [adv] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blaming terracing alone for the tragedy is rather like banning cars after a fatal accident . |
| 2 | ‘ My wife bought me a small kit to try out using wool — which is rather like painting by numbers — and I have not looked back since . ’ |
| 3 | Making sense of the National Curriculum , at the moment of its introduction , is rather like making sense of a jigsaw with no picture on the box and half of the pieces missing . |
| 4 | It is rather like competition in the market place , only the costs of failure are very much higher , involving violence and anarchy . |
| 5 | Fiction , then , is rather like architecture or plumbing — a necessary art . |
| 6 | Honeydew is rather like junk food ; it is high in sugar , but can be low in amino acids , the building blocks of proteins . |
| 7 | House-buying is rather like drinking wine . |
| 8 | Living in France … is rather like walking round a national exhibition , entering one fantastic and beautiful structure after another , the Lévi-Strauss Palace , the Derrida Daedalus , the Lacan Labyrinth , the Kristeva Construct , the Barthes Pavilion , the Planetarium showing the Sollers System . |
| 9 | As my husband says , ‘ Thatching is rather like life : you start at the bottom and work up . ’ |
| 10 | It is rather like warfare , the seesaw of offensive and defensive , of tank armour and the high-velocity penetrating bullet . |
| 11 | Ironically we find that this mixture of heathenism and paganism is rather like living in the primitive church . |
| 12 | It is rather like feeling that the dark companion of Sirius is somehow less certainly known because we infer its presence from its gravitational effect upon the Dog Star than it would be if we could actually see it — as if gravity were somehow less real than light . |
| 13 | In string theory , this process corresponds to an H-shaped tube or pipe ( Fig. 10.6 ) ( string theory is rather like plumbing , in a way ) . |
| 14 | But for language learners to learn only the intricacies of the device without knowing how to put it to use is rather like learning about the delicate mechanisms of a clock without knowing how to tell the time . |
| 15 | A lot of speakers think this is what prevaricate means ; it is rather like procrastinate ( put off until tomorrow ) and the ‘ stall ’ meaning makes sense in most contexts where the word is actually used . |
| 16 | This suspension is so like sculpture is should be displayed in my living room . |
| 17 | The signature no doubt referred to the statues , but the bases show that painting as well as relief was practised in his workshop ; and the style of the low relief on the other bases ( fig. 94 ) with its red background throwing up the figures of athletes is so like Pioneer red-figure that one could easily imagine it produced by one of those artists . |
| 18 | The Arab world is much like war . |
| 19 | He was involved in the building of nearby Lyndon Hall , which is exactly like South Luffenham in every detail except that the latter has five bays on each side and Lyndon has seven . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , it 's just that life here is exactly like life anywhere else . |
| 21 | The water is normally like crystal and , if you are used to British waters , it is strange to see bubbles from other divers , rising like plumes some 40 or 50 metres away . |
| 22 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 23 | this is just like sort of Microsoft Works , you can play about with that erm |
| 24 | Skiing is just like windsurfing , except the water 's been freeze dried , spread around a mountain side and bashed into submission . |
| 25 | Then it 's hell , though the country is still like heaven itself . ’ |
| 26 | It is more like extermination than regulation . ’ |
| 27 | Love is not a primary emotion like compassion or pity , but is more like happiness which is derived and not achieved directly . |
| 28 | If the chemical diffuses a long way it is more like shouting and a larger number of cells could receive the signal . |
| 29 | Drawing in charcoal is more like painting where as I like to encourage precise , analytical draughtsmanship which is best executed in pencil . ’ |
| 30 | Sex is more like eating than breathing in this regard — and interestingly , the word " appetite " is often used in relation to both activities . |