Example sentences of "be [adv] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closer to home we have to decide whether , for example , to recognise that an increase in food prices imposed as a result of welfare standards demanded by the middle classes would be rather like the poll tax . |
| 2 | I should be dead like the rest of them ’ |
| 3 | The first of July will no doubt be much like the thirtieth of June — such is the tragedy of Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | There not only does the fish fauna closely resemble that of the Middle Old Red Sandstone in Scotland , but the sediments themselves are said to be exactly like the Thurso Flagstone Group of Caithness . |
| 5 | It 'd be just like the country if there was n't all the noise from the traffic . |
| 6 | But with the VR system , images are so realistic explicit sex and graphic violence will be just like the real thing , scientists say . |
| 7 | She would be just like the fairy dancers they had seen on the stage , and her feet would n't look big and flat in those shoes because they had lovely pointy toes , and little pom-poms on them . |
| 8 | That would be just like the old days . |
| 9 | It 'll be just like the Concorde drivers . |
| 10 | Go out into town and be just like the other men , I 'm tired of monkeying around . |
| 11 | The authors also propose that A-levels and other exams for 16 to 18-year-olds should be reformed to be more like the GCSE . |
| 12 | I ask myself if I want to be more like the slim women whom I admire than like my own thin body . |
| 13 | The dilemma which arose from the modern sculptor , was summed up by Marion Spielmann in British Sculptors and Sculptors of Today ( 1901 ) ‘ The present aim is to give life without actual realism — a suggestion of reality shrouded in poetry and grace … our artists understand that if the figures are to be more like the human form the statues must be unconscious of their absence of drapery as though they were symbols — which indeed they are ’ . |
| 14 | One school of thought argued that mobile , offensive operations were no longer possible and future wars would be more like the first world war than the second . |
| 15 | When -Ri is large , the latter is dominant and the turbulence may be more like the free convection turbulence to be described in Section 22.7 . |
| 16 | The pilot study is a trial run on a small number of ‘ guinea pigs ’ who should be as like the true respondents as possible in age , intelligence , social class , etc . |
| 17 | He is angry , suspicious , overbearing ; he can be very like the Zuckerman berated in the fiction as ‘ this unsatisfiable , suspect , quarrelsome novelist ’ . |
| 18 | Such schools might , gradually , become selective , and indeed might be very like the old direct grant schools , abolished by the Labour Government in 1966 . |