Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could a single letter or number possibly tell as much , for example , as is contained in descriptive reports or profiles like those above . |
| 2 | It was at those times , or times like the present as they went about the health-care tasks that were now so routine , that she most often brought up the question of this campaign over Tom . |
| 3 | Events are managed by a professional management team , unlike the World Match Racing Conference , which is run largely by a group of clubs overseen and interfered with by the IYRU or groups like the 50ft Association where a committee of owners organises racing to suit its needs . |
| 4 | If arranged along a low wire or rail like a single espalier , they can be trained as long dwarf hedges around borders and vegetable beds . |
| 5 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 6 | Just as the Catholic saints , who may well be associated with particular areas or objects like Hindu gods , all manifest the same divine power , they can be reconciled with monotheism . |
| 7 | T. D. The discipline was tyranny but it was n't bad for us — two policemen walking along the road together , talking about women or football like everybody else , and they ca n't keep their eyes for crime or for offences being committed under their noses . |
| 8 | It might well prove to be all they could do to find their way across the heather to some quiet field or copse-bank like those they had been used to . |
| 9 | The terms of reference frequently require the court to have regard to the public interest or the national interest or the national economy or considerations like ‘ the need for an efficient and competitive ’ industry . |
| 10 | MRS is most likely to be caused by an airborne virus , rather than a bacterium or agent like that which causes BSE . |
| 11 | People who were familiar with computers ( terminals to the Polytechnic network for example ) or with LlBERTAS generally found LlBERTAS easier to use ; they often found Okapi 's coloured keys more difficult than LIBERTAS 's mnemonic commands ( LIBERTAS is not what most people would understand by a command-driven system , but most of the choices and options are single letters or words like BACK , and these have to be followed by pressing the RETURN key ) . |
| 12 | What was new was the diversity which people were finding by the end of the century : many of the greatest preachers remained ‘ orthodox ’ including Spurgeon and his many protégés or Wesleyans like Dinsdale T. Young and F. Luke Wiseman . |
| 13 | One can think of companies like Hanson Trust which , though still present in transport , its original roots , is now a mighty conglomerate in two continents , or companies like W. R. Grace , far away from shipping now , or Allied in the States where chemical activities are now only a small part of the whole . |
| 14 | ERA thus offers the possibility of real-time quality control not only for industrial pollutants but also for pathogens such as E.coli or parasites like cryptosporidium in drinking water . |
| 15 | It should be taken first thing in the morning , before it has had time to be increased by exertion , mental excitement , eating , or stimulants like tea , coffee or nicotine . |
| 16 | Both schools of thought defined here , then , would claim to have as their central focus the child 's welfare , although it appears that the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school more often uses this phrase or phrases like it , while the other group tends to talk about the family . |
| 17 | One plays upon a pipe or reed like Pan , another drinks from a crystal bowl while behind them another leaps with an arched back and arms outstretched into a cloud or white birds . |
| 18 | ‘ We are also concerned about arrangements made by individuals or organisations like outdoor centres negotiating their own arrangements for their own benefit . |
| 19 | She was n't a pioneer with rhythm or phrasing like Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby were , but she embodied and invaded lyrics and exuded a peculiar pain which tormented rock stars have tried to emulate ever since . |
| 20 | It developed in the northern er northern hemisphere , so Scotland , Ireland , the Yorkshire coast , anywhere where there was er outside er employment like the fishermen or places like er Yorkshire , all those areas have got their own knitted . |
| 21 | But we never even walked arm-in-arm , as was the accepted way for conventional Spanish male friends or accomplices like the black-glassed Falangists . |
| 22 | Into this I placed little ‘ oily ’ pools where cancer cells were setting up their colonies and I imagined the cells themselves as amoeba or tadpole like creatures , smooth , slippery and with large eyes . |
| 23 | To argue that much of the work of philosophers like Aristotle or theologians like Aquinas was based on a simple grammatical error is quite unfair . |
| 24 | Not only that , but where bipeds like coelurosaurs and carnosaurs increasingly had only vestigial front legs , the sauropods like Brachiosaurus ) instead began to grow their front legs longer than their hind ones . |
| 25 | You may also want to tile awkward shapes such as the window recesses , or things like bath surrounds . |
| 26 | Er , it might not be applicable to talents or erm hand spans or things like that but I certainly would want to include it , it might be very important in , in my subject . |
| 27 | numeracy because Andrew would n't have been testing algebra or things like that , you 'd have just |
| 28 | But you 're going to be finding out they 're all rushing off ahead and you have n't worked out how many twelfths there are in two thirds or things like that . |
| 29 | So front of your sheet you will have things like sine is A over B or things like that just write on the front of your sheet and convert it so that you 've got sine is equal to what do you know what sine is ? |
| 30 | And food a week we 'll have fishfingers or beefburgers or things like that , pastas . |