Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [indef pn] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can make one like the British O' level that passes only 20% of 16 year-olds . |
| 2 | On the other hand , you can have something like the gang of four in China that creates such tensions and anxieties in the society and so many people get to feel that things have gone from bad to worse , that you get a shake up and change in the regime . |
| 3 | We might propose something like the following for English : then and now for past and present ; be and have for continuous and perfective : |
| 4 | Although the depopulation of the Western Isles has resulted at least partly from such malign human interventions as the clearances , it is doubtful if they could support anything like the past numbers at levels of living acceptable by present-day standards . |
| 5 | If we could see the lines of current flow for the rectangular inversion layer we have considered , on a microscopic scale they would look something like the sketch in Figure 4 . |