Example sentences of "[prep] word like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 2 | Many New York speakers alternate , for instance , between two pronunciations of words like that : ‘ that ’ and ‘ dat ’ . |
| 3 | Yes , if it comforts you to play with words like that , you can call them all dogs . |
| 4 | Although not unaware of the benefits in increased production which the new agrochemicals had allowed , she drew attention , in a passionate book , to the long-term dangers : With words like these Rachel Carson placed farming practice at the centre of what was to be an often rancorous controversy about the compatibility of efficient , profitable and cheap food production with the ecological balance of the countryside . |
| 5 | In words like these Paul , John and the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews struggle to express the unheard-of claim , that they themselves would have deemed blasphemous but for the irrefragable evidence of the life , death and resurrection of Jesus , that God had indeed visited and redeemed his people . |
| 6 | For example , Trudgill ( 1986 : 18 ) draws attention to the reluctance of North of England speakers , for whom a long /a : / in dance is part of the Southern stereotype , to accommodate to this vowel , even though it is one that already exists in their system in words like half and dark . |