Example sentences of "[indef pn] like the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What intrigues me most of all is how you managed to get someone like the editor of the New York Times to agree to back up your cover story . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is unreasonable for us to accept that it is commonplace for people like our Cabinet Ministers to have affairs , and yet to consider that someone like the Prince of Wales is unfit for the job . ’ |
| 3 | I said if nobody like the way I talk they can lump it and you said , Aye they can . |
| 4 | That I was the absentee hostess and nobody like the chocolate cake we serve at the garden parties . |
| 5 | There is nothing like the sight of death and blood to make old Shallot want a cup of sack or a goblet of wine ! |
| 6 | ‘ There 's desert to cross , but it 's nothing like the G'bai . ’ |
| 7 | There was an increase in the urban programme but on nothing like the scale he wanted . |
| 8 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |
| 9 | Well , all right , technically he was concealing information about a deserter — although nothing like the scale on which Maj or Maxim was doing it — but civilians do n't take desertion seriously . |
| 10 | In Germany , for example , there 's nothing like the division between Parliament and Government that I was speaking of erm as far as France was concerned , erm nor is there to quite the same extent erm the sort of links between administrative politicians and political administrators , but one of the things they share in common is a tendency to have a legal background and a legal approach to administration , and almost all senior civil servants in Germany , for example , have gone through a legal training . |
| 11 | There 's nothing like an Epsom , there 's nothing like the variety that our jockeys have to cope with |
| 12 | There is nothing like the thrill a week or two later of being able to get back into clothing that you thought had been discarded forever . |
| 13 | Mark Benson won the toss for Kent and , as is customary these days , put Hampshire in But 11 o'clock on a July morning is very different from 10.30am in September and , while it was cloudy , there was nothing like the assistance the bowlers will expect to find at the start of the NatWest Trophy final later in the year . |
| 14 | As Tone Vine-Lott , managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers and new chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange ( and , as an IT man , nothing like the stockbroker stereotype ) , points out in Money Talks , the stockbroking game will still have changed out of all recognition in ten years ' time . |
| 15 | The conference had nothing like the coverage of either the British Medical Association or Royal Institute of British Architects festivities , so its impact on the public at the time was negligible ; but it marked a significant turn in the Prince 's own farming methods , brought environmental concerns slowly into consumer consciousness and in the long term dealt a devastating blow to the agrochemical industry . |
| 16 | Maybe our weakness is our strength , thought Cameron — we are seen to be democrats , nothing like the Prince 's bands of warriors . |
| 17 | Nothing like the prince , her own husband , who was so bel uomo . |
| 18 | In a mature oil province like the North Sea , most of the large fields have certainly been discovered and the fields of the future will be nothing like the size of the giant fields of Brent , Ninian and Forties . |
| 19 | Nothing like the man who had spoken about her cat brooch . |
| 20 | And it produced nothing like the furore that the almost contemporary list of ‘ Great British Novelists ’ did . |
| 21 | Forced realignments of the ERM have lately become almost tiresomely familiar : they cause nothing like the excitement of last September 's startling breakdown , when Spain devalued for the first time since joining , and Britain and Italy decided , until further notice , to leave the system altogether . |
| 22 | Part of the old circuit was retained , but the revamped circuit offered nothing like the excitement and challenge of its predecessor . |
| 23 | Wearing 175/60 Continental tyres , it has nothing like the grip of a 205 GTi , nor does it have the Peugeot 's steering feel . |
| 24 | Unfortunately for the Lions , as the French persist in calling them , they will have had nothing like the preparation time of their opponents . |
| 25 | Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth 's six-page statement , the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism . |
| 26 | Even so , in the first eight of the Republic 's general elections they enjoyed nothing like the success of women candidates in Scandinavia . |
| 27 | He got nothing like the price of it . |
| 28 | The Cross-Rail and channel tunnel high speed link are at nothing like the state of preparedness of Jubilee Line , that 's going ahead now after a lot of work , er th it it will not be the case er it that you can do either of those very quickly , Cross-Rail 's only just started going through the House of Commons . |
| 29 | That is nothing like the invasion of a new social class into British letters in general or into fiction in particular . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's nothing like the lake and the open air for powdering through the lessons . ’ |