Example sentences of "[noun pl] like [noun prp] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | roles like Mrs is interested in fashion he 's not and then to say to wear her housecoats and then erm her different to what |
| 2 | Dunning and colleagues conclude that authors like Clarke are guilty of romanticising working-class history , ‘ attributing to it a degree of family , inter-age-group and neighbourhood solidarity it has probably never possessed ’ ( ibid.:237 ) . |
| 3 | But there is another reason why communities like Belfast are difficult to deal with , and this is that the phonology of such communities is not usually adequately described and codified beforehand , whereas more information of this kind is available for varieties closer to ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 4 | Thugs like Watson are responsible for that reign of terror . |
| 5 | Writers like Defoe were apt to stress the value of manufacturing in bringing extra employment , for women and children as well as for men . |
| 6 | For this reason , campaigners like Rifkin are necessary , and younger scientists especially have a reluctant admiration for him . |
| 7 | Would impatient abolitionists like Regan be prepared to wait that long ? |
| 8 | In those days villages like Cramer were silent and empty in the evenings . |
| 9 | Distinctive as the plans are , however , some of the less developed examples like Dragonby are difficult to differentiate from accepted ‘ villages ’ like Chisenbury Warren and Hacconby Fen , thus reinforcing some of the problems of definition outlined in the introduction ( fig. 7 ) . |
| 10 | I wanted to show her why hospitals like Barts are crucial as providers not only of specialist care of the rare and the bizarre , but also superlative care of the plain and usual , with a quality of nursing that surpasses the ‘ barely adequate ’ striven for by the NHS executive . |
| 11 | One quality which that work has in abundance is the Beowulfian ‘ impression of depth ’ , created just as in the old epic by songs and digressions like Aragorn 's lay of Tinúviel , Sam Gamgee 's allusions to the Silmaril and the Iron Crown , Elrond 's account of Celebrimbor , and dozens more . |
| 12 | Even large towns like Saragossa were provincial agricultural capitals with a developed artisanate supplying the surrounding countryside . |
| 13 | Some analysts like Murakami are unsure of the effects as the new , wealthier mass middle class begins to use its political power . |
| 14 | Fascists like Mussolini were outspoken in their contempt for democracy : |
| 15 | Something , however , must lie behind the feeling in the literary sources that politicians like Kleon were different , and perhaps the difference should be sought in the new and larger audiences assembled on the Pnyx as a result of the evacuation of Attica in 431 . |