Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list of casualties in New Zealand has become truly horrific , with one player following another onto the plane home , and plenty of others needing a bit of attention like the 12 stitches Stuart Barnes had put in his face after the game with Southland . |
| 2 | I think he might have discovered some kind of organisation like The Hell Fire Club . |
| 3 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |
| 4 | Thus the statement that That 's a dog entails That 's an animal can be viewed as a kind of shorthand for a pattern of normality like the following : |
| 5 | This prerogative was exercisable in times of quiet as well as of emergency and it was in no way fettered or reduced by the enactment of legislation like the Police Act . |
| 6 | Its coat , once described as very long , can still be quite long and is thick and silky ; the colours range through the spectrum of brownish red , red brindle , dark red and brindle , with a touch of fleckiness like the Shorthorn . |
| 7 | ‘ And no other country has a tradition of rugby like the New Zealanders ’ . |
| 8 | In a preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , published in this year , he described the landscape of his childhood and speculated about the boy who remained within the adult and successful figure of Mark Twain — the boy who was called " Huck " and whom Eliot saw as a symbol of freedom like the Mississippi itself ; it was impossible for that boy r that river " to have a beginning or end — a career " . |
| 9 | Once a surplus had been converted to gold it could be used , for instance , to reward , and to supply jewellers with the necessary raw material to produce lavish items of jewellery ; it has even been suggested that Scandinavian decorated gold pendants , bracteates , may have been a source of bullion like the later coins ( Hawkes and Pollard 1981 ) . |