Example sentences of "like [adj] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Titford 's life was destined , like that of his father , to be a tragically short one ; the boy from the dockside parish whose early years must have been spent in an atmosphere redolent of the sea and ships , old tars and tales of high adventure , chose to make his living on the ocean waves . |
| 2 | Not only that but part of his very raison d'être , like that of his Creator , is to work . |
| 3 | His talent , like that of his label boss Boy George , is making quirky , quality , catchy pop tunes . |
| 4 | So Maurice could call himself a ‘ Christian socialist ’ , though his socialism , like that of his associate Charles Kingsley ( 1819 — 75 ) , was of a somewhat idealistic and utopian character . |
| 5 | For instance , when the Munich Residenztheater was opened in 1657 , the new Hofkapellmeister , Johann Kaspar Kerll ( 1627–3 ) was commissioned to compose an Italian Oronte for the occasion ; unfortunately his music , like that of his later operas , is lost . |
| 6 | The passage of his life , like some of his glorious tries , seems a case of serendipity . |
| 7 | Why did n't he just vomit in public like some of his colleagues ? |
| 8 | Although not a profound scholar like some of his immediate predecessors as clerk of the parliaments , Browne consolidated their work during his long term of office by bringing order and regularity to the procedure of the House of Lords . |
| 9 | Mozart 's 17 piano sonatas also show Haydn 's influence , but , like much of his music , works such as No 8 in A minor and No 14 in C minor betray a depth of emotion which only rarely invests Haydn 's music . |
| 10 | One of the difficulties with interpreting Small World visually had been that , like many of his texts , it features extended literary pastiche . |
| 11 | Like many of his pronouncements , I thought this was facile . |
| 12 | The year she died Sir Walter Raleigh was in South America , on his last ill-fated search for Eldorado : he had , like many of his contemporaries , quite literally put his life on the line to find this worldly paradise . |
| 13 | Recep Demir , a 42-year-old Munich-based Turk , admitted at his trial last year that like many of his associates he had used Germany to hide the origins of his drug money by inventing a string of fake businesses . |
| 14 | Like many of his fellow compatriots in the rogues ' gallery of Scottish football , Hughie Gallacher compulsively disliked authority . |
| 15 | Alas , like many of his watercolours this one has faded and discoloured , the blue pigment being the most faded . |
| 16 | Barbra Gilmor — Barbara Gilmour of Gilmore in its modem spelling — was the daughter of an Ayrshire farmer who , like many of his calling , was committed to the Solemn League and Covenant ( See chapter 21 ) . |
| 17 | MacAirth would be a charlatan like many of his kind , concealing his ignorance behind an arrogant poise , strange concoctions , astrology and horoscopes . |
| 18 | Like many of his counterparts in the industry , Mr Evans sees some parts of the market performing slightly better . |
| 19 | Like many of his anecdotes , the pay-off line is self-deprecating and almost profound and here , I think , lies the secret of Rollins ' popularity . |
| 20 | If all history attempts to conceptualize the event , to wean it from its finitude , then Foucault like many of his contemporaries is concerned to respect its singularity . |
| 21 | He , like many of his critics and followers , failed to see that the claims for a new scientific conceptualization rest not only on the ‘ facts ’ they are concerned to put into some kind of order , but also on the capacity of the new theoretical framework to bring out connections between what , until the new framework is used , appear as unconnected bits and pieces of information . |
| 22 | This , like many of his other speeches , was prose of a high evocative quality . |
| 23 | ( He was in every respect a most economical man , and , like many of his generation , continued to think of taxis as an expensive luxury long after he could easily afford them . ) |
| 24 | Like Lord Byron [ q.v. ] , who suffered a similar deprivation and whom he would grow to resemble in other ways , Douglas hero-worshipped the absent captain , at twelve beginning an autobiographical essay : ‘ As a child he was a militarist , and like many of his warlike elders , built up heroic opinions upon little information — some scrappy war stories of his father . ’ |
| 25 | Like many of his contemporaries he was bowled over by the charismatic personality of Eleutherios Venizelos , the Greek politician . |
| 26 | Like many of his kind , he was cadaverous and nasal-voiced . |
| 27 | Like many of his kind , he was violently anti-Semitic and this , exacerbated by the crushing political blow , led to his involvement with Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Fascist Movement . |
| 28 | Knowsley SSD research and development officer Joe Blott referred to community care as the ‘ great unknown ’ , and like many of his colleagues elsewhere he is reserving judgement until the financial implications of the policy have had a chance to play themselves out in practice . |
| 29 | Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it . |
| 30 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |