Example sentences of "that [pron] like " in BNC.
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| 31 | It beggars belief that something like this could happen . ’ |
| 32 | Consultations with other doctors in Britain suggested that something like this format may well have been fairly common in the past with the very poorest patients , while modern studies of casualty departments revealed that something approximating to it was still used with the most stigmatised of patients . |
| 33 | But the Turks for their part point out , when you visit them , that something like four-fifths of the undiminished Greek army is concentrated in Thrace , on Turkey 's border … |
| 34 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |
| 35 | By the time Chiang fell upon his Chinese communist rivals and destroyed the Canton commune in the spring of 1927 , and thus terminated the League 's existence also , it has been estimated that something like 200 ‘ graduates ’ of Ho 's Canton course had returned to Vietnam and although many of them were arrested , it was a significant infusion to be added to what might be called the natural sources of discontent . |
| 36 | It is just conceivable that something like this might have happened had there been a Communist government in France . |
| 37 | The Collector knew it was time he hurried downstairs … he had expected that something like this would happen , but not so quickly . |
| 38 | The evaluators must conclude that something like the input of resources which characterised the Essex project is a necessary condition for improving library provision and associated resources ( Objective 3 ) and to facilitate reforms in pedagogy , but that it is by no means a sufficient condition for significant change . |
| 39 | I talked recently to one in the Highland area who reckons that something like 80% of the people on his list are now over retirement age . |
| 40 | Be best cut out with a sharp knife that something like a Stanley knife |
| 41 | You would see that something like thirty percent of our work is at Leeds North West electrification . |
| 42 | I should have guessed that something like this was going on . |
| 43 | As the months have passed , it his become clear that something like a campaign of disinformation has been waged , for reasons which can still only be guessed at . |
| 44 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 45 | Well our research has shown that something like eighty percent of all small business 's do n't undertake any formal training within their first three years of operation and more than sixty percent do not do any formal business planning or look further ahead than one month from today . |
| 46 | But this record shows that something like 30,340 imperial shillings were expected in revenue : 3300 from the Patrimony , 5800 from religious institutions , and 21,200 , the lion 's share , from states and vassals . |
| 47 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes . |
| 48 | Well research suggests that something like eighty eight percent , that 's research by Klaus and Bass , Klaus and Bass nineteen eighty-eight , actually I may have got that date wrong so I 'm not sure you should quote the date , anyway it 's Klaus and Bass . |
| 49 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ Do you think that something like this might be the answer for Jennifer — and for your parents ? ’ |
| 51 | ‘ Perhaps she realised that something like that would make it easier for her to be found . ’ |
| 52 | It is always a possible that something like this will happen . |
| 53 | ‘ But I never had any inkling that something like this would happen . ’ |
| 54 | And we are moving into an age , I think it must be recognised , where some of the traditional jobs for girls , for example , secretaries , shops , things of this sort , are actually being decreased because of the technological revolution , so bearing in mind that something like seventy per cent of women are actually in employment , it 's very important that a girl , at the age of thirteen or fourteen , does not decide to cut herself off from the possibility of employment in these technological , engineering fields . |
| 55 | That 's not literary opinion , that 's a fact , and is n't in , incredible that something like that did n't shake some foundations , not a bit of it . |
| 56 | I understood that he like everyone else was suffering from the atmospheric blight cast by Angela Brickell , he perhaps most because the strain of his own trial and conviction was so recent . |
| 57 | He shouted and swore when Lennie carried a dead mouse in his pocket pet and he gave Lennie a very hard time when Lennie said that he like ketchup on his beans . |
| 58 | Satisfaction was also expressed by Michael Jordan at Cork Gully and Nigel Hamilton at Ernst & Young , the joint liquidators of the two funds , who have so far recovered £60 million of the £190 million but knew from the beginning that anything like the Government pay-out for BCI was impossible . |
| 59 | " I mean , I had no idea that anything like that would happen . |
| 60 | It was not until the Trunk Roads Act , 1936 that anything like a national roads strategy was suggested , with a rational division of roads into four : Trunk , Class I , Class II and unclassified — and even then Britain declined to embark on motorway building , in sharp contrast to Germany 's autobahns and Italy 's autostrada . |