Example sentences of "like the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Zuckerman Unbound ( 1981 ) reaches its climax at one of Roth 's frequent funerals — in this case , that of Zuckerman 's father — after which Henry charges Nathan with killing their parent by writing ‘ that book ’ , the liberated Carnovsky , and with believing like the bastard he is that fiction does n't have consequences . |
| 32 | He is angry , suspicious , overbearing ; he can be very like the Zuckerman berated in the fiction as ‘ this unsatisfiable , suspect , quarrelsome novelist ’ . |
| 33 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 34 | He is like the poet Ausonius , alas — that Silver Age abstainer from the world and connoisseur of oysters . |
| 35 | Harold Pinter occupies a unique place in contemporary theatre as a distinctive stylist , and I suggest you read some of his early short plays like The Room and The Dumb Waiter before going on to his major plays like The Birthday Party and The Caretaker . |
| 36 | Harold Pinter occupies a unique place in contemporary theatre as a distinctive stylist , and I suggest you read some of his early short plays like The Room and The Dumb Waiter before going on to his major plays like The Birthday Party and The Caretaker . |
| 37 | Dancing 's overcrowded like the pavements . |
| 38 | An' like the worst thing is that y' know the people who are like supposed to represent the people on our estate , y' know the Daily Mirror an' The Sun , an ITV an' the Unions , what are they tellin' people to do ? |
| 39 | I think in a company like the RSC you are privileged and you go on learning all the time . |
| 40 | I do think there 's a greater need for other aspects to be included — like the Alexander technique , which helps with your body control . |
| 41 | They are so like the television it 's sometimes hard to see why they are being done on a stage . |
| 42 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 43 | Would you say that this way of casting and rehearsal is a luxury almost exclusive to the major nationally subsidised companies like the National Theatre or the RSC ? |
| 44 | Playing a big classic like The Rivals is enormously demanding . |
| 45 | And I think you find it goes beyond drama school , in say a company like the RSC , where we have the top person in voice but do not have the equal in physical advice and guidance . |
| 46 | Oh , much ; just like the profession itself in a way . |
| 47 | That it is like the mind itself . |
| 48 | Like the rest of the glass , he wrote , it defies the second law of thermo-dynamics . |
| 49 | Like the other day . |
| 50 | It had to come to the nightly struggle with the big glass , like the struggle with Proteus , who must be held no matter what form he takes , bull , bear , fox , fire , water . |
| 51 | No doubt they think they have the interests of the artist at heart , he wrote , but for that reason they must be avoided like the plague . |
| 52 | Like the mash tun , it has a slotted base and the liquid runs out of the vessel over a bed of spent hops . |
| 53 | Reality , in York as elsewhere , means precious little public protection for our pubs and heavy reliance on the better nature of the brewers credit — brewers such as Samuel Smith 's , for for their loving and appropriately ‘ benign neglect ’ of a low-barrelage , unpretentious gem like The Wellington Inn in Alma Terrace , York . |
| 54 | They are often associated with the rebuilding of former houses , like the Freemason 's Arms , Downshire Hill , in Hampstead . |
| 55 | A pub like the Nag 's Head in Bishops Stortford , by E B Musman in 1935 , is in the modernist style of the London Underground , with curved ends and flat roofs , yet its ethos is the same rather high-mindedness of the earlier neo-Georgian style , with a wooden post on the roadside to carry the signboard . |
| 56 | Examples like the County Arms at Blaby in Leicestershire ( Pick , Everard , Keay and Gimson ) is more in the Tudor style , while Oliver Hill 's Prospect Inn at Minster in Thanet of 1938 is perhaps one of the most completely modern pubs of the inter-war period in its organic planning and use of floor decoration . |
| 57 | Yet buildings like the Nag 's Head and the Prospect Inn are among the most delightful of their period , and their careful restoration might inspire similar and much needed projects elsewhere . |
| 58 | Training courses at the supplier 's own premises are typically charged on a daily delegate rate structured like the tariff for hotel conferences . |
| 59 | Avoid cheap versions of Valpolicella ( about £30 a case ) like the plague . |
| 60 | Loiseau goes to the Burgundy market to select produce like the wild asparagus he serves , buttered and flashed in a pan with lobster . |