Example sentences of "[noun] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Performances like this prove we are not as flimsy as people think . ’ |
| 2 | With only four home games left away points are soon going to have to be picked up but with performances like this , it looks unlikely . |
| 3 | If United are to avoid relegation against all the odds , they 'll need more performances like this 5-2 win over fellow strugglers Newcastle , a result which prompted the Tynesiders to sack the manager and call for Kevin Keegan . |
| 4 | Gone on record as saying ‘ if performances like this is n't going to do you any good , you have n't lost one match this season through the merit of the opposing side ’ |
| 5 | From time to time one of the women would speak , launch a few words like small puffs of smoke towards the moulded plaster flowers on the ceiling , and then fall silent again . |
| 6 | At the phonological level , for example , we find Creole words like picky-picky , " frizzy " , are used within London English , their pronunciation " nativised " , while elsewhere we find the London pronunciations breaf and frough ( /bref/ and /fru : / for /bre / and / ru : / ) within stretches of speech in other ways clearly marked as Creole . |
| 7 | Cells have definite lines of descent and these lines are branching , so words like second cousin can be used of cells in a body without apology . ) |
| 8 | ON hearing the news , the Amnesty office resounded with words like Brilliant ! |
| 9 | The third sound type is silence or , to be more precise , the gaps that occur within words like six and eight . |
| 10 | His or her speech is characterized by a tendency to treat words like concrete things and to engage in what Freud calls ‘ organ-speech ’ ( 1915:204 ) . |
| 11 | Her patient , WB , was almost normal at reading words , his accuracy being 85–90 per cent ( even with complex words like satirical or preliminary ) . |
| 12 | It throws words like real and normal into question , continually challenges and subverts the things we take for granted , the things we think we know . |
| 13 | Unlike the previous passage , this one has several vocabulary items specific to ( originally ) black youth culture , for example bredder ( brother — in the community rather than biological sense ) , sound ( a large mobile disco — but see Gilroy 1987 : 164ff for a fuller description ) , spar ( friend ) , skirt and daughter ( both words for women ) , while other words like trod and check are not used in a Standard English way . |
| 14 | Astrology books have an awful lot to say about the Libran character and words like wishy-washy , lazy , indecisive and unambitious leap right out of the pages . |
| 15 | ‘ Now , now , good feminists do n't use words like that . ’ |
| 16 | Many New York speakers alternate , for instance , between two pronunciations of words like that : ‘ that ’ and ‘ dat ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ You are not supposed to learn long words like that until you are at least eight or nine . |
| 18 | ‘ All the people round 'ere use words like that , ’ Billy told her with a grin . |
| 19 | " You do n't use grown-up words like that without hearing them first , Miss Gristy , " she said . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't you be using words like that in front of them children , ’ she instructed him fiercely . |
| 21 | ‘ You ca n't use words like that , and certainly not in public . |
| 22 | Words like that mean trouble , big trouble , and I 've got enough of that in my department as it is without you importing any more . |
| 23 | Jesus wondered where she 'd learned words like that . |
| 24 | You say words like that and everyone knows what they mean but when you look at them you ca n't understand them . |
| 25 | Did people in ‘ sarf London ’ still use words like that ? |
| 26 | Yes , if it comforts you to play with words like that , you can call them all dogs . |
| 27 | they used to use words like that , you know , hundreds of years ago , but you do n't |
| 28 | Yeah so you see the point , if you 're making a presentation and you use words like that based on where you come from the geography you know your regional variations then it 's a bit it 's a bit difficult for er effective communication is n't it ? |
| 29 | That kind of scares a guy , when you use big words like that . ’ |
| 30 | Said long words like that kept using very long words . |