Example sentences of "[indef pn] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be looking for someone like the Beresfords ' youngest daughter — innocence , childlike freshness and beauty . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is unreasonable for us to accept that it is commonplace for people like our Cabinet Ministers to have affairs , and yet to consider that someone like the Prince of Wales is unfit for the job . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What intrigues me most of all is how you managed to get someone like the editor of the New York Times to agree to back up your cover story . ’ |
| 4 | That I was the absentee hostess and nobody like the chocolate cake we serve at the garden parties . |
| 5 | I said if nobody like the way I talk they can lump it and you said , Aye they can . |
| 6 | Maybe our weakness is our strength , thought Cameron — we are seen to be democrats , nothing like the Prince 's bands of warriors . |
| 7 | Nothing like the man who had spoken about her cat brooch . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for the Lions , as the French persist in calling them , they will have had nothing like the preparation time of their opponents . |
| 9 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 10 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's nothing like the lake and the open air for powdering through the lessons . ’ |
| 12 | They are nothing like the divers we have tried to photograph and largely failed to capture because of their timidity . |
| 13 | Even its light is tired , a pale yellowy-orange , nothing like the vibrant light of the south where the tireless sun goes high and stays high . |
| 14 | Wearing 175/60 Continental tyres , it has nothing like the grip of a 205 GTi , nor does it have the Peugeot 's steering feel . |
| 15 | There 's nothing like the soft texture and colour of old fabrics : learn to use and take care of them . ’ |
| 16 | The conference had nothing like the coverage of either the British Medical Association or Royal Institute of British Architects festivities , so its impact on the public at the time was negligible ; but it marked a significant turn in the Prince 's own farming methods , brought environmental concerns slowly into consumer consciousness and in the long term dealt a devastating blow to the agrochemical industry . |
| 17 | According to the unions , however , it contains a few minor strings , but nothing like the substantial changes in working practices being asked for nationally by the employers . |
| 18 | COOK 'S NOTE : Commercially prepared Melba toasts are available , but they are nothing like the real thing . |
| 19 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 20 | Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth 's six-page statement , the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism . |
| 21 | The batting , though , is nothing like the force of old , with a lack of runs undermining the West Indies ' World Cup challenge . |
| 22 | Traditionalists may huff and puff and say there is nothing like the real thing ; aesthetes may deplore the destruction of mystery ; but for most of us it proves as enthralling as exploring a maze . |
| 23 | The action begins in the Vatican papal apartments , where all the cardinals use mobile phones , the head of security is a Mafia hood from the Bronx , and Pope John Paul II ( Berwick Kaler , who looks nothing like the real pontiff ) is suffering from acute paranoia . |
| 24 | This detailed academic research , combined with Pevsner 's Germanic organisation , resulted in one of the largest volumes to date : but nothing like the extensively revised , jumbo-sized second edition with its 879 pages . |
| 25 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 26 | Nothing like the presence of a monarch to keep the police on their toes ! |
| 27 | Australia , Canada , the Republic of Ireland , and the United States have nothing like the same concentration of unqualified power at the centre of government as this country has . |
| 28 | With his cropped bony head hunched into the shoulders of his badge-covered leather jacket , a grubby towel under his arm , he looked an unlikely trainer , nothing like the smooth Mr Plumpton . |
| 29 | In a mature oil province like the North Sea , most of the large fields have certainly been discovered and the fields of the future will be nothing like the size of the giant fields of Brent , Ninian and Forties . |
| 30 | There was an increase in the urban programme but on nothing like the scale he wanted . |