Example sentences of "that [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does n't mean that bikes like ZZR1100 will disappear , just that more emphasis will be placed on its sports touring capabilities . |
| 2 | ‘ You have always insisted that groups like this should not be encouraged to take hostages . |
| 3 | Now it says that groups like the British National Party hope to feed on the ultra-nationalist rhetoric of the French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and the rise of neo-Nazism amidst the mass unemployment and economic hardships of eastern Germany . |
| 4 | The implication is that products like SunSoft Inc 's Solaris , Santa Cruz Operation Inc 's Open Desktop and Univel Inc 's UnixWare — as well as Unix System Labs ' SVR4.2 — would undergo a testing and branding process to prove their Unix credentials . |
| 5 | As to wish-lists , Claridge agreed that projects like the much-maligned Mallaig to Fort William road would be a priority , but unexpectedly broadened the range of funding possibilities . |
| 6 | The RSPCA says that cases like these often bring just token fines from magistrates , when in fact they could impose fines of up to £2,000 and or 6 months imprisonment . |
| 7 | He rejected claims that clubs like Birmingham should not be allocated fixtures in resort times at attractive weekends like the present Blackpool illuminations season . |
| 8 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 9 | Then his sister told him gently that schools like his did n't have bells , a bell would lower the tone of the place and put off the parents of prospective pupils . |
| 10 | [ 5 ] It would seem highly probable that animals like humans would take into account the presence of other animals when displaying signs of tissue damage . |
| 11 | It arose from some very good scientific research into smells that animals like and there 's no animal with a better sense of smell than a dog . |
| 12 | Dunning and colleagues conclude that authors like Clarke are guilty of romanticising working-class history , ‘ attributing to it a degree of family , inter-age-group and neighbourhood solidarity it has probably never possessed ’ ( ibid.:237 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's nothing that vipers like more than basking on hot sunny rocks . ’ |
| 14 | Historians need to be convinced that prefixes like ‘ literary and linguistic ’ are an invitation and not a warning to keep out . |
| 15 | Robert Van Lierop of Vanuatu in the West Pacific and chairman of the group , told the delegates that nations like his ‘ do not have the luxury of waiting for conclusive proof ’ of global warming . |
| 16 | When I wake up , maybe I 'll find that , like the death of Bobby in Dallas , all the recent news has been some kind of bad dream and that labels like Sarah , Non Fiction , Play It Again Sam and Cooking Vinyl all have bands on Top Of The Pops . |
| 17 | But Richard Wilson says he regrets the fact that units like the Ritchie Russell have to find money from outside the NHS . |
| 18 | Tony Beard in Record Mirror described the group as ‘ Rumbling rather than jangling ’ and that songs like ‘ Crushed ’ had more in common with Sonic Youth than Orange Juice . |
| 19 | Many psychologists realize that Skinner 's optimism is excessive , and that variables like gender affect their practice in important ways . |
| 20 | Berkeley remarks that the opinion that words like ‘ good ’ and ‘ happiness ’ ‘ stand for general notions abstracted from all particular persons and actions ’ has ‘ rendered morality difficult , and the study thereof of less use to mankind ’ . |
| 21 | The Children 's Act which came into force In October 1991 means that words like custody and access have gone to be replaced by residence and contact . |
| 22 | But , as with Neratius , it is again surprising that words like cupio or opto , which are both entirely in the traditional mould of requesting the trustee to do something , should have to be mentioned at all . |
| 23 | Thus he may admit that words like ‘ right ’ and ‘ wrong ’ can be , and often are , understood in a non-utilitarian fashion , perhaps simply to express ill considered emotions in statements incapable of rational testing or of being true or false . |
| 24 | OLIVER said that words like everyone and someone and no-one are singular pronouns and must therefore be followed by the singular possessive pronoun , namely his . |
| 25 | He goes on to point out that words like ‘ comfort ’ and ‘ home ’ are peculiar to the English language , so that the benighted French are driven to borrow confortable , since de la maison and chez nous relate merely to eating and sleeping places . |
| 26 | She read the classic children 's novels wonderfully well , so well indeed that books like The Scarlet Pimpernel were often a disappointment when re-read by us in private afterwards . |
| 27 | The rest of the poem is concerned with the social causes of human misery : the Female Vagrant tells us that This is dismissed by many critics as ‘ tainted with Godwinism ’ , but I can not myself see that lines like these are ever likely to become out of date . |
| 28 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 29 | She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs , but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh . |
| 30 | Laing believes that countries like Japan and West Germany which take a more long-term attitude to performance are less subjected to such pressures . |