Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways Traces of the Figure redresses this balance and demonstrates the strength of the contribution of women like Chadwick , de Monchaux , Garrard , Galloway and Wilding to British sculpture of the late 20th century . |
| 2 | Of the dedication and devotion of one of the best crews , of the coxing genius of Sam Benham , of the brilliance of coaches like Mike Spracklen and Pat Sweeney . |
| 3 | Godoy 's modification of these procedures in 1793 and again in 1797 and the renewal of the alliance with intellectuals like Jovellanos and Meléndez Valdés was a temporary affair . |
| 4 | ‘ The role of the theatre in times like today is to elucidate and give a positive lead . ’ |
| 5 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 6 | Throw away all the books that give a stable routine which starts at 7am with morning feed and fills up the rest of the day with activities like quartering and setting fair — most of which none of us have time for ! |
| 7 | To argue that much of the work of philosophers like Aristotle or theologians like Aquinas was based on a simple grammatical error is quite unfair . |
| 8 | Your flag is being taken to the top of the hill by bands like Def Leppard and you 're back at home going , ‘ Aaah … f**k 'em — they sold out . ’ |
| 9 | The Bismarckian social policy implied by tariffs , the success of the policy in places like Birmingham where it was properly advocated , and its attraction to social engineers like the early Fabians , all lend a certain plausibility to the idea . |
| 10 | Another BBC series , Teaching Observed , groups examples from classrooms in different parts of the world under themes like teaching reading and ESP teaching . |
| 11 | But Raskolnikov 's nightmare calls to mind one that did , namely The Possessed , while the specific link between ‘ as men possessed ’ ( besnovatimi ) and The Possessed ( Besi , literally The Devils ) is inescapably obvious — just as the word ‘ Socialism ’ which Dostoevsky has written against the beast in Revelation coming out of the earth with horns like a lamb and speech like a dragon shows the general way his thoughts are tending . |
| 12 | Most people feel that they have some understanding of the focus of disciplines like History or Physics , but are less familiar with Sociology . |
| 13 | They found that the ‘ ee ’ pronunciation was given 96 per cent of the time with items like gean , 92 per cent of the time with items like geak , and 79 per cent of the time with items like gead . |
| 14 | They found that the ‘ ee ’ pronunciation was given 96 per cent of the time with items like gean , 92 per cent of the time with items like geak , and 79 per cent of the time with items like gead . |
| 15 | They found that the ‘ ee ’ pronunciation was given 96 per cent of the time with items like gean , 92 per cent of the time with items like geak , and 79 per cent of the time with items like gead . |
| 16 | Indeed , an early CDP inter-project report was devoted to dismissing such cultural explanations of the situation of areas like North Shields in favour of structural accounts centring on industrial change and its consequences . |
| 17 | The figures represent the amount of fronting and raising to [ e ? ] of the vowel in words like pipe and line , the maximum score being 200 , which represents a large proportion of extremely non-standard realizations . |