Example sentences of "[verb] that [noun] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , suit yourself , but one good look and you 'd know that men like that generally do not spend their summers at places like this . ’ |
| 2 | Actually , I was surprised when looking through some book a couple of years ago to find that players like Gray played relatively few game per season , often being injured . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Souness deplores the heritage of scandal and misbehaviours and insists that players like Baxter and Best are anachronisms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The world believed that women like Ada Gaily were uncomplaining ; the world was wrong . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | My boyfriend says that ladies like me huv been just too liberated for our own good . |
| 9 | He says that things like candle sticks are stolen , then used as impliments to break windows . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Studies of air quality show that pollutants like car exhaust fumes can add to their suffering , especially during hot weather . |
| 13 | He had decided that people like the Coetzee family were going to rule South Africa , and people like the Coetzee 's have run it ever since . |
| 14 | It is never difficult to think of suitable gifts to take to elderly people who live alone , but apart from the obvious ones it is worth remembering that things like home-made cakes , biscuits , jam or marmalade which they may no longer bother to make for themselves are particularly appreciated . |
| 15 | But with action from car manufacturers to increase security on new models and some common sense measures from car owners , police hope that scenes like this will become less common . |
| 16 | However , I do feel that girls like Alison need long-term professional therapy , not just drugs and brief hospitalisation , to help them learn to ‘ feed ’ themselves — give themselves the things they need , such as food or privacy or rest and relaxation — without feeling guilty , and to recognise what these hungers and desires are . |
| 17 | The enthusiasm of staff and students in places like McMaster confirms that techniques like problem based and self directed learning can make medical education an enjoyable experience without loss of quality in the end product . |
| 18 | This analysis might be taken to suggest that examples like [ 12 ] and [ 30 ] should be analysed as self-corrections . |
| 19 | It is thought that problems like the Alaska oil spillage , and the discovery of a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica , influenced the Australian decision . |
| 20 | I do not believe that things like that normally happen in a lifetime . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Architect Max Hutchinson , a past president of RIBA , said : ‘ We are told that people like the houses that volume housebuilders supply , but I do n't believe it . |
| 23 | Trials have also shown that crops like maize ( Zea mays ) and cassava ( Manihot esculenta ) provide higher yields when alley-cropped with leguminous bushes and trees because of the increased availability of nitrogen which also results in a considerably reduced fertiliser requirement . |
| 24 | Erm what I what I 'd like to , I mean I 've written out in rough you know , what I 'd like to send out to departments with the the the homework timetable and it 's just , you know I I 'm trying to say to the members of staff I do n't wan na interfere with the way that they organise their departments or their classrooms but I want to propose , you know that things like all seventh year classes should have one homework per subject per week . |
| 25 | They try and tighten it up even more , almost in a subconscious way to control a disaster , and we know that things like chaos and disaster they ca n't be controlled , they ca n't be wrapped up in that way . |
| 26 | We know that magazines like this do n't change public opinion by themselves . |
| 27 | Yes I know that Christopher like your dad there , too much like him |
| 28 | However , as a result of my 23 years in teaching , I know that people like that remain in post and nothing is done about it . |
| 29 | Remember that Dwarfs like small caves and from my experience I question whether you can create these with bogwood . |
| 30 | Remember that Dwarfs like small caves and from my experience I question whether you can create these with bogwood . |