Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're in a position where we 're going to borrow a bit from next year , that actually puts the pressure on as I see it 's about nine or ten thousand extra this year , the allowance is about a hundred and eighty thousand , the total , erm , we 're adding nine or ten thousand to that , we 're taking it off it for next year , so we 've already got ourselves something like an eighteen to twenty thousand reduction in members allowances next year so the pressure is on to resolve the problem , and er , perhaps Mr might feel that actually that extra pressure might make us resolve it . |
| 2 | To make the film would cost you something like a hundred and twenty thousand pounds . |
| 3 | The US Government is reliably said to have invested large sums from its military budget on research in which impulses from computers ( which might give you something like the binary number level of the program ) were detected at a distance and the task was to see whether the highest level of program ( expressing what the real purpose of the program was ) could be reliably inferred . |
| 4 | None of these five constituencies is itself anything like an authentic community , and the notion that the two County constituencies could be thought of as parts of the same community as the three City constituencies is laughable . |
| 5 | This took time , and it was not until 1931 that Kell was chosen as the director around whom something like a national security service could be built . |
| 6 | Once the Greeks grow familiar with the alternation of democratically elected governments , and once their economy is giving them something like a proper European standard of life , they will behave like proper Europeans . |
| 7 | They handled something something like a thousand pounds worth of cars that |
| 8 | His adaptation of Twomey 's words and manner had in it something like the meticulous grace of his dancing to his mother 's music . |
| 9 | Taking the ingredients of the cloak-and-dagger historical novel current in his time , he gave his imaginary country certain recognisable Central European characteristics but only one or two passing references to Vienna and Dresden gave it anything like a real location . |
| 10 | They wan na get themselves something like a one point eight hatchback , so it 's got a little , nice sized engine |