Example sentences of "with words like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People may think there 's something sardonic about Leeds United fans walking round with words like ‘ peace ’ and ‘ love ’ on their backs , ’ says T-shirt designer Moose , ‘ It might not solve football 's hooligan problem , but at least they look a lot better than wax-coats and ski-hats . |
| 2 | The word ‘ socialism ’ is expunged from the party manifesto , which instead is decked out with words like ‘ supply side ’ and ‘ investment ’ , but those words are worn like slogans on the T-shirts of Third World peasants , with incomprehension and a vague sense that they confer status . |
| 3 | Human thinking and language would dissolve into a topsy-turvy jumble of uncertainty if we were to use the word know as if it were interchangeable with words like guess or dream , or if we were to say right when we really meant wrong . |
| 4 | More recently came teddy-boys , mods and rockers , with words like ‘ terrific ’ , ‘ smashing ’ , ‘ fantastic ’ , ‘ bang-on ’ and ‘ I 'm alright , Jack ’ . |
| 5 | It is most important for those who develop services for old people to consider the complexities and variations of the social structures which we describe with words like ‘ community ’ , ‘ neighbourhood ’ and ‘ networks ’ — all overworked and imprecise terms as presently used by many professionals . |
| 6 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of . |
| 7 | ON hearing the news , the Amnesty office resounded with words like Brilliant ! |
| 8 | There are also problems with words like unicorn , roc , elf and dragon . |
| 9 | Although not unaware of the benefits in increased production which the new agrochemicals had allowed , she drew attention , in a passionate book , to the long-term dangers : With words like these Rachel Carson placed farming practice at the centre of what was to be an often rancorous controversy about the compatibility of efficient , profitable and cheap food production with the ecological balance of the countryside . |
| 10 | The languages of native peoples by contrast tend to take a much more holistic view of the universe — a view with which our own relatively recent conversion to a greener outlook struggles to recreate with words like ‘ environment ’ . |
| 11 | Yes , if it comforts you to play with words like that , you can call them all dogs . |