Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the issuing of IRA admissions of responsibility for atrocities like the Warrington and City of London bombs from the Southern capital was shaming Ireland throughout the world . |
| 2 | The problem is going to be the sheer weight of administration of schemes like this , and that 's going to make it very difficult for the small firm , because the solicitor sitting at his desk is his own manager , his own salesman and his own factory floor worker . |
| 3 | If young people are encouraged to adopt critical attitudes of mind about topics like these , will the spectre of Clause 44 of the 1986 Act again rear its head ? |
| 4 | Whereas there is a lot of aluminium in substances like antacid tablets and toothpaste , this remains insoluble because acidity is low . |
| 5 | One source of instability , you rightly note , has been lack of competitiveness in countries like Italy , whose unit labour costs rose by 10% compared with those of other industrial countries between 1987 and August 1992 . |
| 6 | Mankind has increased the acidity of rain through activities like burning fuel , which gives off oxides of carbon , sulphur and nitrogen , the most damaging being sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide . |
| 7 | ( No more afternoons in the mulberry groves of Castelfonte with boys like Donatellos . ) |
| 8 | They 're ha quite happy to do it once a month but like you said what they will not do erm obviously is to have a lot of sort of things like standing orders and that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Er the worst side obviously will be the drill bit side where Retool is not very significant in the North Sea Hycal on the other hand has a very strong market presence here er and Reler being submersible pumps and base based in enhanced recovery I would say the effect would be relatively neutral , though they do a lot of business with companies like B P who are said to be one of the beneficiaries . |
| 10 | In the fifties , doctors treated a number of people for the effects of smog in places like London and Birmingham . |
| 11 | I have been full of hate of men like you . |
| 12 | Second , the independence of processing of attributes like colour and motion suggests that they should be found to operate independently in psychophysical studies , and this is what happens ( Nakayama and Silverman 1986 ) . |
| 13 | The policy was met with predictable howls of rage from unions like NUPE , and nor did every Health Authority throw their hats in the air with glee . |
| 14 | They could soon soar as companies seek pan-European economies of scale in areas like logistics as a response to cut-price competition . |
| 15 | They should be kept out of sight in boxes like hairpins and buttons . |
| 16 | It made Hari so angry to see the little ones neglected but there was very little anyone could do , poverty was a fact of life in places like World 's End . |
| 17 | This independence of the speed of the system was first discovered by Galileo , who developed the laws of motion of objects like cannonballs or planets . |
| 18 | In return , you get a disdainful glance from large , lustrous , long-lashed eyes and a curl of contempt from lips like prehensile sausages . |
| 19 | An apparently holistic analysis of racist images and their ideological effect is followed in the second sentence by a switch into an argument about the way racism is reproduced through processes of transmission in micro-contexts like the family or peer group . |
| 20 | You simply did not do that sort of thing to men like Luke Denner ! |
| 21 | Typically , Lawrence makes use of the reinforcing effect of repetition in cases like " pink chrysanthemums like pink cloths " ( 18 ) . |
| 22 | It was the best round of golf for conditions like those I 'd ever seen , or have seen since . |