Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjectives like big and small are gradually restricted with the addition of pairs like tall and short for vertical extent , or long and short for horizontal extent ( Donaldson and Wales , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | For the very poorest the station was one of the few places where they could encounter the better-off , and attempt some income redistribution by the provision of services like newspaper-selling , boot-blacking , hawking , or simply begging . |
| 3 | She says she believes women can support each other equally strongly , with more positive aims in mind ; ‘ Women do unite together on projects and support each other — the fact that feminism survives , and the existence of projects like Spare Rib , show how well women work together . ’ |
| 4 | Women continue to struggle against the tide of agencies like LEDU and are beginning to force these agencies to take the issue of women 's employment more seriously . |
| 5 | Perhaps the attraction was due to the German blood which flowed in the veins of some of my ancestors ; it was no doubt helped by my veneration for the genius of men like Wagner and Goethe . |
| 6 | The organization gathers to the smell of credits like Vygeantic blood-worms to a corpse . |
| 7 | In the case of texts like [ 13 ] the justification appeals to those dimensions of style which derive from the speaker 's estimation of the hearer 's processing and contextual resources . |
| 8 | And , as Marjorie Perloff has remarked , ‘ in the case of writers like Derrida , Lacan and Barthes , for whom the materiality of the signifier is central , translation is nearly a contradiction in terms . ’ |
| 9 | In the case of planets like Venus , where surface features are obscured , this is an important way of determining the axial period and axial inclination . |
| 10 | In the case of examples like [ 15 ] , in which the reformulation is an interpretation of another speaker 's utterance , the answer is fairly straightforward . |
| 11 | Steven Meisel views the rise of models like Kate Moss as an indication of a more general mood in the fashion industry . |
| 12 | If you think of what you do on a holiday , it 's a totally different lifestyle to when you 're normally working and obviously people desire to have that sort of experience more and more , and you 've got the rise of things like short breaks . |
| 13 | Instead we have seen the rise of ideas like theme restaurants , where the emphasis has been on the theme and not on the quality of the food . |
| 14 | On the other hand , THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND urged that the experience of countries like Norway and Sweden did not justify the conclusion that the death penalty could safely be abolished in this country , where conditions were different . |
| 15 | Hepworth justified poaching from literature because of ‘ the advantage of a well-made plot , which was not at all easy to come by in original film scenarios ’ , but what this ignores is the responsibility of producers like him to foster the writing skills which would end British cinema 's reliance on the novel or play , and novelistic or theatrical styles of storytelling . |
| 16 | This period saw the building of areas like the Triangle , Ropery Banks , Gardiner Street and North Trinity , which were important for housing action by the CDP . |
| 17 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 18 | He is not at all nostalgic , but he mourns the loss of friends like the poet , Jacques Prevert . |
| 19 | In the light of experiments like the two we have just described , Flores d'Arcais and Schreuder ( 1983 ) propose a modification to the clausal hypothesis , which is that , after a clause has been presented , the continued presence of information about the syntactic structure of that clause in working memory will depend on whether such information is needed for further processing . |
| 20 | In the light of facts like these , if one were to judge the issue on purely practical grounds alone , sarvodaya would appear to be a more dignified and humane doctrine . |
| 21 | It is in the light of facts like these that Jesus ' words and actions are to be understood . |
| 22 | Co-ordinators were given an update on recently published crime figures and a general briefing with emphasis on the importance of locking outbuildings to prevent the theft of things like power tools , lawn mowers and fishing tackle . |
| 23 | Now , the talent of musicians like Extreme 's Nuno Bettencourt goes without saying . |
| 24 | ‘ It worries me that impresarios are using the Russian label to make money at the expense of companies like us , like the Scottish and Northern Ballet . |
| 25 | She was not exactly a refugee from the violence of invaders like many other Anglo-Saxon women , including one whose case we shall soon encounter : she was simply a woman of royal birth being educated in a monastery awaiting a suitable marriage . |
| 26 | World-system theories did not originate in the study of phenomena like the modern UK economy . |
| 27 | Perhaps even more revealing are the astonishing carvings which adorn many of the small Romanesque churches of the Saintonge , for whereas the facades of important churches , under the patronage of princes like the Duke of Aquitaine or the Count of Angoulême , may well be the work of internationally famous masters , these village churches make plain the strength of a purely local tradition of superb craftsmanship . |
| 28 | In October the price of sugar dropped to its lowest level in 20 months owing to a fall in demand from Iraq and Kuwait and the readiness of countries like India to sell sugar to raise desperately needed cash to cover rising oil prices . |
| 29 | Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 . |
| 30 | The plan of houses like Bearwood also has its relation to the structure of many Victorian novels , which are as rambling and intricate in their connections , as Jane Austen 's , like the houses of her time , are frankly open and proportioned . |