Example sentences of "that like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't be daunted by that , but recognise that like everything else in the acting business , it is highly competitive . |
| 2 | The problem with GPS is that like all new gadgets , the companies are wanting to recover development costs as quickly as possible and they are very expensive . |
| 3 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 5 | The striking thing was that like the golden ball Mungo had found at the barrow , these were not of modern design . |
| 6 | ‘ Cool green house ’ conditions out of doors could change our gardens dramatically , causing us to weed out the progeny of today 's tender treasures and cossetting plants that like cool , moist conditions . |
| 7 | He showed her that like him she had a long life-line . |
| 8 | B. Helleborus x orientalis Easy perennials that like a hearty , fertile soil . |
| 9 | Recep Demir , a 42-year-old Munich-based Turk , admitted at his trial last year that like many of his associates he had used Germany to hide the origins of his drug money by inventing a string of fake businesses . |
| 10 | It is probable that like the mammals the roots of the great variety of living birds are to be found in the Cretaceous , but fossils , which could document this , are only now slowly coming to light . |
| 11 | It is so large and bureaucratic that like all such hierarchies it defeats itself . |
| 12 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 13 | Maybe to lift guilt from bowed shoulders ; to put light and hope where there was deep-seated despair ; or to so simply and yet so vitally make them know that like any other human being , they are entitled to ‘ choice ’ — and actually have it . |
| 14 | I believe that like W. Dougall 's work and M. F. Guyer 's and S. A. Smith 's it will slowly be forgotten . |
| 15 | The oddest thing about X is that like naloxone , it blocks the opiate receptor ; this is opposite from morphine and the enkephalins . |
| 16 | Resisting the sirens ' song from the Tory wets , she said that like Ulysses , another resister , she would come safely home to harbour . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose , ’ Nicholas said , ‘ that like yourself , I believed the matter could wait . ’ |
| 18 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |
| 19 | The spokesman for the organizing committee was one Dr Harrison Rogers , who explained that like the more orthodox Olympic movement , the new games were to be truly international in flavour . |
| 20 | Many offer aeration and flow control facilities to increase the amount of essential oxygen in your water ( PFK May ) Tuck them away in corners and use the outflow to provide currents for those fish that like them — or defect the outflow onto the tank side and disperse it , for fish that like calmer surroundings . |
| 21 | From the results of these studies , he enunciated the principle that like cures like . |
| 22 | The therapy works on the principle that like cures like . |
| 23 | A visitor to Mohenjo Daro , one of the Indus Valley sites , will be left with the impression that this city with all it contained had either in record time surpassed all other human generations in inventiveness , or that like the Aryans they were immigrants bringing with them centuries of cultural inheritance . |
| 24 | I 'm sure that like any other dad the Prince loves his offspring . |
| 25 | The most depressing is the decline of Nottingham Forest , a side that like Spurs , Manchester United , West Ham and Chelsea in the past , look like discovering that being ‘ too good to go down ’ is one of soccer 's enduring myths . |
| 26 | This means that like pension fund trustees , charity fund managers are being selected on the basis of beauty parades , although this is not ‘ quite as standardised as in the pensions fund area . |
| 27 | It is the attraction of opposite charges that holds the negatively charged electrons in the atomic periphery where they encircle the positively charged nucleus , but the corollary is that like charges repel ; two protons , each one positively charged , repel one another . |
| 28 | As for Philips , Foxe records that like Judas ‘ He not long time after enjoyed the price of innocent blood , but was consumed at last by lice . ’ |
| 29 | Believing that all he had to do was crown himself and slay the princes , Malekith marched into the sacred flame , confident that like his father before him he could endure the ordeal . |
| 30 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |