Example sentences of "[noun] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few places in the world were you will not be understood if your conversation depends on words like hotel , dollar , passport , music , menu , steak , cinema or football . |
| 2 | Words like coward , stupid or effeminate should probably never be used unless the client has used that very word himself . |
| 3 | The set of changes by which during the last 700 years or so , for example : /ei : / became /i : / in words like see /i : / became/ai : / in words like time / / became / / in words like bone |
| 4 | In this respect , they may be linked with other " local " words like coppice and spinney . |
| 5 | It is very useful , if you 're trying to write down something like accent , say northern accent , would be , but would sound in words like cook , there 's no way of really doing that unless you use phonetic transcription . |
| 6 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 7 | but the , they 're just derivatives of words like twout |
| 8 | Recognise that where words have been borrowed in the last 400 years , there are some characteristic sound-symbol relationships that reflect the word 's origin , eg ch- in French words like champagne , chauffeur , charade , and ch- in Greek words like chaos , chiropody , chorus , compared with ch- in long-established English words like chaff , cheese , chin . |
| 9 | Recognise that where words have been borrowed in the last 400 years , there are some characteristic sound-symbol relationships that reflect the word 's origin , eg ch- in French words like champagne , chauffeur , charade , and ch- in Greek words like chaos , chiropody , chorus , compared with ch- in long-established English words like chaff , cheese , chin . |
| 10 | Recognise that where words have been borrowed in the last 400 years , there are some characteristic sound-symbol relationships that reflect the word 's origin , eg ch- in French words like champagne , chauffeur , charade , and ch- in Greek words like chaos , chiropody , chorus , compared with ch- in long-established English words like chaff , cheese , chin . |
| 11 | He may be sitting in a hospital bed somewhere in Italy at this very moment , wondering who he is and why he knows all these long words like hermeneutics . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I heard you use words like find and explain . ’ |
| 13 | I mean Shakespeare did not , correct me if I 'm wrong , use words like fart and , certainly does n't use words like fuel gauge , have a leg over things like that , and things like , okay ? |
| 14 | People who were familiar with computers ( terminals to the Polytechnic network for example ) or with LlBERTAS generally found LlBERTAS easier to use ; they often found Okapi 's coloured keys more difficult than LIBERTAS 's mnemonic commands ( LIBERTAS is not what most people would understand by a command-driven system , but most of the choices and options are single letters or words like BACK , and these have to be followed by pressing the RETURN key ) . |
| 15 | But , as with Neratius , it is again surprising that words like cupio or opto , which are both entirely in the traditional mould of requesting the trustee to do something , should have to be mentioned at all . |
| 16 | Excuse me just because the tape 's on there 's no need for you to use big words like prognosis . |
| 17 | This one uses the word niveau , which he does not know , as though it is an English word , one of those border-hopping words like ambience . |
| 18 | This approach is most obviously to the fore in Buddhism which emphasizes the necessity for getting beyond concepts by the use of words like anatta , anicca , and nirvana . |
| 19 | There is also a large group of words which can refer to either sex — words like driver and friend ; they are said to have ‘ common gender ’ , and the question of concord is decided in each specific instance ( that is , driver will sometimes be she , other times he ; there is also the problem of the unspecified , generic driver , the appropriate pronoun for whom is a major linguistic headache for today 's speakers ) . |
| 20 | When people talk about quarks they use words like colour and charm and strangeness and other things . |
| 21 | To describe a castle they need to learn to use words like moat , turrets , battlements , keep , arrow slits , gatehouse , drawbridge , portcullis , etc . |
| 22 | Natasha has learned essential words like pen , pencil and book . |
| 23 | This does not mean that the old books can provide us with no concrete evidence from the past , but it does mean that old books must be read with delicacy ; with a sense that if we go blundering into them , assuming that they mean what we mean by words like sky , earth , history or nature we shall get everything wrong . |
| 24 | Daly and Caputi are especially preoccupied with reclaiming the spiritual powers women were once invested with — powers hinted at in the etymology of words like glamour , as noted above . |
| 25 | But spelling can not solely rely on this route : to be able to spell words like yacht or choir we must have access to specific lexical information about how each word is spelled . |
| 26 | There are also problems with words like unicorn , roc , elf and dragon . |
| 27 | There 's words like chief , wad , dude they all mean you 're an idiot , a joker or a means , like , you make a fool of yourself a lot . |
| 28 | The figures represent the amount of fronting and raising to [ e ? ] of the vowel in words like pipe and line , the maximum score being 200 , which represents a large proportion of extremely non-standard realizations . |
| 29 | Rare words like whimsey and winter-crack do occur , but they are of the kind one may suppose to have local dialect currency . |
| 30 | We have seen other examples in the local flavour of words like whimsey , and phrases like " being turned up " . |