Example sentences of "[prep] things like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again last week we talked about the feasibility of going to Australia for a week and the impact it would have on you after things like jetlag . |
| 2 | District Councils also look after things like environmental health , car parks and most planning applications , but it 's the county councils who are responsible for things like education , major roads and social services . |
| 3 | People do n't rebuild their lives quickly after things like this . |
| 4 | There are sensible discussions of things like bolts , falling off and full-body harnesses , interesting snippets such as wire-brushing the soles of your rock-boots occasionally or using superglue to protect your fingersss and , of course , lots of detail on gear : nine pages on pulleys , six on chalk bags , six on copperheads , four on gear slings etc , etc . |
| 5 | ‘ Instead of talking about basic acoustics and the physics of sound itself , and then how that maps to our experiences of things like pitch and so forth , you can talk about sources of sound and the physics of sources of sound and how we experience those . ’ |
| 6 | The armies are talking about closer planning of things like use of French ports . |
| 7 | But now , sausages were a hidden enemy full of things like E-additives and monosodium glutamate . |
| 8 | My world of smells consists of things like bully-beef , unwashed humanity , and the stink of cordite . |
| 9 | I am thinking of things like transfer ratios or perhaps 900 x 16 tyres will fit 7.50 x 16 wheel rims . |
| 10 | There 's a lot of things like that in this city . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were all kinds of things like that , were n't there Keith ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But I 've got to cover the costs of things like a van , the office , telephones and accountants ' fees . |
| 14 | Because of our own cultural heritage , we think in terms of things like the construction of permanent artefacts and the invention of useful tools like writing and mathematics — in other words we are , essentially , technologically oriented . |
| 15 | It is because of things like this that delivering the intervention ( and anything else ) to parents is a matter of problem-solving negotiation . |
| 16 | The Open Software Foundation Research Company , which does advanced development of things like the microkernel , is apparently left unscathed because it operates on a different funding model . |
| 17 | Bourne says that SunSoft invested in multi-threading instead of things like security because distributed applications need multi-threading in the base system and Sun sees distributed applications and systems as the way of the future . |
| 18 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 19 | Greenpeace sell them mugs and re-use labels and sort of things like that . |
| 20 | But I think young people now are much more free in terms of choosing what they want to read , or see , and in terms of things like the pill and contraceptives . |
| 21 | And by this we mean in terms of things like the cost of fuel , although it did go up again in nineteen seventy nine , but also with respect to new services being offered . |
| 22 | Er around this period we have the widespread use of things like colour television which has now started to appear in everybody 's homes and the beginnings of various holiday programmes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Erm prejudices come from all sorts of things , some of them are historical , some of them are generated out of things like football and arguments in the evening about good teams . |
| 25 | uses now the reason we need , not just nuclear power of course , but all other sources of energy er is erm illustrated by these next couple of slides erm I 'm sure you 've seen data like this before growth in the world 's population over the last er few hundred years erm over the middle ages the er world 's population was fairly stable , although the birth rate was high er the death rate was equally high because of things like cholera and bubonic plague and smallpox and other things that used to kill people off in large numbers . |
| 26 | It 's usually male singers and and all sorts of things like that . |
| 27 | So if you can think of things like this top remember it helps . |
| 28 | ( Alice was very good at her school lessons and could remember a lot of things like this . ) |
| 29 | Well there was all sorts , whatever was on the go , there was raspberry jam that my mo we used to later years my father grew raspberries and that sort of thing , blackcurrant jam , my mother made all sorts of things like that . |
| 30 | Oh we used to oh play all sorts of things like that . |