Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essentially for reasons like these that the governments of the new democracies of Eastern Europe look to privatization as a way forward . |
| 2 | It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions . |
| 3 | He would be oblivious to everything for weeks on end , then had short bursts of punishing anyone on sight for reasons like opening your eyes when waking up . |
| 4 | For reasons like these , it would seem a dangerous policy to ignore the processing of non-words entirely in one 's theorising about the organisation of the mental lexicon ; hence we must consider now what the mechanisms might be that people use when processing non-lexical verbal stimuli ( spoken or written non-words ) . |
| 5 | So again for reasons like that , we have to maintain the confidence of the client . |
| 6 | Thus , the demand patterns for products like coal , steel and heavy goods vehicles decline rapidly in a recession , ( and may be subject to a level of demand during boom conditions that they simply can not meet ) . |
| 7 | We can feed them information on Russian intentions in exchange for scraps like this tip about the Bonnard car . ’ |
| 8 | Surely Clinton 's presidency will be a double-edged sword for comics like Hicks ? |
| 9 | Many long exchanges are carried out entirely through metaphors like ‘ the snake always sheds his skin ’ . |
| 10 | And one astonished young woman asked what was degenerate or obscene about artists like Nolde , Chagall , Marc , Macke , Kirchner or Heckel . |
| 11 | ‘ The worst thing about programmes like Xuxa 's is that they force the idea down children 's throats that life is a bed of roses , ’ says Nilde Moreira Santos , a primary school teacher in the North-eastern city of Salvador . |
| 12 | It is through patterns like this that most adults learn something of attachment and separation . |
| 13 | Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it ! |
| 14 | But in the hotel and restaurant industry , the GRiDPad 's 12-hour rechargeable power pack and its genuine portability make it viable for operations like stocktaking . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Through programmes like the " Slough Health Habit " we have established health food bars in major factories and raised the awareness of their workforces . |
| 17 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 18 | Officials of the ODA will work with local health personnel and through groups like the Red Cross to identify hospitals and clinics which will made good use of the aid and ensure that it gets to those who truly need it . |
| 19 | They managed to avoid the panning reserved for contemporaries like Bogshed who were termed : ‘ Four twisted misanthropes trying to make a career out of sneering at people ’ by Dave Jennings in the NME . |
| 20 | Put another way , she had been plucked and prepared for meetings like this as carefully as a goose is dressed for the oven . |
| 21 | The same goes for cocktails like Manhattan and Mint Julep . |
| 22 | Then I heard the growls of support coming from our own side for proposals like Family Credit and the ending of SERPS . |
| 23 | For the last year he 's been setting out his story in his autobiography , a glimpse into decision making during operations like Desert Storm and an insight to his personal life . |
| 24 | For market indices based on a small number of shares , such as the MMI with only 20 shares , arbitrage using all the shares in the index is much easier than for indices like the NYSE Composite , which comprises about 1700 shares . |
| 25 | ‘ I went to Ron Grainer , who had written themes for programmes like Maigret and Steptoe and Son , and asked him how he would feel trying to achieve a melody electronically . |
| 26 | Most 2-year-olds have a short concentration span and will flit between activities like Playdoh , Lego , or playing with cars and dolls while a 5-year-old can settle to play table games and puzzles . |
| 27 | They could be asked about the improvements that metal tools could bring , Through discussions like these , pupils should be brought to realise that what people could do in the past was often limited by their technology . |
| 28 | We still made a certain amount of buckets and bins and things like that which was their stock in trade , but mostly it was erm was erm bomb fins and mortar bombs aerial bombs erm er and er things like er fins for bombs like that . |
| 29 | For experts like Belfast-based Campbell Freight Agencies Limited — who also operate from Dublin and Cork — such massive moves are a matter of course . |
| 30 | So for experts like you , is it something you could have expected last night ? |