Example sentences of "like the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've given money to organisations like the RSPB , Greenpeace , the Woodland Trust and Working Weekends on Organic Farms . ’ |
| 2 | It was like the change of seasons . |
| 3 | It means , too , that these communities have been disproportionately affected by social security changes relating to families , like the change in the benefit position of 16- and 17-year-olds ( Oppenheim , 1990 ) . |
| 4 | I mean , it 's like the change of a crew one way or the other , it was fat or heavy it 's , you know , it 's the eight guys that are there and those are the eight best men that Oxford have and I think we have the best crew with those eight people . |
| 5 | Buy the F1 varieties like the Century , Gala , and Pulsar series , which all come in a range of colours . |
| 6 | Like the church roof in Poictiers |
| 7 | We may prefer arrangements based on institutions like the church and the shop but gangs and parties are also forms of social institution , not perhaps quite so easy to break down and displace as ‘ disorganization , would imply . |
| 8 | Dare I say it , it is like the Church . |
| 9 | His trousers were rough against her skin and smelt fusty like the church where he spent so many hours praying , presumably , for guidance . |
| 10 | ‘ Thus bodies like the Church exercise power over the individual on the basis of the knowledge they possess of that person . |
| 11 | ‘ I do think improvisation has become like some born-again cult , like the church of Scientology , with all these golden rules of how we should do it , ’ says Merton . |
| 12 | How great ideas like the Church got bogged down in bureaucracy . |
| 13 | Like the Church of S. Luke , the floor is of beautiful coloured marble and the walls and vaults are decorated by marble and mosaic . |
| 14 | The road before looked much like the road behind . |
| 15 | with a basket and there 's television , a stereo over there , and loads of videos on the shelves here and there like the road goes past , they was right close to the road just here was this big blanket and other side of the blanket there 's a Porsche and there 's a dog in th , in there |
| 16 | The possibilities opened up are exceptionally exciting and realisable provided certain strange notions of academic freedom ( in this case often amounting to a student fishing desperately around for an ‘ original ’ and totally useless subject like the history of his old school ) , can be avoided . |
| 17 | Like the history of American cycle riding |
| 18 | Typically , field scientists spend two or three years studying why the range in eastern Montana is not like the range in western Montana , and explaining to Washington why it should be managed differently — only to be told by bureaucrats that all rangeland planning must be the same everywhere . |
| 19 | Every time that Sartre asserts the enveloping movement of the historical process , while adding emphatically that he has yet not proved that such a totalization exists , he must always simultaneously introduce a counterstructure of repetition , so that his argument seems to fluctuate , like the groups that he describes , ‘ in a state of perpetual detotalisation ’ ( I , 579 ) . |
| 20 | He is usually accompanied by a stalker and gillie , local men who are familiar with the herds and their habits , and who know the country like the back of their hands and can help lead those doing the shooting to the right place . |
| 21 | ‘ I know it like the back of my hand . ’ |
| 22 | And I bet she 's got a face like the back end of a sheep . ’ |
| 23 | Naturally he wanted a top man to carry his bag , a man who knew St Andrews like the back of his hand — someone young and capable of clubbing him perfectly over the home of golf 's fickle links , no matter what the weather . |
| 24 | Tip was a three-handicapper and , of course , knew St Andrews like the back of his hand . |
| 25 | ‘ Oscar knows the countryside around here like the back of his paw . ’ |
| 26 | The front , like the back , was made as two 6ft sections through a few adjustments were made in order to incorporate a door and windows . |
| 27 | I said , ‘ But what about all that gunge that 's in the way , like the back of my tongue and Adam 's apple and so on ? ’ |
| 28 | This is called It Was Good In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good . |
| 29 | Would you like that one again , In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good now we have the dug out how food is presented erm can say so much , at least it does to me and , so that , so that the beginning of this poem became from er the food , piece of food held in the hand of the mayor in this picture . |
| 30 | ‘ You should learn your river and your places like the back of your hand , ’ a senior officer said . |