Example sentences of "like the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unexceptional though the proposals are , their widespread endorsement could have two unwelcome effects for Mr de Klerk : of internationalising negotiations for reform , and of marginalising other potentially important representatives of the black majority , like the Zulu leader Chief Buthelezi . |
| 2 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 3 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 4 | WITH saviours like the European Community 's bureaucrats , the electronics industry of Europe hardly needs enemies . |
| 5 | The success of a brood parasite like the European cuckoo depends on how well it can ‘ dupe ’ its host , whether reed warbler or dunnock . |
| 6 | The indigo birds and whydahs of Africa are brood parasites just like the European cuckoo , but there are some interesting differences in the ways in which they have adapted to a parasitic lifestyle . |
| 7 | The most likely explanation of anting is that it helps birds like the European jay to keep their feathers in good condition . |
| 8 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 9 | International football , like the European club scene , is a major source of cash as well as prestige for the Scottish game . |
| 10 | DIRECTORS of public bodies like the Central Electricity Generating Board and the UK Atomic Energy Authority do not only arouse controversial views in the press it seems . |
| 11 | NewCo will be mutually owned , like the central fund . |
| 12 | However , we believe that there are much larger objects in the universe , like the central regions of galaxies , that can also undergo gravitational collapse to produce black holes ; an astronaut on one of these would not be torn apart before the black hole formed . |
| 13 | I would actually like to know your answer to this question , since I have been discussing with one or two other people whether one could hope to persuade Regional Railways to introduce a cheap fare for small groups of people , say on winter weekdays on quiet lines like the Central Wales and the Cambrian Coast . |
| 14 | Later , he showed her around and told her in detail the things that needed doing to the house , and she imagined her father here , sliding down the banisters or across the ballroom floor , and she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her like the muffling fog . |
| 15 | It had made the day perfect when Gran paid for her and Adam to have a ride ; she could still remember the glorious whoosh to and fro , the sense of riding in the air like the wheeling gulls , the bitter disappointment when the woman in charge came to catch their swing boat and tell them their time was up . |
| 16 | Staring helplessly after the departing vehicle , she felt a light breeze cooling the mist of perspiration that had dampened her temples , and the fine peacock-blue cotton of her full skirt — Faye had decreed ‘ no uniform ’ — flared and dropped again , caressing her bare legs like the teasing touch of a man 's fingers . |
| 17 | She said the police would come to take me into the stockade like the cruel and wild animal I was . |
| 18 | Like the 41-foot tree trunk under which Hippocrates , the father of medicine , was said to have made the world 's first diagnoses and issued the first prescriptions . |
| 19 | Souza , like the murdered leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho [ see pp. 36459 ; 37914 ] , was a well known environmentalist who campaigned against the destruction of the rain forest for cattle pasture , and against cattle ranchers who expelled and often killed landless workers who occupied their land . |
| 20 | Features like the key pouch on the side pocket and the expanding lid are practical , not gimmicky . |
| 21 | But the record since 1945 suggests that it is highly improbable that the British people will play anything like the major role in the affairs of mankind in the twenty-first century that they have done so frequently , if often unavailingly , in the course of the twentieth . |
| 22 | There may have been some weather impact in the last two months , but basically , it looks like the major U S oil companies that were going overseas are still spending money on buying leases and building up infrastructure . |
| 23 | Researchers who depend on grants from organizations like the Economic and Social Research Council , or from private foundations like the Gulbenkian , Ford , or Joseph Rowntree , will only be able to carry out their enquiry if it is approved by the organization in question . |
| 24 | Other factors , like the economic standards of communities , the design , quality , management and maintenance of houses had to be examined . |
| 25 | erm , organizations like the Economic and Social Research |
| 26 | So there are , there are problems with this sort of policy in terms of , of the , like the economic logic of it is that yes you go for a rich peasant economy which creates inequalities which will provide you with industrialization , which will then enable you to get back to inequalities but , in term back to equality |
| 27 | Like the real jungle , the music business holds a dual attraction for the entrepreneur : the thrill of a gamble and the chance of a quick large profit . |
| 28 | 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE THE REAL THING |
| 29 | looks like the REAL THING |
| 30 | I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act . |