Example sentences of "on [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some ‘ improvements ’ to the grazing have meant the draining of small marshes and this , of course , can have a serious effect on birds like snipe and redshank . |
| 2 | Since independence in 1980 , white landlords have freely sold the government enough land to resettle 52,000 black families on projects like the one at Musengezi . |
| 3 | So far , Detroit city officials have pinned their redevelopment hopes on projects like the Poletown plant . |
| 4 | Even temporary roads constructed from compacted snow can damage the habitat , so naturally there are many restrictions on projects like drilling wells . |
| 5 | Visually handicapped people sometimes experience difficulty in distinguishing similar products and so Tesco has introduced braille where possible on products like household cleaners . |
| 6 | disclose : I feel : irritated/like I do n't matter/defeated. predict : if you do this , I can work more efficiently/I know you 're busy , but if you do this we 'll both save time on discussions like this/I 'd be better motivated if you did . |
| 7 | I also go to conferences , seminars , speak on programmes like Farming Today , appear on television and write letters . |
| 8 | Well twenty years ago I was on programmes like this , saying that doctors who said that Valium and the other tranquillizers were perfectly safe were talking rubbish and that there was every possibility that there would be problems found in the future , if we kept prescribing these drugs for vast numbers of people . |
| 9 | have you ever done anything apart from coming on programmes like this and talking about it , have you ever done anything against it ? |
| 10 | Later in the same month he called the BBC ‘ wicked , brazen and sinister ’ for cashing in on programmes like Postman and by selling spin-off products . |
| 11 | You see , on programmes like Crime Watch U K , where erm they 've got these Aladdin 's caves on all these stolen items that can never be returned to their owners , it 's very , very difficult to sort of mark silverware and things like that without devaluing it ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Thus it was a good location for dispersal of engineering and sites were readily available on estates like Chirton . |
| 14 | It 's antics like this which have become a major problem in towns and cities up and down the country in recent years , generating fear on estates like Blackbird Leys in Oxford . |
| 15 | I 'm only saying that but yes , I I I take your point , er , as I say , I 'm currently er a neighbourhood beat officer , I 'm gon na become the crime prevention officer very shortly but I can go on estates like and they say , I have n't seen you for ages ! |
| 16 | That will increase pressure here to spend more on cities like Liverpool . |
| 17 | The standard bearers of this non-existent sexuality were ageing musos such as Chris Barber ( whose ‘ Petit Fleur ’ from April '59 is credited with instigating the ‘ trad ’ boom ) and Acker Bilk , playing inconsequential variants on ditties like ‘ The Saints Go Marching In ’ that had had their day in turn of the century Lousians . |
| 18 | So use the normal rules on the approach side for those , I E roundabout rules , but going back onto the signals again , on roundabouts like that do n't give unnecessary signals . |
| 19 | We can then fit into the convention binding agreements on subjects like energy efficiency and forestry , as the science and the political will come into balance . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm quite capable of making up my own mind on subjects like vegetarianism . |
| 21 | They were nicknamed the Urban Gorillas , producing witty , hard-hitting features on subjects like the Playboy Bunny Mansion . |
| 22 | What can be done to harness this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain , the greenhouse effect , nuclear weapons , and genetic engineering ? |
| 23 | At their first meeting his innuendo on such words as ‘ fight ’ , ‘ tame ’ , ‘ deeds ’ , ‘ activity ’ ( III.ii.39–59 ) seems to be contagious , for in an encounter unique in Shakespeare two lovers who have previously spoken verse actually descend to prose for their first conversation , to exchange bawdy double meanings on words like ‘ monster ’ , ‘ monstrous ’ , ‘ will ’ , ‘ execution ’ , ‘ act ’ , and ‘ performance ’ ( 62–99 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Clearly there are dialectal differences , accent differences , as well as ‘ register ’ differences depending on variables like the topic of discussion and the roles of the participants ( see e.g. Trudgill , 1974 and Hudson , 1980 for discussion of these sorts of differences ) . |
| 26 | What we are interested in is the different sorts of inferences which we make as addressees , depending on variables like the age and sex of the speaker , as a result of hearing what B says . |
| 27 | After all , it has already been done on animals like mice and sheep . |
| 28 | Funky guitars copulate with abrasive melodies on songs like ‘ Lucky Me ’ , but it 's not all based on jumped-up jollification . |
| 29 | He is less conspicuous in opposing the Social Charter as a costly threat to jobs if the standards of Germany are to be imposed on countries like Britain . |
| 30 | He is less conspicuous in opposing the Social Charter as a costly threat to jobs if the standards of Germany are to be imposed on countries like Britain . |