Example sentences of "[noun] like the following " in BNC.
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| 1 | After practising these positions the Brazilian learning English would need to practise more complex combinations like the following . |
| 2 | So that even in a passage like the following , which is moving away from Locke 's philosophic teaching , Locke 's influence is apparent . |
| 3 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 4 | For instance , someone contemplating a sentence like the following ( from an issue of Women 's Journal ) might be excused for suspecting that so-called ‘ natural gender ’ is natural only if one happens to be male : |
| 5 | Consistent with these characteristics will be agreement with statements like the following : |
| 6 | Thus the statement that That 's a dog entails That 's an animal can be viewed as a kind of shorthand for a pattern of normality like the following : |
| 7 | But Grice provides an example like the following : ( 41 ) A : I do think Mrs Jenkins is an old windbag , do n't you ? |
| 8 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 9 | In the speech of many young black Londoners , exchanges like the following take place : ( 2 ) A : It was a wicked party , man ! |
| 10 | They may include sentences like the following which are all taken from The Alternative Service Book , the revised , modern language prayer book . |
| 11 | Confusion over whether some sentences like the following are tenseless or " eternal " in part stems from a deep equivocation over the term tense . |
| 12 | And there was also the enigmatic poem Farai Un vers de dreyt nien — " I 'll sing a song about nothing at all " — with verses like the following : |