Example sentences of "of [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was pigs of majors like you . ’ |
| 2 | He had a way of beating the offside trap of defenders like Newcastle 's McCracken by waiting until the ball was in his own half of the field before attacking . |
| 3 | Plant tubers indoors for stocks of dahlias like ‘ Inca Royale ’ |
| 4 | And then she 'll miss all those amazingly absorbing dinner parties with great heads of states like Billy Bubongoronga from Back-of-Beyond province or whatever . |
| 5 | And on a grander scale , there 's the controversial battle-readiness and barricades rhetoric of acts like Public Enemy and Niggers With Attitude . |
| 6 | If you usually think of products like bread or beans as sources of carbohydrate rather than protein , it is because much of the diet literature has emphasized this aspect of these foods . |
| 7 | ‘ But this is more than offset by growth in sales of products like fish oil and evening primrose oil , where sales increases are of the order of 20% . ’ |
| 8 | Some of the recently introduced products , Itek 's PTW for example , do include full WYSIWYG and are menu rather than command driven but they sacrifice the raw power of products like TeX ( pronounced tech ) or JustText . |
| 9 | She says she believes women can support each other equally strongly , with more positive aims in mind ; ‘ Women do unite together on projects and support each other — the fact that feminism survives , and the existence of projects like Spare Rib , show how well women work together . ’ |
| 10 | With a last desperate heave the steel door slammed shut , slicing off the row of fingers like falling skittles . |
| 11 | In the case of planets like Venus , where surface features are obscured , this is an important way of determining the axial period and axial inclination . |
| 12 | Life is full of tragedies like that . |
| 13 | Alongside Mo Wax , new records bearing the names of operations like Zero , Party Rockin' , Somethin' Else and Soul Jazz have recently found the light of day . |
| 14 | So from your point of view , despite , presumably you had a number of operations like |
| 15 | Yes , I spoke to Mo Magill , he 'll see us tomorrow morning , we 'll fly up on the shuttle , I do n't know what we 'll get , but … and I 've got a line into St Louis : there 's a thing called the Western Manuscripts collection at UMSL — ghastly word , but they use it themselves , it means University of Missouri-St Louis — that latches on to the papers of operations like CCOAC , and they 've got them . |
| 16 | World-system theories did not originate in the study of phenomena like the modern UK economy . |
| 17 | The X-factor , what the film people call ‘ bankability ’ when talking of superstars like John Wayne or Paul Newman or Barbra Streisand , was missing . |
| 18 | Would such a man talk of fairies like this ? |
| 19 | And there was hundreds of contracts like that in the quarry , everybody was on their own for t thing , you know . |
| 20 | Physical decay extends across whole areas of cities like Birmingham , Glasgow , Leeds , Liverpool , London , Manchester , Newcastle and Sheffield . |
| 21 | By the end of our period immigrants formed a substantial majority not only of countries like Australia , and of cities like New York and Chicago , but of Stockholm , Christiania ( the present Oslo ) , Budapest , Berlin and Rome ( between 55 and 60 per cent ) of Paris and Vienna ( c. 65 per cent ) . |
| 22 | According to the state 's traffic planning department , traffic calming had improved the economic performance of cities like Dusseldorf . |
| 23 | Its many digressions into the lives of artists like Rudolphe Bresdin , an early influence on Odilon Redon , suggest that either Eisenman did not have enough primary material for his main task , or that he was simply much more interested in the hapless engraver Bresdin . |
| 24 | The monastery is full of wayfarers like me , ghosts with half a name ( I feel I 'm between names at the moment ) . |
| 25 | If Heisenberg 's matrix mechanics , or Schrödinger 's wave mechanics , had not given the right answers for the behaviour of objects like hydrogen atoms then certainly no one would have got very excited about them . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that trespass is actionable per se , there is some authority to the effect that trespass to goods requires proof of some damage or asportation but the general view of textbook writers is to the contrary and there must be many instances where , if mere touching of objects like waxworks or exhibits in a gallery or museum be not trespass , their possessor would be without remedy . |
| 27 | This independence of the speed of the system was first discovered by Galileo , who developed the laws of motion of objects like cannonballs or planets . |
| 28 | And Miss Plum walks through the playground carrying two heavy bags , and in a flash I am beside her , smiling a face full of teeth like Tom in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 29 | A set of teeth like pincers , biting upon one another , i.e. both rows of the incisors touching each other directly , is still admissible . |
| 30 | Four years ago , we would have said of blokes like Cathal Coughlan and Patrick Kane : pop needs more figures like them , spiky , striving , sussed . |