Example sentences of "for [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essentially for reasons like these that the governments of the new democracies of Eastern Europe look to privatization as a way forward . |
| 2 | It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions . |
| 3 | He would be oblivious to everything for weeks on end , then had short bursts of punishing anyone on sight for reasons like opening your eyes when waking up . |
| 4 | For reasons like these , it would seem a dangerous policy to ignore the processing of non-words entirely in one 's theorising about the organisation of the mental lexicon ; hence we must consider now what the mechanisms might be that people use when processing non-lexical verbal stimuli ( spoken or written non-words ) . |
| 5 | So again for reasons like that , we have to maintain the confidence of the client . |
| 6 | Thus , the demand patterns for products like coal , steel and heavy goods vehicles decline rapidly in a recession , ( and may be subject to a level of demand during boom conditions that they simply can not meet ) . |
| 7 | We can feed them information on Russian intentions in exchange for scraps like this tip about the Bonnard car . ’ |
| 8 | Surely Clinton 's presidency will be a double-edged sword for comics like Hicks ? |
| 9 | Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it ! |
| 10 | But in the hotel and restaurant industry , the GRiDPad 's 12-hour rechargeable power pack and its genuine portability make it viable for operations like stocktaking . |
| 11 | They managed to avoid the panning reserved for contemporaries like Bogshed who were termed : ‘ Four twisted misanthropes trying to make a career out of sneering at people ’ by Dave Jennings in the NME . |
| 12 | Put another way , she had been plucked and prepared for meetings like this as carefully as a goose is dressed for the oven . |
| 13 | The same goes for cocktails like Manhattan and Mint Julep . |
| 14 | Then I heard the growls of support coming from our own side for proposals like Family Credit and the ending of SERPS . |
| 15 | For market indices based on a small number of shares , such as the MMI with only 20 shares , arbitrage using all the shares in the index is much easier than for indices like the NYSE Composite , which comprises about 1700 shares . |
| 16 | ‘ I went to Ron Grainer , who had written themes for programmes like Maigret and Steptoe and Son , and asked him how he would feel trying to achieve a melody electronically . |
| 17 | We still made a certain amount of buckets and bins and things like that which was their stock in trade , but mostly it was erm was erm bomb fins and mortar bombs aerial bombs erm er and er things like er fins for bombs like that . |
| 18 | For experts like Belfast-based Campbell Freight Agencies Limited — who also operate from Dublin and Cork — such massive moves are a matter of course . |
| 19 | So for experts like you , is it something you could have expected last night ? |
| 20 | Provisional bookings have already been made for entertainers like Freddie Starr , Bob Monkhouse and Tammy Wynette to play the former Beehive Ballroom in McMullen Road . |
| 21 | For groups like Queer Nation , who have defended the work of such gay artists as Robert Mapplethorpe , this is a disastrous argument in favour of censorship . |
| 22 | On the other hand the loss of heather has meant a contraction of the breeding-grounds for birds like golden plover , dunlin , and perhaps whimbrel , although the post-breeding flocks of these species seem to favour the re-seeded grassland . |
| 23 | Langbaurgh Council , which owns the Skippers lane land , gets hundreds of requests for units like these . ’ |
| 24 | It does not all go , however ; there is always some energy left in store for emergencies like leaf fall or breakage that needs sealing with callus no fools , these plants ! - and it is this stored energy in the node that is utilized to form firstly healing callus tissue , and then ‘ adventitious ’ tissue , such as roots when we make cuttings with stem growth above a node , or growth buds when the cut is above the node and its attendant eye . |
| 25 | The best there is for kids like Angel . ’ |
| 26 | When Nick Logan at NME advertised for ‘ Hip Young Gunslingers ’ , he was looking for kids like Parsons who could articulate the inarticulate : punk . |
| 27 | But these days , with space at a premium , a room kept solely for dining is rare ; the chances are that it has to double as a work room , say for hobbies like model making , or as a quiet place where the family can get on with homework , studying or other paperwork . |
| 28 | Politics has also meant little time for hobbies like reading , music , badminton and cricket . |
| 29 | Mr Mann also urged that people lighting their bonfire should check for pets like the family tortoise and hedgehogs which may have hibernated there . |
| 30 | I think of these schemata as one from of the gardens of the mystics for images like flowers are transplanted to our mental gardens . |