Example sentences of "from [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas from groups like Voice for Young People in Care are appropriate . |
| 2 | He believes that an increasing number of vehicle and equipment makers who currently build their own engines will be forced to buy at least some of what they need from independents like Perkins . |
| 3 | They have been attracted as much by the intellectual image as by the high level of celebrity support from artists like John Cleese , Peter Gabriel and Sting . |
| 4 | Lacy and the Valencian conspirators could count on wider support , from merchants like Beltrán de Lis — in contact with officers as an army contractor — to shoemakers and farmers . |
| 5 | It aims to lure readers away from titles like Bauer 's Take A Break and G&J 's Best . |
| 6 | His game-plan ensured , he set off into the advertising world , swiftly rising from accounts like Oxfam , Nescafé and the Government 's drink-and-drive campaign at Wasey Campbell- Ewald to Tinker and Partners , where he became deputy to Caroline Le Bas . |
| 7 | I buy most of them in America from designers like Anne Klein or Donna Karan — the choice in America is so much wider . |
| 8 | Falmouth Bridal Centre stock dresses for sale and hire in sizes 10 to 26 from designers like Ronald Joyce and Hilary Morgan — there 's over 400 designs to choose from and over 800 bridesmaid dresses to complement . |
| 9 | If you ca n't find your dress from designers like Lucy Rowlandson and Special Day , a qualified seamstress of Theodosia Bridal Studio can create one for you . |
| 10 | As Kalchu and I and some of the other men set out for home , they started to gather it up and hack off the dead branches that jut out from pine-trunks like thin stumps of arms . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | How had set up a property firm called Prosperpoint , and transferred investment cash from clients like Mr and Mrs Artus to a bank in the Isle of Man , then on to Switzerland , and back to Prosperpoint . |
| 13 | We try to pretend that sex is n't so important , that we are just like everyone else , just as we sought to distance ourselves from books like The Milkman 's On His Way during the Section 28 debates . |
| 14 | In the late 1790s and early 1800s , when the poems mentioned above were written , Wordsworth was trying to justify and illustrate educational theories ultimately derived from books like Rousseau 's Émile ( see page 75 ) . |
| 15 | But just as Eliot remarked that Shakespeare acquired from Plutarch more essential knowledge than most men could from the whole British Museum , so he himself seemed to have acquired from books like F. S. Oliver 's Endless Adventure an extraordinary grasp of historical movements and tendencies , for example the seventeenth century ‘ disassociation of sensibility ’ was a piece of historical perception which no pure historian would have been able to originate . |
| 16 | However , with knowledge gleaned from books like this , displays in museums , an eagle eye and infinite patience , bargains could , and will still be found — for tens of pounds , rather than hundreds . |
| 17 | Second , they put themselves on the defensive by shying away from subjects like food scares and by protecting the rogues within their industry . |
| 18 | The OED suggests , without conviction , that it might come from words like Old English ( ge ) lingan , ‘ to happen ’ , giving then a basic meaning of ‘ happenstance , whatever turns up ’ . |
| 19 | In return , you get a disdainful glance from large , lustrous , long-lashed eyes and a curl of contempt from lips like prehensile sausages . |
| 20 | It is possible , from Importers like Solway to buy the FAX/MODEM only cards for under £100 , and the Teleputer cards should be shipping soon , and Steve Mace from Solway believes they could be as cheap as £150 ! ! ! |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd had a couple of years to put the break-up into perspective and I know , personally , I was missing the lads and the buzz I used to get from songs like ‘ Suspect Devices ’ and ‘ Straw Dogs ’ . |
| 22 | Next I would lay out pictures of a variety of TV people and characters , ranging from presenters like Cilla Black or Philip Schofield , through soap characters such as Bobby from Home and Away or Todd from Neighbours , to puppets such as Edd the Duck , who appears alongside the presenter in children 's BBC television . |
| 23 | For example , it is possible for doctors to monitor how well you are , so that if your health deteriorates to a point at which you may be at risk from infections like PCP ( a virulent pneumonia ) , drugs can be prescribed which prevent or significantly delay their onset . |
| 24 | The commonest example of time-lapse stop-motion used to be in biology films , like the old Rank Secrets of Nature by Mary Field or innumerable educational films for schools from companies like Encyclopaedia Britannica Films . |
| 25 | Claire 's father says that without sponsorship from companies like Foster Wheeler Wood Group , special coaching and participation in Europe would not be possible . |
| 26 | But it was also the day an independent report suggested his defence cuts had led to far greater job losses than expected , especially in defence dependent areas like Gloucestershire where thousands have been made redundant from companies like Dowties and Smiths Industries . |
| 27 | Ministers are convinced that unless they stand firm against economic migrants , the West faces ‘ chaos and great unhappiness ’ and they privately cite peremptory US treatment of unwanted immigrants from countries like Mexico and Haiti . |
| 28 | I AM appalled that while people from countries like Bosnia can come to Britain for live-saving operations under the NHS , our own over-50s with heart problems are being refused treatment and drugs . |
| 29 | Er but they 're still different from countries like Rumania and Russia and so on |
| 30 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |