Example sentences of "about [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one astonished young woman asked what was degenerate or obscene about artists like Nolde , Chagall , Marc , Macke , Kirchner or Heckel . |
| 2 | ‘ The worst thing about programmes like Xuxa 's is that they force the idea down children 's throats that life is a bed of roses , ’ says Nilde Moreira Santos , a primary school teacher in the North-eastern city of Salvador . |
| 3 | As one reflection of this , telephone calls about matters like this were occasionally terminated by the slamming down of the receiver , followed by the defiant expletives of ‘ old bag ’ , ‘ old cow ’ , or ‘ bastard ’ , which Manning 's ethnography shows is a common closing remark among disgruntled policemen ( 1977 , p. xiv ) . |
| 4 | Included in this domestic surveillance programme were well-known names such as Jane Fonda , Joan Baez , Dr Benjamin Spock , Dr Martin Luther King and many others who , at the time , had been outspoken critics about matters like civil rights and the Vietnam war . |
| 5 | But if you 're going to talk about countries like Turkey , for example , one of the provisions about membership is that there is no dispute as to boundaries , that there are no conflicts on your border , that you have a good humans right re human rights record . |
| 6 | There are those who shake their heads and make negative noises about guidebooks like this , but there is an argument that says the publication of a Corbetts guide could take some of the pressure off the Munros . |
| 7 | I think you should make more effort to find out about places like this , and I think the schools should make an effort to tell you . |
| 8 | He wrote : ‘ To judge by a lot of the stuff written about bands like U2 , you 'd be forgiven for thinking that rock starts are the new Messiahs . |
| 9 | Professional builders have mixed feelings about efforts like the PDQ . |
| 10 | I now had to start thinking about things like that . |
| 11 | I can be a bit awkward about things like this . ’ |
| 12 | She 's a really lovely woman but she 's not very bright about things like this . |
| 13 | ‘ The course is good because it makes you think about things like how to lay out a kitchen , ’ Ms Sutherland-Dodd says . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not right to be joking about things like that , ’ he said . |
| 15 | You do n't want to think about things like that . ’ |
| 16 | I bet there 's no other boys your age thinking about things like that . ’ |
| 17 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
| 18 | He should n't have been thinking about things like that at his age ! ’ |
| 19 | I 'm thinking : I 'm not wearing this , or I 'm not wearing that , my leg shows in that ; but it 's funny , it 's only really at parties that I worry about things like that . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you have to laugh about things like this , do n't you , otherwise you 'd go out of your mind . |
| 21 | I am only guessing because we do not talk about things like that . |
| 22 | Sometimes I think we have been too conservative and worried about things like a hi-hat not sounding right and we have lost the edge . |
| 23 | Do not worry about things like night clothes and toilet things — the hospital will have everything that you could need . |
| 24 | I smiled and went on down the train , getting the feel of it now , understanding the way it was put together , beginning to wonder about things like electricity , water supply and sewage . |
| 25 | They did n't get the information they needed , so they knew nothing about things like alternative positions during labour . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Joan , how is it that you know — about things like that ? ’ |
| 27 | In this there is a kind of truth ( for Tolkien was kind-hearted about things like the ‘ evacuation ’ of Minas Tirith and the survival of Bill the pony ) , but also an evident falsehood . |
| 28 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 29 | But never mind no time to worry about things like that . |
| 30 | Now so far we 've talked about things like recharging the batteries . |