Example sentences of "[noun pl] like [det] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerations like this played a major part in determining Government policy in the crises of the 1930s . |
| 2 | For both children modern gadgets like these make a huge difference when it comes to learning about the world around them . |
| 3 | So there 'll clearly be some fight before signs like this become a new feature of the Ridgeway . |
| 4 | This is a serious problem , for defects like these have a dramatic effect on the functioning of an electronic device , and it would be desirable to be able to predict their properties . |
| 5 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |
| 6 | Processing scratch cards like this needs a central computer system , last year a hundred and fifty million dollar contract to do the job was awarded to a smaller rival , High Integrity Systems , in April Mrs cancelled that contract , after , the company says sixty five million dollars had been spent on the project . |