Example sentences of "like [art] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the one about the army camp demonstration ? ’ |
| 2 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 3 | Urban Myths ( Virgin , £3.99 ) is a fun little stocking-filler of more than 200 tall tales that stretch truth to breaking point — like the one about the poodle in the microwave . |
| 4 | It must be noted that , according to well established case law , the worker automatically hired by virtue of a judicial decision like the one of the SCC has the right , as any other worker , to be really employed , within the framework of good faith , good morals and usage 's . |
| 5 | Like the one with the rib through it ? |
| 6 | Would n't it be nice if overseas pilgrims to Shakespeare 's town had something to remind them of home , and there 's nothing quite so familiar as a lamp post just like the one on the corner back home in Lisbon perhaps . |
| 7 | All the book needs to make it worthy of recommendation as an introduction to this enjoyable branch of mathematics is a health warning like the one on the tobacco advertisements : ‘ Reading this book can damage your understanding of physical reality ’ . |
| 8 | An image can either be a ‘ supporting actor ’ , like the one on the left , which complements the document without being too overpowering ; or it can be the ‘ star attraction ’ , like the one on the right , dominating the page |
| 9 | An image can either be a ‘ supporting actor ’ , like the one on the left , which complements the document without being too overpowering ; or it can be the ‘ star attraction ’ , like the one on the right , dominating the page |
| 10 | He was a back seat passenger in the family Sierra and was wearing a lap seat belt like the one on the left , when the crash happened . |
| 11 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 12 | So you would n't you would just er mind er the kind of less fancy it would n't be particularly made like the one in the North End it was cart and a horse . |
| 13 | The light switch , round and brown like the one in the hall , was on the wall next to the dresser . |
| 14 | By March , he 'd won the right to remove incompetent principals — like the one in the Bronx who had been convicted of possessing crack cocaine . |
| 15 | Lee switched on the light and the bulb went , like the one in the kitchen yesterday . |
| 16 | Worse come to the worse , she brought the Headmaster in with his cane and he was er like the one in the stories , skilled to rule , but anyway his most proficiency was wielding this cane , which was a good three foot long . |
| 17 | She 's holding up this straw hat — a bit like the one in the picture on my wall — you know , the one with the man in the boat . |
| 18 | I used to gaze at it and wish that I could have a dog just like the one in the picture . |
| 19 | The tank should now look like the one in the illustration . |
| 20 | At home , place the plant in a cage , made like the one in the drawing . |
| 21 | And she herself had urged on the flames of the drawing-room fire with a goose-feather fan , like the one in the glass case . |
| 22 | Her evening soirees , like the one in the photograph , became a thing of the past . |
| 23 | It was a four-poster bed , like the one in the guest-room — that much she had realised during the night — but the room itself was bigger , with a balcony beyond double french doors with pots of geraniums on it . |