Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may prefer arrangements based on institutions like the church and the shop but gangs and parties are also forms of social institution , not perhaps quite so easy to break down and displace as ‘ disorganization , would imply . |
| 2 | For those that actually trust people like the electricity and the gas company and the local council sticking grubby little fingers into their bank accounts without let or hindrance , Finchley , North London-based Telesmart Ltd has launched ADDACS Connect , an MS-DOS software package designed to process changes to those iniquitous direct debit transactions automatically : direct debit originators can link their computers to the Automatic Direct Debit Amendment and Cancellation System provided by the UK Bankers Automated Clearing Service , to retrieve direct debit changes ; the £1,000 package is available now . |
| 3 | When , on isolated occasions such as the tragic accidents at Basle and Chicago , things really go wrong , it is vital that the accident investigating authorities like the NTSB and the AIB are totally independent of those great and influential organisations that regulate the industry . |
| 4 | Put cream and the expensive bits , not like the chicken and the time it takes |
| 5 | The image of a body simply can not do justice , we are saying , to the reality of — and our complex emotional reaction to — overpowering physical realities like the sea or the night-sky ( however much we may be told that the stars are a twinkle in God 's eye ! ) . |
| 6 | Everybody has More or less has a paper It 's not like the Scotsman or the News , as regards numbers , but then you 've got all the local news and you got all the local advertisements . |
| 7 | doing dialect there 's still a things like the wireless and the weather things like that sometimes give it a personality as a . |
| 8 | And er this th has to be thirty one degrees to the level , so that er you follow the stars as they travel around the sky , because they 're always highest in the south and like the sun and the moon they 're always highest when they 're due south . |
| 9 | A breakdown is possible only for large-circulation papers like the Sun and the Mirror . |
| 10 | They were a best-selling group without real fans , more like the Archies than the Sex Pistols , and they lost significance as rapidly as they gained it . |
| 11 | He was like the vicar or the mayor , ’ says Italo . |
| 12 | There is no justification whatever for an increase in the budget on anything like the scale that the Commissioner proposed . |
| 13 | Papers like the NME and the Guardian ca n't ignore these masculine genres , but find it hard to understand or reinterpret them : instead they 've devised several strategies for skirting round them . |
| 14 | Like the policeman and the clergyman , he is ‘ never off duty ’ , so that he must be seen to lead a life of probity . |
| 15 | This forecast suggests that the future will consist of business cycles just like the present and the past . |
| 16 | Carroll in Forest Gate argued that ‘ class legislation ’ was impossible , ‘ especially at a time like the present when the nation is stirred to its very vitals by unemployment and general stagnation of trade ’ ( Election leaflet 1921 ) . |
| 17 | I think that 's , I mean I think that 's why the , the two interesting ends of the U K press are the tabloid end , because it looks , it looks as if it 's sort of forged in the heat of hot metal and steaminess and erm the top end and things like the Express and The Mail seem to be entirely flabby in the middle . |
| 18 | The atmosphere was more like the Budget than an announcement on social security . |
| 19 | As Barth once put it , he and Brunner were like the elephant and the whale : both were God 's creatures , but it was impossible for them to meet ! |
| 20 | And the assiduity with which Carolingian taxes like the fodrum or the pedagium were revived compensated in some measure . |
| 21 | And it takes it must take a lot longer to produce a plane like the Tornado and a Spitfire or a Lancaster in erm the days of erm nineteen forty three |
| 22 | Highbrow papers like the Guardian or the Telegraph were able to influence their readers at least as much as the tabloids on issues ( like unilateralism or the economy ) but not on voting choice . |
| 23 | like the date and the time you know along the top right |
| 24 | Nor could he tax : he simply did not have the power to levy impositions like the taille and the gabelle , as the French king did . |
| 25 | Like the Aubrac and the Gascon , its horns are quite long ( indeed , a feature of the breed ) and grow outwards and rather pertly upwards , then curving backwards and outwards . |
| 26 | But now they will be much more human beings like the people we meet in our lives than those stock response , cut-out figures like the Vamp and the Villain ( to go for examples to the world of Hindi films ) . |
| 27 | These offers should be avoided like the plague as the mounting of recruitment drives under the guise of educational activities is nothing less than taking unfair advantage . |
| 28 | This is not confined to those that have a direct moral influence , like the monarchy and the church , but also touches other structures , like the Stock Exchange and the City , which previously drew their strength from adhering to a strict code of honour and trust . |
| 29 | The Mesquite main strip aspires to being Las Vegas without anything like the money or the reputation . |
| 30 | ‘ In the end I became like the chaplain or the lady who did the hair or the manicurist. patients would ask , ‘ has the artist done you yet ? ’ |