Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] and [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 | doing dialect there 's still a things like the wireless and the weather things like that sometimes give it a personality as a . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A breakdown is possible only for large-circulation papers like the Sun and the Mirror . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Like the policeman and the clergyman , he is ‘ never off duty ’ , so that he must be seen to lead a life of probity . |
| 10 | This forecast suggests that the future will consist of business cycles just like the present and the past . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | like the date and the time you know along the top right |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As a piece of hardware the Touchmaster tablet appears to have a lot going for it compared with its rivals like the Grafpad and the Koala-pad . |
| 20 | We only pay about 3.00 a week but we get a lot of food , and an electricity bill , and H.P. on certain things like the fridge and the telly . |
| 21 | He had his Garryowen backs lying flat like the Aussies and the ball flashed through hands — such as Garryowen 's internationals , Phil Danaher and Richard Wallace — with all the uniform speed of a baton expertly passed without pause by a well-trained sprint relay team . |
| 22 | The idea was that particles like the proton and the neutron could be regarded as waves on a string . |
| 23 | In the great cities , people had to make more choices for themselves as traditional social institutions like the family and the church lost their grip on the individual . |
| 24 | Although the borders have long since re-opened , Zambia 's relationship with major international bodies like the IMF and the World Bank has ceased : the economic packages prescribed by these organizations were ditched in May last year . |
| 25 | Though some newspapers like the Mail and the Express harped on the theme of ‘ charity begins at home ’ , the general line was to stress the potential benefits of taking in such ‘ lively , sturdily-built and intelligent ’ children . |
| 26 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
| 27 | ‘ Some , like the osprey and the peregrine falcon , which flies even more swiftly than we do , almost died out . |
| 28 | The outbuildings , like the byre and the barn , will have to wait until later . |
| 29 | Of course it does , we look at the guidance notes , and they say things like the police and the health authorities want erm , larger units the size of the present County Council , I 'm sorry to go on . |
| 30 | So this is a bit like the speed and the distance and the time and things is n't it . |