Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're for things like spot cream . |
| 2 | The boys are the worst , especially if they 're in gangs like the ones here . |
| 3 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 4 | He had been in scenes like this with his teenage daughters , and he kept thinking : ‘ I must stay cool . ’ |
| 5 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 6 | Well I could probably get somebody who would be into comics like and then that would maybe start you talking and then like , but he could still be an old wanker sure |
| 7 | The agreement stipulates there will be no fundamental alterations to DCE and any changes are likely to be in areas like internationalisation . |
| 8 | Sludgeful though they may be in pieces like The Space … ( complete with pseudo-planetarium backdrop ) , and while Warm Wet Circles keeps receding and then returning like some particularly tiresome romantic symphony , Marillion sometimes achieve genuine vastness . |
| 9 | So th the sort of help that was that would come to the surface would it be at times like birth , death , accidents ? |
| 10 | In the eighteen-forties , the department stores really came into being with places like Debenham and Freebodys and Selfridges , where everything could be purchased under one roof , which made things much easier . |
| 11 | There was a phase of the women 's liberation movement in the 70s that just saw the kinds of things that affect middle class women , they were into things like equal pay . |
| 12 | They were in rows like a football team , the people in the front row all kneeling on the ground . |
| 13 | The background changes and in a way the background is about things like the visual aids , flipcharts and er the use of video and er even these peripherals you can put on a on a overhead projector now that plug into a computer . |
| 14 | That 's for things like looking after babies who 've been left alone too long , or playing with little kids who get lonely . |
| 15 | That 's for things like this , I put these in there . |
| 16 | That 's for imbeciles like Amelia Dorf . |
| 17 | It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions . |
| 18 | The best there is for kids like Angel . ’ |
| 19 | It is through patterns like this that most adults learn something of attachment and separation . |
| 20 | A better way to approach him is through books like Modern Linguistics — The Results of Chomsky 's Revolution by Neil Smith and Deirdre Wilson ( Penguin , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Best of a great bunch is ‘ This Scene is Happening ’ in which singer Kate notes ‘ It 's so good to be alive ’ — it is with records like this about . |
| 22 | Best of a great bunch is ‘ This Scene is Happening ’ in which singer Kate notes ‘ It 's so good to be alive ’ — it is with records like this about . |
| 23 | ‘ I would like to have seen how brave he is with players like Ron Yates and Norman Hunter about . |
| 24 | Detroit 's electronic foragers have had pitifully few outlets in Britain — but it is in countries like Belgium , Germany and Holland that Detroit 's sonic architects are honoured and near-deified ( obviously they 're too deep for new jack wank-happy US ) . |
| 25 | Whilst it is possible that they will remain reliable instruments for a long time to come , it is in conditions like these that Titoism spawns and prospers . |
| 26 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 27 | It is in communities like these , Afrikaaner , deeply conservative , that opposition to President de Klerk 's reforms is growing . |
| 28 | In addition I think there 's some inconsistency , because within Selby district , for example , a lot of development which has been advocated in the past and is likely to be allocated in the future is in places like Selby or Sherburn in Elmet , which again are much nearer to Leeds erm than potential new settlement sites to the South and South , South West of York , and yet objection has been raised to er that particular erm element in the planning strategy for Selby , and I I ca n't see the reason why a new settlement should be treated in any different way to any other form of development in that sense . |
| 29 | It 's at moments like this that something magical happens . |
| 30 | It 's at times like this you start to see things in perspective . ’ |