Example sentences of "[conj] something like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 2 | In particular data being used by the dual processors must be stored on the the processors have to be attached to a IBM 9333 high performance disk system , shared data must be capable of storage on raw disk configurations rather than something like the the AIX Journaled File System and software must be specifically configured to work with the HACMP/6000 Distributed Lock Manager . |
| 3 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 4 | The evaluators must conclude that something like the input of resources which characterised the Essex project is a necessary condition for improving library provision and associated resources ( Objective 3 ) and to facilitate reforms in pedagogy , but that it is by no means a sufficient condition for significant change . |
| 5 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 6 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , many people find it hard to believe that something like the eye , Paley 's favourite example , so complex and well designed , with so many interlocking working parts , could have arisen from small beginnings by a gradual series of step-by-step changes . |
| 7 | But finally there was a victory , a quiet one in his own breast , and something like the elevation of disdain over stupidity and meanness , and rest after the long battle . |
| 8 | And it would seem that the park and ride service and something like the parks and the Robin Hood line would transport a lot of people . |
| 9 | There is therefore very much in Engels 's discussion of existing political organization which is still acceptable ; however , recent anthropological work makes it clear that if something like the notion of the gentile constitution is to be retained , the concept would have to be broadened to include a much greater variety of such systems than was , or could have been , envisaged by the founders of Marxism . |
| 10 | The situation would be very different , however , if something like the no-boundary proposal were correct . |
| 11 | ‘ So , with all my thoughts channelled of necessity elsewhere , ’ he continued , ‘ is it so surprising if something like the position of a needle on a petrol gauge does occasionally escape my attention ? ’ |
| 12 | These exact boundaries date from local government reorganization in 1974 but something like the present administrative area has existed since the establishment of regional commissioners for the maintenance of supplies in the 1920s . |
| 13 | But something like the choir or where you 've been working , I do n't know you , I , I 've got this thing which is |
| 14 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |