Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had ‘ provided the opportunity for colleges like Hatfield to serve their apprenticeship and come of age in the academic sense ’ . |
| 2 | If there was plenty of off-the-croft employment , and a reasonable balance between the cost of living in town and country , there would be no need to drum up interest in agriculture through schemes like the IDP . |
| 3 | Frieda has styled hair for celebrities like Jerry Hall , Jane Seymour , Glenn Close , not to mention many Royals . |
| 4 | Should Gatting and his crew receive their paroles one 's sympathy for refuseniks like Rob Bailey can only heighten . |
| 5 | It 's not yet at a very developed and sophisticated level for ideas like wind energy , solar energy . |
| 6 | Here , girl , cop hold of this thing , we do n't need a stretcher for types like this . ’ |
| 7 | Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it ! |
| 8 | So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for . |
| 9 | He said the issuing of IRA admissions of responsibility for atrocities like the Warrington and City of London bombs from the Southern capital was shaming Ireland throughout the world . |
| 10 | Bob needs money for things like cigarettes , stamps and batteries , and I take him cards to send to the children on their birthdays and at Christmas . |
| 11 | But Frankie did n't care ; he always had something hidden away in his tuckbox for occasions like this . |
| 12 | The government 's decision to scrap the ‘ listed events ’ provision , which gave the BBC and ITV the right to match the highest bid for events like Wimbledon or the FA cup final , will mean a scramble to obtain the rights . |
| 13 | The new frontier for firms like BP , Statoil , Amoco and Pennzoil lies not on land but under the Caspian Sea . |
| 14 | It was normally the practice for writers like Macpherson to stress that the movies had grown directly out of the ‘ dime ’ or ‘ yellow-back ’ novel . |
| 15 | If young people are encouraged to adopt critical attitudes of mind about topics like these , will the spectre of Clause 44 of the 1986 Act again rear its head ? |
| 16 | It is easy at this distance in time to explain the pattern away as an inevitable feature of the wider transition from one form of economy to another , but there can have been little pleasure for families like the Eldridges or Mepkins of Battle whose members appeared regularly in the poor-relief accounts over several generations . |
| 17 | Then I heard the growls of support coming from our own side for proposals like Family Credit and the ending of SERPS . |
| 18 | Screening for disorders in which the clinical course can not be altered is generally avoided : a programme of newborn screening for disorders like Duchenne muscular dystrophy could therefore create an ethical nightmare . |
| 19 | I only go for tendering of accounts like B T for example |
| 20 | The context is different , especially for an exporter of manufactures like Britain , but there 's a basic common question which arises at the root of the problems of erm technology choice in Africa , in Asia , Latin America and in a European country like Britain . |
| 21 | The problem is going to be the sheer weight of administration of schemes like this , and that 's going to make it very difficult for the small firm , because the solicitor sitting at his desk is his own manager , his own salesman and his own factory floor worker . |
| 22 | Co-ordinators were given an update on recently published crime figures and a general briefing with emphasis on the importance of locking outbuildings to prevent the theft of things like power tools , lawn mowers and fishing tackle . |
| 23 | He is not at all nostalgic , but he mourns the loss of friends like the poet , Jacques Prevert . |
| 24 | World-system theories did not originate in the study of phenomena like the modern UK economy . |
| 25 | In October the price of sugar dropped to its lowest level in 20 months owing to a fall in demand from Iraq and Kuwait and the readiness of countries like India to sell sugar to raise desperately needed cash to cover rising oil prices . |
| 26 | But for millions of people in the world 's poorest countries , who live in fear of diseases like measles and whooping cough it is quite literally true . |
| 27 | Perhaps even more revealing are the astonishing carvings which adorn many of the small Romanesque churches of the Saintonge , for whereas the facades of important churches , under the patronage of princes like the Duke of Aquitaine or the Count of Angoulême , may well be the work of internationally famous masters , these village churches make plain the strength of a purely local tradition of superb craftsmanship . |
| 28 | Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 . |
| 29 | In the light of experiments like the two we have just described , Flores d'Arcais and Schreuder ( 1983 ) propose a modification to the clausal hypothesis , which is that , after a clause has been presented , the continued presence of information about the syntactic structure of that clause in working memory will depend on whether such information is needed for further processing . |
| 30 | In the light of facts like these , if one were to judge the issue on purely practical grounds alone , sarvodaya would appear to be a more dignified and humane doctrine . |