Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun pl] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and you know bedroom say things like cunt cos your mum is n't very |
| 2 | If we 're just talking about the niceties of the way these things are laid out , previous set of procedures say things like page one-o-two , page one-o-three etc , and I think that is probably good practice if you can look at a page number and so you know exactly how many pages to expect so , we can probably do that when we re-issue these procedures as well . |
| 3 | Theists who explore notions like existence in order to express the presence of a transcendent God presume this inherent incompleteness in reality . |
| 4 | This produces the heavy inflexible armour of the beetles , and mouthparts sharp and tough enough to gnaw through timber and even cut metals like copper and silver . |
| 5 | One of the purposes of capital gains taxes is to prevent individuals from avoiding tax by converting their income into a capital gain : individual choices could be distorted and people might , for example , seek assets like oil paintings as opposed to bonds . |
| 6 | We read qualities like sincerity , anger , sexuality and warmth into performers because of the way they organize the signs of their personality . |
| 7 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 8 | and I mean things like disrepair , erm inadequate heating , erm noise from other tenants , erm |
| 9 | A good packing routine for backpackers is to pack the sleeping bag and spare clothes in the bottom of the sack , then pack things like food and pans , padded by some of your clothing , with your spare pullover near the top . |
| 10 | If it enhances our security we feel things like joy and peace . |
| 11 | If it threatens our security we feel things like fear or anger . |
| 12 | When people talk about quarks they use words like colour and charm and strangeness and other things . |
| 13 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 14 | I mean I use things like Money Management , and they 're quite useful , erm but er you do n't need to erm er spend a lot of time looking round . |
| 15 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 16 | Mr Crick went on , ‘ But I think bulls like music better than cows . |
| 17 | So do dogs like sugar ? |
| 18 | Fat in round globules like pebbles , hair-roots like grass , capillary loops and sweat glands like worm tunnels . |
| 19 | I leave things like aftershave to my sons , who tend to drink it . |
| 20 | The more expensive systems offer facilities like editing and computerised caption generation . |
| 21 | Contain ingredients like keratin , panthenol and vitamins B and E which prevent lashes becoming brittle and dry . |
| 22 | Sequent says it 'll add the user-level threads but wo n't touch desktop features which require things like VGA monitor drivers . |
| 23 | Even lower on the scale of things , come programs like Newsroom Pro and Fontasy . |
| 24 | He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased . |
| 25 | That is why tax authorities treat IRPs like debt . |
| 26 | They have labels like wine bottles . |
| 27 | ‘ If you are stronger you can kick the ball harder and if you have muscles like iron your opponent will come off second best . |
| 28 | Normally I have things like chicken legs . ’ |
| 29 | You have things like heredity , marriages , divorces , erm some way of life which has to do with Islamic doctrine that you do and some dispute happens , you take it to the Islamic courts and they have religious judges who take it in that context and they go according to the laws of Islam . |
| 30 | So far , SAG has begun development on definition access control and authentication ; networking extensions ; code types for SQL data types and definitions for SQL objects , which include things like database schemas and tables . |