Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we try to abstract , as far as possible , from the local value of the impressions which affect different parts of our skins , we seem to find nothing like a really qualitative difference in the sensations . ’ |
| 2 | You know I mean I 'll have to find something like a |
| 3 | Many a Harvard dealer has needed to haggle with one of the market-makers in the adjoining room , in order to obtain something like a fair deal for his client . |
| 4 | To provide anything like the coverage given by the LDOCE , a corpus of much greater than 5 million words is necessary [ Jelinek , 1985 ] . |
| 5 | Moreover , it is far from clear that the LDDC has managed to obtain anything like the best financial deals in its negotiations with developers : land appears to have been sold at substantially less than might have been achieved , and as the freeholder the LDDC has retained little control of , nor gained any benefit from , subsequent development . |
| 6 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 7 | The conventionalist system lacks the capacity to reach anything like the flexibility of pragmatism , because any relaxation would inevitably involve the defeat of publicly encouraged expectation . |
| 8 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 9 | Hanson ( 1980 ) , Koskela and Viren ( 1980 ) and Lawrence ( 1983 ) are all attempts to apply something like the Lucas ( 1973 ) test to different data sets . |
| 10 | The Texas Department of Corrections ( TDC ) has continued to build big , and presumably Howard could not even have begun to imagine something like the Ellis I Unit , of over 2,000 beds . |
| 11 | For practical purposes it is probably safe to assume something like a 50/50 split and this is probably putting inherited factors too high . |
| 12 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 13 | To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material . |
| 14 | So I have to go something like a five past seven train or something ? |
| 15 | But Richard 's polite attempt to straighten himself and to give something like a slight bow made the damage to his lung rather worse . |
| 16 | On the simple computer described above we would have to do something like the following : |
| 17 | With this system two main speakers were positioned as for conventional stereo , and there were two subsidiary rear speakers stationed to form something like a square . |
| 18 | THE REST The return to low-budget film-making by the director of Halloween , John Carpenter , fails to generate anything like the same tension . |
| 19 | It is not possible here to give anything like a complete view of what we can learn from coin designs , and the following discussion will only characterise some of the potential and the pitfalls of using them . |
| 20 | We need to adopt something like the German distinction between Wissenschaft — that is , knowledge or scholarship , which may cover all subjects including chemistry , history , literature , or physics — and Technik — the ability to make and use things , whether machine-tools , architectural drawings , or stage-scenery . |
| 21 | After the War on the Shore of Kiawah Island , they might offer to host something like a Bold Boast on the Gold Coast . |
| 22 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 23 | ‘ What intrigues me most of all is how you managed to get someone like the editor of the New York Times to agree to back up your cover story . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Above all , the British industrial revolution was a regional phenomenon ’ ( Pollard , 1981 ) ; but often pioneering regions , four declined soon after they had made their vital contribution ( Cornwall , Shropshire , North Wales and the Derbyshire uplands ) , while two more ( Tyneside and Clydeside ) had to get something like a second wind to survive as centres of expanding metal industries and shipbuilding . |
| 25 | I still found I had to keep the Contour and Treble rotaries backed completely off , and the Bass right up to get anything like a ‘ normal ’ lead guitar sound . |
| 26 | The programme described David 's condition and the sixty operations he had in order to have anything like a face — and there were still plenty to come . |
| 27 | The court pointed out that reasonable suspicion did not require the police ‘ to have anything like a prima facie case for conviction ’ . |
| 28 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 29 | Those small nations of roughly comparable size to Scotland , which are member states of the EC , apparently have little room for manoeuvre and could never hope to have anything like the power wielded by the UK . |
| 30 | The chief disadvantages for the collector are the vast amount of space needed to house anything like a representative collection , and its far from attractive appearance , except with bound runs . |