Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | September is a good time to see the lovely heathers on the moor and to see birds like meadow pipit and stonechat . |
| 2 | But spelling can not solely rely on this route : to be able to spell words like yacht or choir we must have access to specific lexical information about how each word is spelled . |
| 3 | It is not difficult to derive more information from the basic recorded information by combining two or more parameters , and thus to establish things like rate of climb or descent and rate of change of airspeed . |
| 4 | For example , we want to be able to take knowledge gained from studying the free recall of nonsense syllables and make predictions about our ability to remember things like telephone numbers , or the names of people we have just been introduced to at parties . |
| 5 | It made no pretence of catering to faddish tastes like vegetarianism or high fibre diets . |
| 6 | Almost certainly before Rachel an ancient goddess shed tears there bewailing her lover and , as Anat did for Ba'al , she ‘ continued sating herself with weeping , To drink tears like wine ’ . |
| 7 | Another sign of attachment is the revival of the art of cameo-cutting , beginning with the commissions bestowed by popes , prelates and connoisseurs at the time of the Renaissance , persisting through the period of bourgeois dominance and continuing into the present age of enfranchisement even to the point at which resort has had to be made to substitute materials like shell or paste to satisfy a greatly enlarged market . |
| 8 | Farm workers are usually the last to receive the protection of safety legislation , for example , or to receive benefits like sickness pay , pension schemes , paid holidays , a five-day week or even a written contract of employment and itemized pay packets . |
| 9 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 10 | They are by no means confined to obscure areas like tunnel digging , aircraft wiring and food enhancing . |
| 11 | A sample survey carried out for the NCC in 1978 showed that most country-dwellers go to town or out-of-town shopping centres to buy things like furniture or clothes . |
| 12 | European Community telecommunications ministers yesterday agreed the legislation intended to ensure that voice telephone services are provided in an open and efficient way across the Community , Reuter reports from Brussels : the legislation , which must be reviewed by the European Parliament before it becomes final , would improve access of users to public telephone networks and impose rules or objectives in areas such as prices , contracts and billing ; it would establish the principle that prices are based on cost , rather than cross-subsidy — in many countries , long distance calls subsidise local calls ; France won agreement on changes that would enable tariffs to be adjusted to ensure ‘ cohesion ’ within a state — in order to cover things like service to remote areas ; the ministers are also due this week to debate the controversial plans to liberalise the telecommunications market by 1998 . |
| 13 | To describe a castle they need to learn to use words like moat , turrets , battlements , keep , arrow slits , gatehouse , drawbridge , portcullis , etc . |
| 14 | The children , again , have collected sheep dung for liquid tomato feed , and nettles and comfrey , essentially as fertiliser of course ( with the new pesticide lays , it is ironically illegal to use sprays like rhubarb or nettles or comfrey , that have not Ministry clearance ) . |
| 15 | But I must say I 'm very encouraged to see the numbers of women who are applying to do subjects like chemistry and physics is going up and certainly we would applaud that sort of activity . |
| 16 | It 's a bit more difficult for me now , because they 've got to do things like figure-work , which they 're not going to be able to cope with . |
| 17 | This squeezed individual planned targets even more and came to be used to finance items like pay or local authority overspend . |
| 18 | It appals me that anybody in government can considerate it appropriate to use terms like mum 's army , with the connotations that that has with Captain Mainwaring and his bimbling set of idiots . |
| 19 | Continue to sow salads like lettuce , radish and spring onion for cropping in late summer . |
| 20 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 21 | And I think that analysis allowed me , on personal terms , eventually to understand things like incest , like you were saying Elizabeth , sexual violence and things like that , that I think had really weakened me as a person . |
| 22 | It remains to be seen if Free State will be able to keep stars like fullback Andre Joubert and centre Pieter Muller . |
| 23 | So this is er this is an interes this is er a critical thing to remember if you 're tempted to believe slogans like survival of the fittest . |
| 24 | Somewhere there must be an inheritor of more promise , a hint before sunrise of a sun fit to disperse doubts like morning mists , and dazzle out of our vision both king and empress , with all the confusion , chaos and waste they have visited upon this land . |
| 25 | Would you still have to mention things like eye contact and gesture , and that ? |
| 26 | I had reached the point of distinguishing between the use of words like ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ to say how we feel , and their use to describe things like fire and snow . |
| 27 | Organisers would like local people to hold events like coffee mornings and jumble sales on behalf of the appeal . |
| 28 | A smoother paper is a ‘ must ’ and the crayons , too , should be used smoothly unless you want your faces to have complexions like sandpaper ! |
| 29 | Just to get things like slide shows or erm videos and things , you know , that 's how we 're gon na |
| 30 | organizing the raffles just to get things like slide shows organized videos organized just a little bit of help . |