Example sentences of "[art] few [adj] [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never been able to speak Spanish before , apart from a few odd phrases like spaghetti bolognese and virtuosi di Roma ! |
| 2 | There are a few classic examples like Bergelin and Borg , and Pickard and Edberg . |
| 3 | Most of the factions in Los Angeles called themselves ‘ gangs ’ , although a few used names like ‘ the police , ’ or ‘ the sheriffs ’ . |
| 4 | All you could send to them were the printable characters , plus a few simple commands like ‘ carriage return ’ and ‘ line feed ’ . |
| 5 | The great majority of revolutionary populists resolutely rejected the deception and unprincipled adventurism of a few untypical deviants like Nechaev . |
| 6 | It shows that while the UK was in deep deficit in trade with the dollar area , in most years this was added to significantly by the deficit of the rest of the sterling area ( broadly speaking , the Dominions minus Canada , plus the colonies , plus a few other countries like Iraq ) . |
| 7 | Other products are bought on the commodity exchanges , like to a large extent tea cocoa and a few other things like Rowntrees buying cocoa from Ghana but now they seem to buy it anywhere that they can get it cheaply . |
| 8 | I have since found a few other resorts like Argentiere . |
| 9 | The menu mixes hearty steaks with chef 's sauces , fish , a few Continental classics like boeuf bourguignon and chicken kiev , with a page of curries including vegetarian ones made with Quorn . |
| 10 | Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize . |
| 11 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 12 | Until such a time peasants in a country like France were really only interested in a few restricted matters like land , taxes , and the threat of military service . |
| 13 | Even some of the old favourites have had a few imaginative additions like Vegetarian Lasagne with added carrot , apple and fennel . |
| 14 | In the side-streets running down towards the river theatregoers are looking for parking-spaces , but on the pavements there 's no one but a few belated bureaucrats like myself , heading for trains and Tubes . |
| 15 | My Defence Manual , which contains things like maps of the island with the caches marked , likely attack routes , a summary of tactics , a list of weapons I have or might make , includes within this last category quite a few unpleasant things like trip-wires and snares set a body-length away from a concealed broken bottle sticking up in the grass , electrically detonated mines made from pipe-bombs and small nails , all buried in the sand , and a few interesting , if unlikely , secret weapons , like frisbees with razors embedded in the edge . |
| 16 | " There are quite a few American names like that . |
| 17 | This is a standard way to implement word processing : the ‘ pool ’ breaks secretarial work down into a few routine activities like typing , making travel reservations and answering the phone . |
| 18 | But you appear not to have noticed a few glaring facts like that women in general do n't rape men , or beat them up , or design weapons or make the laws and enforce them or hold enough jobs of influence and authority to make an iota of difference to the way this bloody patriarchal shit-heap is run . ’ |