Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there 's an organization in Radford who can help out with both of these things they 're called A T O Training and they can tell you all you need to know about things like application forms and interview techniques as well as advice about further education and wan t what to do if you want to start your own business . |
| 2 | You can charter a Redwing , arrive , be ferried to the boat and back again , and you do n't have to worry about things like painting , varnishing and antifouling . |
| 3 | We believe that farmers should take an increased interest now in these matters because the erm general public are concerned about the rising instance of pollution and I think that farmers owe it to the remainder of the community to come to places like Muck '89 and see for themselves exactly what new machinery is available to combat pollution . |
| 4 | I smiled and went on down the train , getting the feel of it now , understanding the way it was put together , beginning to wonder about things like electricity , water supply and sewage . |
| 5 | Though a little patchy , there is more than enough to keep fans happy and several killer cuts that show Nirvana already distilling the heady brew of metal , punk and pop which was to lead to Smells Like Teen Spirit — the track critics have called the best rock song ever . |
| 6 | He contends that economic prosperity has given the voters the opportunity to choose on issues like abortion and the environment . |
| 7 | " You have to look at things like lighting , the height , colour and texture of the various plants or furnishings , and how you want to use the area — all the practical aspects of it . |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't thought about it , ’ she lied , shielding her eyes with one hand as she tilted her head back to look at clouds like cotton wool balls racing overhead . |
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| 10 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 11 | The pharmacist will advise which medicines are safe to take and how to cope with problems like heartburn . |
| 12 | because it 's a lot easier for a government to say if you stop smoking it 'll be alright , than to deal with things like poverty . |
| 13 | You can also have geographical factors again , as we said last week , to do with things like scenery and obviously geographical factors are very important if we consider skiing er with the classification of the ski slopes between difficult and suit beginners . |
| 14 | Then he argued against a scheme which would allow him to vote on matters like health , education , and local government in Wessex , but not in his own constituency of West Lothian . |
| 15 | Yeah well I 'm , I 'm gon na try and get the final year lecture for Tuesday sorted actually on Saturday and erm it 's usually , it 's usually Guy but I think I 'm doing it this week , yeah , because I 've got quite a few to do on things like racist in the media and Guy 's mate Dennis has just written a book and he 's given me a manuscript of it and it 's about how racist psychology is which is |
| 16 | Another important point is that the less time you have in which to do something , the more it costs because you start to run into things like overtime and special delivery payments , rush jobs and so on . |
| 17 | ‘ Us secret agents have got to ride above things like jet lag , you know . ’ |
| 18 | At the moment , sad to say that physical vertical is the most effective means of slowing people down and and narrowings and visual erm signs and that kind of thing , road markings , do not have the same effect er but we are working on that and hopefully in our next batch of schemes we will start to experiment with things like speed cushions and what have you which , which have a lesser effect on , on erm on both minibuses and buses . |
| 19 | It was , after all , only if this was done that there would be any wealth to distribute to services like health . |
| 20 | But at least when we go to yeah , you get to go to places like ice skating . |