Example sentences of "like that [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAVE not seen girls crying and screaming like that since the days of the Beatles . |
| 2 | The fellows went like that off the corners — never asked to move . |
| 3 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 4 | Surveys showed that its support , like that for the Liberals , was diffuse but shallow and lacked distinctive issue bases or social constituencies , apart from a following in the well-educated professional groups . |
| 5 | No I do n't want you to do anything like that to the flowers at all . |
| 6 | Onlookers paying £40 a head might have disagreed , for though the clothes were gorgeous and the models undeniably pretty , the atmosphere was more like that of a girls ' boarding school than an haute couture show . |
| 7 | Once again , the community , like that of the termites , is bound together by a system of chemical messages , the pheromones , perpetually circulating within the hive , which inform all the inhabitants of the state of the population and of the absence or presence of the queen . |
| 8 | So , while the oil crisis caused major difficulties for the system as a whole , its impact — like that of the commodities boom and the dollar crisis — was uneven . |
| 9 | The industrial tribunals represent the tribunals whose practice and procedure is most like that of the courts . |
| 10 | The roll , like that of the kettledrums , is indicated by the sign tr . |
| 11 | The result was a consent provision like that of the Theatres Act 1968 , whereby no proceedings could be instituted except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions ( the DPP ) . |
| 12 | By the early 1830s the very ‘ glut ’ of petitions so held up the normal business of the day that , although an exceptional petition like that of the ladies could make an impression , the House of Commons acted to refer petitions to a committee and deny immediate speech on them on the floor of the House . |
| 13 | The way of life of the northern Samoeds of western Siberian now known as Nenets and Enets , was , like that of the Tungus , centred upon reindeer herding . |
| 14 | So the world of science moved along its intellectual railway tracks , and its further progress seemed , like that of the railways themselves , to offer the prospect of the laying-down of more tracks of the same kind through new territory . |
| 15 | The authority of the verderers , like that of the coroners , had ended with the previous reign , so the king sent out orders to the sheriffs to make arrangements for the election of ‘ as many verderers as there ought to be and used to be ’ in nineteen forests south of Trent , and in Sherwood Forest north of it , ‘ as no verderer is as yet elected therein by command of the King , |
| 16 | The echinoderm skeleton is not a truly external one , like that of the molluscs , for it is surrounded on the outside by a thin skin of living tissue . |
| 17 | Crabs and lobsters have the thickest exoskeleton of all the group — one like that of the trilobites reinforced with calcium carbonate — and the fossil record of this important group ( only a small part of the whole class however ) is much better . |
| 18 | The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians . |
| 19 | A sober and numbing Inside Story ( BBC 1 ) , ‘ The Forgotten Holocaust ’ related how the gypsy population of Europe , like that of the Jews , was wiped out by the Nazis . |
| 20 | Yet their real faith — like that of the Christians — was towards their own clan , their villages , their leaders . |
| 21 | 1.30AM Caught up in the lawlessness , I fly through red lights and police cordons , feeling a sort of empowering exhilaration like that of the rioters . |
| 22 | Clearly positivists , and , as we shall see , Marxists as well , will feel unhappy about any approach to literature which , like that of the Formalists and the Prague School , concentrates on the analysis of a text 's structure rather than its genesis , and on the explanation of literary facts within a predominantly literary framework of reference . |
| 23 | No respondent generalised on a scale anything like that of the authors cited above . |
| 24 | Gloria met men like that at the airmen 's social club . |
| 25 | The look on their faces is like that on the faces of parents at Christmas time , when they know what the presents are and you do n't . |
| 26 | But perhaps it may regretfully be time to demolish our bothies — their unique charm and tradition destroyed by the greedy — another casualty like that on the consciences of the cairnbuilding , memorial erecting , road bulldozing and ‘ 100 best walks ’ brigade . |
| 27 | When we went down the south of France we saw lizards like that on the walls . |
| 28 | It would have been no trouble to him to write the exchange in modern English : ‘ It 's always like that with the things men start off on … |
| 29 | It was n't like that with the girls at the office , all heady scent and pouting , glossy lips . |
| 30 | I determined to keep the Polaroid with the War Bag in future ; for low-risk punitive expeditions like that against the rabbits it would more than repay the extra weight and the amount of time consumed using it . |