Example sentences of "in [pron] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the cost of revealing the whereabouts of the cave to one of the People I must take this specimen there — I must , so great was my urge , thundering in me like the breakers of an ocean . |
| 2 | In something like the Adagio of the Eighth Symphony we intuitively experience an overall stability , a kind of musical wholeness . |
| 3 | Re Yet in something like the Schoenberg Op. 31 Orchestral Variations you used the recording process in a quite radical way ? |
| 4 | In that case we should be back in something like the unsatisfactory position we were in before the introduction of comprehensive schools , when the least successful children were relegated to schools that were openly admitted to be inferior ; and it is likely that the ‘ good ’ schools would , many of them , choose to free themselves from their Local Authorities . |
| 5 | But the term could be extended , so that kangaroos might be said to represent deer in Australia because they live in something like the same way . |
| 6 | All this though was some way from any quantitative expression of conservation of ‘ energy ’ — a term first used in something like the modern scientific sense by Thomas Young at the beginning of the century . |
| 7 | Neo-evolutionism rejects this unilinear dogma , and argues that there are many possible paths from the traditional to the modern , though there is a strong supposition that the capitalist road via pluralist democracy resulting in something like the contemporary United States and Western Europe , is the best and most efficient of the alternatives . |
| 8 | I first went , I suppose in in something like the nineteen seventies , and I can remember in those days having some difficulty getting into the country . |
| 9 | that even in something like the choir it 's somebody that you should of struck up a , er a relationship you know , over several |
| 10 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Here 's the shopping street he walked along , and , lingering in it like the smell of coffee , the first impression of the whole city that he based on it . |
| 12 | I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made . |
| 13 | Yet , as recent work on political economy in the late eighteenth century has shown , it is difficult to establish Adam Smith , let alone Burke , as a ‘ free marketeer ’ in anything like the modern sense . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the job was beginning to carry its own very real status ; Benjamin James would be the first member of his branch of the family ever to have a ‘ career ’ in anything like the modern sense of the word . |
| 15 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 16 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
| 17 | If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso . |