Example sentences of "like [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a lot to like about the Inspiral Carpets . |
| 2 | They have not chosen the new family and they may not feel love or even liking for the new partner . |
| 3 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 4 | So then I saw Mrs Irwin on Tuesday when I was in and she came up with all sorts of things that she would like for the new development . |
| 5 | A professional decorator told me years ago that when carrying out domestic painting , he always asked the lady of the house the shade she would like for the finished coat . |
| 6 | The salmon sheets Chair , we have shown our estimates of what ideally we would like for the continuing introduction of the Children Act and its requirements , the Criminal Justice Act , and the Warner Reports , but we do recognize , and I think this Committee recognizes , the difficult financial position the County Council finds itself in , and therefore the intention is to meet those unavoidable requirements from within the base budget , and there are no bids in these papers for funding towards those . |
| 7 | The advice they gave was not always to the sovereign 's liking as the famous conflicts between James I and Chief Justice Coke showed . |
| 8 | Anyone who enjoys this repertoire is likely to find this an attractive disc — not perhaps , as gemütlich as one would like in the Viennese numbers , but certainly possessing a certain straightforward charm of its own , even if at only 50 minutes it 's somewhat underfilled . |
| 9 | When harmonizing a piece we must decide what kind of horizontal spread we would like in the harmonic atmosphere . |
| 10 | For just as the latter are then not receiving as much employment as they would normally like at the prevailing real wage rate , so the former are not providing as much as they would normally like . |
| 11 | He banged down the rucksack and the basket he had been carrying and looked without liking at the unencumbered Beuno . |
| 12 | Once at work , what was life like for the young apprentice ? |
| 13 | of course it is , apparently say what they like about the Green Party but at least that 's one thing they 're doing something |
| 14 | The only good thing I like about the fourth year , you 're doing the subjects you want to do but apart from that |
| 15 | ‘ What I like about the three guys is that they actually care about that . |
| 16 | Say what you like about the first-past-the-post system , but it does let you know who has actually won each seat . |
| 17 | They 've not in the past shown themselves to be very honest erm nor very keen on going into their own archives , and I think it 's , actually takes people like me , who live on the border-lines if you like of the two cultures , to go in and discover erm sometimes embarrassing documents , embarrassing information , to confront them with it , in their own language , so that they have to take stock . |
| 18 | And I think the the local touch if you like of the principal beat officer , er shows itself on occasions like that . |
| 19 | What of course you 're saying here , it comes out here in 's letter , er , the structure , because er you said earlier that you realize now that we 're looking , we 're filling in the , in the gaps if you like of the local organizations . |
| 20 | If you like underneath the lower one . |
| 21 | Like with the flared pants . |
| 22 | Like with the previous meeting to discuss the self-appraisal , the report was considered page by page , but at the end the chairperson asked the head to make some recommendations . |
| 23 | Like with the previous meeting , the accountability aspect of the appraisal seemed to be underplayed and the governors considered the appraisal from the perspective of trying to bring about improvements in the school , and to make a special case to the authority to facilitate improvement by making available additional resources . |
| 24 | What is Berlin like in the late 1980's ? |
| 25 | When I wrote my novel Hitler Needs You ( we were the people Hitler needed most ) it was picked up for review by Elizabeth Thomas , literary editor of Tribune , as being the one book for her which showed what England was really like in the thirties . |
| 26 | Now as regards the actual well perhaps I should add to that , that there are two principles if you like in the theological field which govern the practice of the church . |
| 27 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 28 | And just like in the bad old days , it was coincidence rather than cleverness that saved the Doctor . |
| 29 | The spectre of the homosexual as Bogeyman too ( just like in the 1950s ) returns with the moral panic over the disease AIDS and the sensational press coverage of the Cyprus ‘ Spy ’ trial . |
| 30 | Like in the local pub ! |