Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this view , there would be an entry for a base form like sing , but not for the present participle singing , or the 3rd person singular present sings . |
| 2 | For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him . |
| 3 | This , combined with a level of non-taxable income would generate a budget constraint like 123 in Fig. 12–2(a) . |
| 4 | So you could , you could create a crude form of map on the spreadsheet , particularly on a text spreadsheet like this . |
| 5 | When we toured with the Inspiral Carpets — which was good for us to do at that point — we 'd only done 20 gigs as a band , and were n't experienced in the ‘ problems ’ of a support act like monitors being mysteriously unplugged during the performance , and an ever-shrinking stage , but we still did the business ! |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't like to think a kind bloke like you can be 'ard-'earted , makin' me stay here all alone and with a daft book like this . |
| 7 | On behalf of the Kirkcaldy Women Writers ' Group , I should like to express my amazement that a university town like Stirling is soon to axe the now well-established post of writer in residence . |
| 8 | After the exam he will study at the building academy to become a building engineer like his father . |
| 9 | A linear cell will give a response profile like that of the middle curve in Figure 4.3 . |
| 10 | A good idea to have a toy room like that . |
| 11 | This might make a good science fiction story — The White Cloud , it could be called — but for our purposes a computer model like the monkey/Shakespeare model is easier to grasp . |
| 12 | What possessed you to ask a screwball question like that ? ’ |
| 13 | Even America , where the squeeze on banks is tightest , is still a long way from a banking collapse like that of the 1930s . |
| 14 | His platform photographs show him sometimes in a Blackshirt uniform like an army battledress , sometimes in a black suit buttoned tightly across his broad chest and a high-necked pullover , microphone clutched in his right hand , and left pushed into his jacket pocket . |
| 15 | Er , the first , the most straightforward way is to name the feature , if you want to briefly describe it if it 's appropriate , and I mean briefly , then use a link phrase like what this means to you and come out with a benefits statement , something that the client can relate to , and the final piece in the jigsaw is to ask the client how he feels about it . |
| 16 | If your material consists of pure text ; a book or report , for example , then it is quite likely that you 'll be better off with a high-powered word processor such as Word 3 , MacAuthor or even a typesetting system like JustText , TeXtures or Page One . |
| 17 | You should also try using a hair serum like L'Oréal 's new Rayonnance Ends Repair , 25ml , £4.49 . |
| 18 | A silver dish like a holy water font was fastened to the seat in front of me . |
| 19 | He said no you 're on a fishing boat like everybody else . |
| 20 | Apparently Hank 's divorce had come through sooner than expected , the deed was done one Saturday afternoon in the local Registrar 's Office , and she came back to Bourn wearing a wedding ring like a brass curtain ring ( Mary 's words ) , to await her discharge from the Waaf . |
| 21 | It was a sandwich bar like the one he had worked in . |
| 22 | A department store like Harrods , which sells more expensive products , would be inappropriate in an area where 75% of people are out of work , just as a cut-price ‘ saver ’ store would not really fit in Knightsbridge . |
| 23 | The wings became a blur and Twoflower was jerked back as the dragon veered and sped off down a side corridor like a gnat-crazed swallow . |
| 24 | David , 27 , has been at Portman Road since 1988 but falls upon a North-East emissary like fond father upon prodigal son . |
| 25 | The study of metalwork from an archaeological site , whether a burial site like Sutton Hoo or a major settlement like York , which has a whole range of artefacts and materials , provides an opportunity to build a picture of the place of technology and metals in the context of the economic prosperity and social hierarchy of the society . |
| 26 | They said it was out of date and that I should get a Parrot jacket like the one Adam Faith wears on telly . |
| 27 | He took the view that mass searches were fine for discovering the hidden body of a murdered child , or even a murder weapon like a knife , gun or bludgeon . |
| 28 | While they walked she explained to him that no other boy in the whole of England could even hope to own a bomber jacket like his . |
| 29 | Intuitively , it would seem desirable that whatever account we give for the role of an expression like in other words in a phrasal apposition like [ 10 ] we give the same account for its role in a reformulation involving complete sentences , for example [ 9 ] . |
| 30 | But it is theoretically possible to build a special machine — a protein molecule like the rest of the cellular machines — that runs off RNA copies from other RNA copies . |