Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means , too , that these communities have been disproportionately affected by social security changes relating to families , like the change in the benefit position of 16- and 17-year-olds ( Oppenheim , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Typically , field scientists spend two or three years studying why the range in eastern Montana is not like the range in western Montana , and explaining to Washington why it should be managed differently — only to be told by bureaucrats that all rangeland planning must be the same everywhere . |
| 3 | Like the artists in La Boheme , Aggie and Sprugg — Deverell 's two winos - spend a good deal of time play-acting , in an operative sort of way . |
| 4 | A head-complement construction , on the other hand , is typically not reducible syntactically to the head alone : the complement may be obligatory , like the cat in Arthur stroked the cat ; or , if it is omissible , it may be latent , like the direct object in John is watching . |
| 5 | The first change in directorship for 12 years is a new opportunity to explore the prospects for the survival and development of a ‘ critical culture ’ in Britain and to consider the role of an institution like the ICA in its development . |
| 6 | I sometimes wish I did n't think so much about what I do , and just pottered along doing it the way it 's always been done ( like the bloke in the next-door room does ! ) . |
| 7 | I know that the sages often give conflicting advice , that the shrub or bush that you are about to prune looks nothing like the diagram in your hand , and as for the picture on the seed packet — well , enough said , but you do learn from their experience and your own what will and wo n't do well in your particular spot and even , if it does n't sound too fanciful , for your own particular temperament . |
| 8 | Like the Tin-Man in The Wizard of Oz , rigid under the apple trees , she needed oil . |
| 9 | the , the activists who then can go out I , like the disciples in a sense erm to , to the , to the new membership . |
| 10 | In so far as the anchoress is seeking Christ lost in the soul , she is like the disciples in the boat on the sea of Galilee lost in the storm ( Matthew 13:44 ) who woke the sleeping Jesus to save them from destruction : But underlying the cry of the anchoress is the constant calling of God which alone enables her cry : " oure lord and all whilk wilen herken to hym ( 50.323a. – 122 ) . |
| 11 | Just like the M.I. in Hollywood , clinics and demos by well-known musicians are a feature of the school . |
| 12 | ‘ I could get a job and live by myself in a bed-sitting room , like the girls in stories in magazines . ’ |
| 13 | Allow about five folded pieces of blotting paper to one directory , spacing them equally so that the pages of the directory act like the newspaper in the press . |
| 14 | This has an AR of two and upwards , and is not at all like the Flexifoil in concept . |
| 15 | You know , like the cavalry in one of the old Westerns . ’ |
| 16 | ( The Scottish press is more like the American in this respect . ) |
| 17 | For reference , these are put into a media visual , which , at the planning stage , will look something like the schedules in Figures 10.1 and 10.2 . |
| 18 | He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower . |
| 19 | The middle years of the fourteenth century saw the change from mail armour to plate , while the coming century or so witnessed many improvements in design , so that arrows , bolts , and pikes were met with glancing surfaces which , like the changes in architecture intended to counter the effect of the cannon ball , caused the deflection of the missile away from its target . |
| 20 | The other mode depends on occasional small mutations , like the changes in the parameters of protozoa . |
| 21 | The railway linked up manufacturing areas with raw material sources and centres of distribution and consumption , providing a major stimulus to further growth in coalfields like the Ruhr in Germany , the Pas-de-Calais in France , and those in Central Spain , in the iron ore works of South Wales , and in the new industrial centres of the developing European economies , like the Ukraine in Russia and the upper Po valley in Italy . |
| 22 | However , like the Temple in the Book of Ezekiel , it was to be a vision only . |
| 23 | These markets would have attracted a range of itinerant craftsmen and merchants , much like the trader in whetstones already mentioned ( p. 44 ) . |
| 24 | Frieda Lawrence said of her husband : ‘ I must say he is like the English in the bulldog quality of hanging on . |
| 25 | Just like the English in Ireland . |
| 26 | In pieces , like the Hearthwares in his room . |
| 27 | An immersion heater works like the element in an electric kettle . |
| 28 | Such case as the defence were able to make depended , like the defence in some of the cases cited above , almost entirely on the defendant 's credibility if it was to have any prospect of success and therefore the misdirection was material . |
| 29 | The company expects the makers of electrolytic batteries ( like the ones in cars ) to be big customers for its new product . |
| 30 | They were open stairs like the ones in the house his Mum and Dad were buying . |