Example sentences of "like the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | the , the activists who then can go out I , like the disciples in a sense erm to , to the , to the new membership . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I could get a job and live by myself in a bed-sitting room , like the girls in stories in magazines . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The other mode depends on occasional small mutations , like the changes in the parameters of protozoa . |
| 8 | In pieces , like the Hearthwares in his room . |
| 9 | The company expects the makers of electrolytic batteries ( like the ones in cars ) to be big customers for its new product . |
| 10 | They were open stairs like the ones in the house his Mum and Dad were buying . |
| 11 | They had been in the shape of double diamonds exactly like the ones in the woodland ride ! |
| 12 | Their aim is to teach people common-sense techniques of job application and interview performance like the ones in this book . |
| 13 | He said : are you like the ones in the old Store ? ’ |
| 14 | There wo n't be sobering-up stations like the ones in Munich . |
| 15 | There were fresh bullet scars on the walls , like the ones in Daine 's penthouse . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean , like the ones in the cliff face , opposite the belvedere ? ’ |
| 17 | Like the ones in the church in the town . |
| 18 | And among bins and rubbish like the ones in front of me now he stopped crawling , and died , and lay unnoticed . |
| 19 | His ( 1975 ) solution is to require that the two opposed elements have the same extension.4 However , this solution is too strong for phrasal appositions like the ones in [ 12 ] . |
| 20 | But then with services houses , very often , like the ones in York in Manor Drive , they 're in two halves . |
| 21 | Like the poppies in Flanders it was red as blood . |
| 22 | It was not at all like the others in the room , like all the ones in the other room . |
| 23 | This sub.category like the others in this class includes species of ‘ doing something about the phenomenon besides merely perceiving it ’ . |
| 24 | Like the others in this review , you get both the DOS and Windows versions in the same box . |
| 25 | But the times in which Cortés lived , like the times in which Jesus lived , are documented . |
| 26 | Like the oceans in general , healthy reefs seem remarkably free of plant life . |
| 27 | In his joy at being in love , all he saw was now sparkling like the illuminations in a missal . |
| 28 | These will then develop through the usual plant successions into areas of organic sediment rather like the backswamps in the interior of the delta . |
| 29 | Like the rip-offs in rubbish collection and fish transport , these charges are under investigation . |
| 30 | Like the checks in Hofmann 's pianos , it will dissipate some of the energy of the returning hammer but it will never completely exclude the possibility of the hammer bouncing . |