Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] likes [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1956 Olympics at the MCG were opened by a president of MCC , Prince Philip , and were dominated by the likes of Kuts , Cuthbert , Devitt and Fraser . |
| 2 | Their numbers have increased dramatically in recent years , with newcomers such as Labuan ( Malaysia ) , Malta and Mauritius trying to capture a slice of the business traditionally dominated by the likes of Bermuda and Jersey . |
| 3 | The ball winning was done by the likes of Batts . |
| 4 | What Adebayo had discovered was a brutally convincing British equivalent of the Seventies American ghetto thrillers written by the likes of Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines . |
| 5 | Collected by the likes of Ingrid Bergman , Syrie Maugham , Francoise Sagan and Brigitte Bardot , her work was rediscovered in the late 1980s resulting in exhibitions and collaboration with fashion houses . |
| 6 | The Wallabies coaching clinic was a great success and a tribute to the efforts made by the likes of Dan Dan Qeqe . |
| 7 | NetLS is a vendor-neutral , client-server tool that manages software access based on systems , users , time or usage , and was chosen by the Open Software Foundation for the Distributed Management Environment and also has been adopted by the likes of IBM Corp . |
| 8 | Smith left the Royal College of Art in 1958 , hyped by the likes of doyenne Ernestine Carter of the Sunday Times and the backing of the influential Francoise Garigues . |
| 9 | In the 1940s and 1950s a new kind of fiction began to be cultivated by the likes of Borges , Onetti , Sábato , Asturias , Carpentier , Rulfo , Arguedas and Roa Bastos . |
| 10 | In addition , Protek has also signed a UK marketing agreement with Austin , Texas-based Tivoli Systems Inc to supply and support the object-oriented Tivoli Management Framework software , a key component of OSF 's Distributed Management environment , also being used by the likes of Unix System Labs and SunSoft Inc . |
| 11 | His clothes , originally worn by Lauren Bacall , Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe , were given a great boost recently when worn by the likes of Madonna and Deee-Lite . |
| 12 | Worn by the likes of Seal , Naomi Campbell and Lenny Kravitz , it uses precious stones , silver and gold in a tasteful way . |
| 13 | TW3 , staffed by the likes of David Frost , William Rushton , Bernard Levin ( who in later years became a critic of ‘ permissiveness ’ ) , and a future bête-noir of Mrs Whitehouse , John Mortimer , was , in its short history , massively popular and controversial . |
| 14 | There are also recipes contributed by the likes of Claudia Roden , Sri Owen and Joyce Molyneux , but even the most exotic of these — like an intriguing banana pudding from Indonesia — seem quite achievable . |
| 15 | As the father of young children myself , I often wonder at the adult-oriented visual images , themes and preoccupations which seem to dominate so much of our children 's publishing , and the failure to recognise that today 's generations of youngsters have grown up conditioned by the immediate access and instant gratification provided by the likes of television and computer games . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's off sulking most likely , ’ said Harbour , and started to tell her his reasons for believing O'Hara 's performance that evening had been the equal of any of the great Shakespearian roles as portrayed by the likes of Ralphie or Larry . |
| 17 | The second disc finds him in the company of an enlarged band , basically his regular four piece augmented by the likes of keyboardist Chuck Leavell , Phil Palmer on guitar , percussionist Ray Cooper and singers Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon , running through pieces like ‘ Wonderful Tonight ’ which at nine minutesplus is somewhat overextended . |
| 18 | Most important , however , is the integration of StreetTalk III , recognised as a far more advanced system than the basic directory services now been introduced by the likes of Novell Inc . |
| 19 | Improved NFS performance also lies at the heart of the company 's desire to recapture ground in the market for heavily networked NFS systems and software which has been all but hi-jacked by the likes of Auspex Systems Inc , Legato Systems Inc , Interphase Corp and Ceram Inc . |
| 20 | She was ably assisted by the likes of Mary Lou Crowley , Siobhan Murphy , Karen Finn and Irene O'Keeffe , to name but a few . |
| 21 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 22 | Very quickly , by the early 1950s , the idea that a true ‘ Welfare State ’ had been created and that it offered an effective means of solving social inequalities was being criticised by the likes of Richard Titmuss . |
| 23 | The current I to V system has existed since 1961 when the first grade Vs were climbed by the likes of Patey , Marshall and Smith . |
| 24 | However he must understand the indignity Leeds fans suffered during eight seasons being beaten by the likes of Shrewsbury and even ( gulp ) Bradford City . |
| 25 | In 1987 , the first Special Olympics record featured Christmas songs recorded by the likes of Madonna and U2 . |
| 26 | Where the criticism is uttered on an unprivileged occasion by the Prime Minister , the risk would be worth taking , but not when it is uttered by the likes of General Amin . |
| 27 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 28 | Gedge was , and still is , the perfect antidote to the bombast favoured by the likes of Bono and Jim Kerr . |
| 29 | But unlike the P series , which was made entirely of metal , it makes greater use of plastic , a trend pioneered by the likes of IBM and Hewlett-Packard . |
| 30 | NOW WITHOUT Hugh Cornwell , the withered-looking Stranglers are not the successful eccentrics they once were , having traded in commercial respectability for the kind of cultish irrelevance pioneered by the likes of Gary Numan . |