The phrase "as instruments like" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing or referring to specific tools or devices within a particular context.
Example: "Musicians often rely on various instruments like the piano, guitar, and violin to create beautiful melodies."
Alternatives: "such as instruments" or "for example, tools like".
The instructors give half-an-hour lessons for $25 and specialize in all classical instruments as well as Persian instruments like the santur.
Band instruments include woodwinds like flute, clarinet, and saxophone, as well as brass instruments like trumpet, trombone, french horn, and tuba.
It would be of great value if IRT-methods could be used for preliminary evaluations of assessment instruments in small samples, for example in the development process of a new instrument (like AS-18) or when an instrument is planned to be used in a new setting (like PHQ9).
Nearby, Ms. Négron, above right, will have an array of toy percussion, as well as small ethnic instruments like wood blocks, shekeres (West African rattles), agogos (African cowbells) and güiros (scrapers used in Latin music).
But CocoRosie's sound — the effects they deploy include windup toys and a kitten's mewling, as well as more conventional instruments like a snake charmer's flute, an out-of-tune ukulele or a beat box — is a little freakier, even, than that of most of their colleagues.
But it is critical that the government not raise them from this point on and that it allow the banks to increase their capital from their day-to-day business operations as well as by using instruments like long-term senior debt securities (which mature after 10 years) that have proved reliable over the years.
These include public policy initiatives that have implications for trade and investment, as well as direct trade instruments like subsidies and tariffs.
It's hard to believe that these implements of modern medicine will some day appear as quaint — and arguably as effective — as instruments of yore, like the "artificial leech" pictured here.
— Hendrik Hertzberg, "The Fifth War" (November 30, 2009) If Pakistani generals do not ultimately conclude that it is in their interest to abandon the Taliban and like groups as instruments of statecraft and national defense, then the risk-taking and fortitude on display in Obama's decision this week may be defeated.
If Pakistani generals do not ultimately conclude that it is in their interest to abandon the Taliban and like groups as instruments of statecraft and national defense, then the risk-taking and fortitude on display in Obama's decision this week may be defeated.
