Example sentences of "[is] not like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 2 | Town soil is not like country soil , and the smaller the area the worse it is . |
| 3 | The real Sid , though , is not like that . |
| 4 | ‘ He is not like a poet , ’ Wilson said , sniffing , ‘ and I have lived with two of them . ’ |
| 5 | But the world is not like that . |
| 6 | The philosophical position I have just outlined is not like a scientific theory : it can not be tested experimentally . |
| 7 | Nicky 's conversion to Christianity shows that we do n't necessarily need to be clever and learned to find God — religion is not like finding out about astronomy or physics . |
| 8 | Tapwater is not like that . |
| 9 | In his article ‘ Sovereignty and interdependence : Britain 's place in the world ’ , he defines sovereignty as ‘ a nation 's practical capacity to maximise its influence in the world ’ and uses the metaphor of a ‘ bundle of sticks ’ , some of which are exchanged for others , to illustrate that ‘ sovereignty is not like virginity , something you either have or do not have . ’ |
| 10 | The God believed in by Jews , Hindus and Christians , is not like the pagan God , Atlas , who was supposed to be underneath the world propping it up on his shoulders . |
| 11 | Going into the light is not like going into the street . |
| 12 | A glance at the awful title suggested the answer ‘ nothing ’ but I soon found that this book is not like all the others . |
| 13 | It is not like glucose , which has a controlled concentration between well-defined limits , above or below which the effects of hypo- or hyperglycaemia are readily apparent , as all diabetics know . |
| 14 | It is not like being a priest . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not like a Dynasty or Dallas thing . |
| 16 | HC is not like other illnesses . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not like buying a three-piece suite . |
| 18 | It is not like any other business . |
| 19 | This is not like a planning appeal because only those who are invited can actually participate , although in practice anyone with anything substantial to say , for or against any aspect of the plan , is likely to be invited . |
| 20 | ‘ But life is not like that . |
| 21 | Keeping a pet is not like owning a video , though , a pet is not just something that is there for your entertainment , it is something that you have to care for . |
| 22 | Since he does not recognize what he is doing , he blames God rather than his faulty picture , little realizing that God is not like that at all . |
| 23 | God is not like that . |
| 24 | Life is not like a dream metaphor ; it is a dream metaphor ! |
| 25 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister is not like that . |
| 27 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 28 | You see , a cradle is not like anything else — there is no fooling with it … ’ . |
| 29 | Being brought before a disciplinary panel is not like appearing in a public criminal court . |
| 30 | It is not like Roxburgh , a strong fortress in good order … ’ |