Example sentences of "[am/are] not like " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am not like that . |
| 2 | I am able to examine concepts , she thought , to test values , for I have thought things out , I am not like my sister who bakes and cleans and shops and irons , and goes from day to day , never realising what her mind might discover , content to accept what has always been told her , without a doubt . |
| 3 | If some of you have had bad experiences with other ‘ Amway people ’ let me promise that I am not like that ! |
| 4 | I am not like that I am neither here nor |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll just have to accept that I am not like other girls , ’ she said lightly . |
| 6 | I am not like the odious Du Camp , who would proudly claim many years of friendship with Gustave , but would always deny him genius . |
| 7 | I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes . |
| 8 | I am not like Dame Martha . |
| 9 | I am not like that . |
| 10 | ‘ But then , I am not like Clara . |
| 11 | ‘ Ramsden 's restaurants are not like high street fast food outlets . ’ |
| 12 | You are not like the French . |
| 13 | Birds are not like this : blackbirds or goldfinches vary reassuringly little wherever you go . |
| 14 | People — young people — are not like that ’ , the critics start to cry , forgetting that many children are painfully ( the word is carefully chosen ) aware of the fact . |
| 15 | ‘ The outlaws are not like that ? ’ |
| 16 | They are sucking up to you because they never grew up , and they never grew up because ( if men ) they are ashamed that they are not like me or ( if women ) have never been admitted into full womanhood by being slathered with Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 17 | Thank goodness Englishmen are not like that ! ’ |
| 18 | They are not like Denis and me . |
| 19 | You are not like this to Abu Yusef ? |
| 20 | Thus a process of distortion and exaggeration takes place because , at some level and for different reasons , we want to assert that ‘ they ’ ( whoever ‘ they ’ may be ) are not like us and are inferior in significant respects . |
| 21 | To sum this up , the ‘ rules ’ of talk are not like the rules for solving equations or constructing syllogisms . |
| 22 | But how ? philosophical myths are not like scientific theories ; they are not amenable to experimental testing . |
| 23 | Secondary teacher trainees , being graduates , are uniquely ill-equipped to understand the vast majority of the school population who are not like them , and have no intention of becoming so . |
| 24 | Now merely saying that is not evidence of any kind ( and may merely annoy those AI workers who program in languages other than LISP and do use flow-charts ) , but it does bring out something of the opposition between modules and levels that is the heart of the last part of this paper : flow-chart boxes are essentially separated from each other in ways like those that separate the modules of programs ; but program levels are not like that . |
| 25 | In the case of , say , births and deaths , this is certainly the case , but most social statistics are not like this . |
| 26 | When you get on towards sixty you are not like any one younger , so will you kindly consider the matter over and help me out of it . |
| 27 | But individualism rests on the assumption that individuals are not like this : it is because they themselves contribute to the system of social life that they are so important in explaining it . |
| 28 | They are not like the cynics of the '60s , nor the defeatists of the '70s . |
| 29 | These bonuses , however , are not like those capriciously awarded under the STV : they are far smaller and they are shared out proportionally . |
| 30 | But things are not like this , for two reasons . |