Example sentences of "not [noun] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | When talking about fitness , I mean the basic amount of exercise necessary to keep our bodies in working order , not activities like athletics , weight-lifting , assault courses or long-distance running . |
| 2 | And kids mean money — not money like throw-it-away 1986 money , but chronic money : money which goes slice by slice into the mortgage , the pension plan , the life insurance , the repairs to the house ( yes , it 's goodbye rank , noisy little flat and hallo four bedrooms somewhere quieter now that the family 's started ) , school fee plans , nappies , baby clothes , holidays in DIY villas in southern France , and the bigger car to get you , the kids , and their impedimenta to the DIY villa . |
| 3 | One is that the Zionists are not Marxists like the IRA . |
| 4 | Not act like a bunch of kids ! |
| 5 | ‘ You ought to be meeting more boys your own age , not letches like Bas and the twins . |
| 6 | ‘ Not writers like Maggie , ’ Mitch said emphatically . |
| 7 | Not problems like young Michael 's , but I 've enough to be going on with . |
| 8 | They were not puppets like the garden-master . |
| 9 | " Not things like you , " said Clelia . |
| 10 | The unspoken subtext of Barley 's amusing odyssey in search of Raffles is this : was all western imperialism really so bad , and were not men like Raffles far better rulers than the exploiters , white and brown , who came before and after them ? |
| 11 | And were n't defectors like displaced persons , small and shabby with cardboard suitcases . |
| 12 | All very well , but could n't people like the Kaufmanns have done rather more to undermine the evil regime that had their country in its grip ? |
| 13 | Are n't people like yourselves being a little bit presumptuous and perhaps even arrogant in feeling that you can help people solve their problems in the rest of the world . |
| 14 | Howard was a revelation to me because his parents were n't intellectuals like the parents of all the other children I knew . |
| 15 | Tralbaut mentions an old woman who knew Vincent well , and who told him , many years ago when he began his researches , ‘ There are n't men like that nowadays . ’ |
| 16 | And they say there are n't boys like him any more . |