Example sentences of "[be] not [noun] like " in BNC.
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1 | One is that the Zionists are not Marxists like the IRA . |
2 | And they say there are n't boys like him any more . |
3 | 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 . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They were not puppets like the garden-master . |
6 | 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 ? |
7 | Howard was a revelation to me because his parents were n't intellectuals like the parents of all the other children I knew . |
8 | And were n't defectors like displaced persons , small and shabby with cardboard suitcases . |