Example sentences of "[am/are] not like the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thus , the issue can be joined as human beings are not like the objects of physical science and therefore can not be quantified , that human action is concerned with meaning , reasons , intentions and understandings and this , therefore , is an interpretative matter rather than a phenomenon subject to causal explanation , that qualitative studies are not really scientific , and so on . |
| 3 | I hope they are not like the ones we found in the store , still a bit alive . |
| 4 | To sum this up , the ‘ rules ’ of talk are not like the rules for solving equations or constructing syllogisms . |
| 5 | They are not like the cynics of the '60s , nor the defeatists of the '70s . |
| 6 | You are not like the French . |
| 7 | While they are happy to predate on anything small enough to swallow — playing havoc with Molly fry for instance — they are not like the Bumble Bee Gobies , ( and the less-well-known Slim Mudskippers Parapocryptes serperaster which we also keep ) which will accept only frozen or live foods . |
| 8 | I 'm used to er I 'm not like the London 's a little bit different that other er financial services |