Example sentences of "[not/n't] like [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A harvest which removes the cobs but leaves the dead plants standing is not like a harvest at all . |
| 2 | He looked servile , Albert said happily to himself — not like a man of command passing on old clothes at all ; more like a foot-man waiting for an end of his master 's good-byes . |
| 3 | I live circumscribed and self-communing — 't is best so — not like a Princess in a thicket , by no means , but more like a very fat and self-satisfied Spider in the centre of her shining Web , if you will forgive me the slightly disagreeable Analogy . |
| 4 | Residents should have their own rooms and access to bathroom and WC facilities , preferably of their own , or shared with no more than one or two others ; tenants sharing a house are not like a family of adults and children in an ordinary house where intimacy allows much more comfortable sharing of facilities |
| 5 | He looks not like a peasant from Saratov , but a Civil Servant Grade 5 who has just got off the train from Greenwich . |
| 6 | Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’ |
| 7 | Try to walk into the room with good posture , though not like a guardsman on parade . |
| 8 | Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change . |
| 9 | The promoters tell us that it 's not like a book in which someone is telling you something . |
| 10 | The way he gained ‘ the word that sustains the weary ’ was not like a bolt from the blue , but through patiently listening to God morning by morning . |
| 11 | It 's not like a length of time , it 's just different . |
| 12 | Typically , field scientists spend two or three years studying why the range in eastern Montana is not like the range in western Montana , and explaining to Washington why it should be managed differently — only to be told by bureaucrats that all rangeland planning must be the same everywhere . |
| 13 | It 's not like the problem with lead . |
| 14 | ‘ She was a beautiful child , too , and tall — not like the rest of us . |
| 15 | Not like the rest of us . |
| 16 | The first thing is erm those of you that know this area will know that it 's er not like the rest of Hampshire er leaving aside Southampton . |
| 17 | Being enchanted , its floor was not like the floor of the Forest , gorse and bracken and heather , but close-set grass , quiet and smooth and green . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not like the end of the world . |
| 19 | Not like the curé of Ars . |
| 20 | The politics of the Middle East , in other words , is not like the politics of other places . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not saying he 's raving mad , ’ she said , ‘ but he is n't like the rest of us . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , yes , I 've realised since that you were n't like the rest of us ordinary human beings who are unfortunate enough to be troubled by feelings like grief and guilt . ’ |
| 23 | It 's like off-Broadway in America , but it is n't like the difference between the West End and fringe — it 's one step up from that . |
| 24 | Feelings ran high but it was n't like the drama of last year when the government were forced into a humiliating review of their pit closure programme . |
| 25 | But it was n't like the Store in one important way , Masklin realized . |