Example sentences of "[not/n't] like [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a bit of conversion and a lick of paint , some of these old houses can be splendid to live in , lots of room to breathe , not like a modern box . |
| 2 | Note that a switch is not like a simple perceptron . |
| 3 | The twelfth abbot , according to the guidebook , was the subject of complaints to the Pope , that he had treated his flock , ‘ not like a gentle shepherd , but like a ravening wolf , harrying it ‘ with the stings of affliction , and the bites of persecution ’ , bestowing its property upon his kinsfolk and driving from the monastery those who dared to oppose him' . |
| 4 | The philosophical position I have just outlined is not like a scientific theory : it can not be tested experimentally . |
| 5 | 'S not like a proper world at all . |
| 6 | Not like a human scream . |
| 7 | He supposed it was merely what those awful specs did to her eyes , but sometimes she had an almost maniacal look of purpose in her face , not like a little girl at all . |
| 8 | It would not serve my purpose to make that an illustration of Jesus taking my place or yours , because God the Father is clearly not like a Nazi war criminal . |
| 9 | They greeted Tommaso unselfconsciously , not like a grown-up visitor of the opposite sex with whom they should use manners . |
| 10 | She 's been compared to everybody from Harriet Wheeler to Liz Cocteau to Madonna and sounds , not like a teenage girl from the wilds of rural Limerick , but like several teenage girls from the wilds of rural Limerick , a heavenly host of exultant angels and three hundred trembling divas singing their battered old hearts out . |
| 11 | It 's not like a musical fingerprint where you go , ‘ Ow , man , that 's that guy 's sound . ' ’ |
| 12 | Well , it is unnatural because he 's not like an ordinary father at all . |
| 13 | ‘ You said that like a spoiled little girl , señorita , and not like an icy journalist at all . ’ |
| 14 | It was quite safe , not like an electrified line , and there were n't many trains , anyway . |
| 15 | The poet tells us that ‘ This race it looks not like an earthly race ’ , but it is not made clear what kind of chase we are witnessing . |
| 16 | Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example . |
| 17 | Not like the Labour Party , that we the Labour Party have the power to choose that you do n't have the right to own . |
| 18 | ‘ Not like the real thing , ’ Li Yuan finished for him . |
| 19 | Japan is not like the Western type of professional bureaucracy , with its upper echelons of ‘ cosmopolitans ’ well versed in conflicts with their more ‘ local ’ compatriots ( Gouldner , 1957–8 ) . |
| 20 | When the new version of the C compiler is released , I sincerely hope that Motorola does not charge for the update , I also hope it provides an adequate manual not like the scant document which accompanied version 1.233 . |
| 21 | Not like the man-made beauty of a sports car , its sleek lines and purring engine . |
| 22 | It 's not like the Long Drive . ’ |
| 23 | not , not like the other night when we went |
| 24 | and it 's not like the deaf audience had , had dealing with the |
| 25 | Not like the Conservative Party . |
| 26 | But it 's not like the local newspaper and it 's not like having a group of young people on a bank of telephones phoning every |
| 27 | A more utterly feeble excuse for sacking anyone I 've never heard — it 's just not like the Old Man , " he said , doing a volte-face . |
| 28 | He has often argued that one of Microsoft 's key competitive advantages is precisely that his firm is not like the old computer giants , offering customers everything from chips and computers to software and service contracts . |
| 29 | Sometimes , the Minister will take the point of a desired amendment , but not like the proposed amendment itself and thus undertake instead to arrange for amendment himself at a later stage . |
| 30 | I walked in with David and there was this guy with a mass of curly hair siting behind a desk , looking very Jewish , not like the Jewish businessman , though he is a wonderful businessman . |