Example sentences of "unlike the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Unlike the forces , they worked and often largely existed , alone .
2 Unlike the forces , they worked and often largely existed , alone .
3 It has been rightly said that in the thirteenth century the king of France ( unlike the king of England ) possessed no direct control over the whole kingdom : ‘ outside the domain , default alone allowed him to act ’ .
4 However the Lyceum , unlike the King 's , depends on subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council which is planning to cut its funding in real terms over the next four years .
5 Unlike the colour printing achieved from multi-ribbon matrix printers the results are really excellent .
6 But the one thing that you can not change , unlike the colour , is the fact that it faces north .
7 Unlike the test sentences above , recognition input can contain many alternative words for each one written .
8 Unlike the United States , Britain had no large sparsely-populated desert areas in which to deploy strategic missiles .
9 It should be emphasised that unlike the United States the USSR has not made extensive use of overseas ‘ forward ’ garrisons in the Third World .
10 We began this section by noting that , unlike the United States which takes a structural approach to anti-trust policy , in which the possession of monopoly power is itself regarded as objectionable , the UK has taken a more open view of the benefits of promoting competition .
11 For example , unlike the United States , mergers should be very closely scrutinized .
12 Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant .
13 Unlike the United States , Britain has no fixed-term elections at a national level .
14 In Britain , unlike the United States , there are no residence requirements : hence , parties enjoy a wider range of choice in the selection of candidates .
15 In Britain , unlike the United States , there are no primary elections and the selection of a candidate is in practice usually in the hands of a small group of party activists .
16 Unlike the Sun Alliance last week , I must earn my dividend first and pay it afterwards .
17 The Kayapo of Para , Brazil , unlike the Jivaro , live in a seasonal climate with a marked dry spell each year .
18 By 1918 these fears had reached fever pitch ; one Conservative MP recalled that his family had expected that the end of the war would be followed by atrocities like those in Russia , that " families like ours would be strung up from the nearest lamp post " ; Robert Sanders was surprised to see on Armistice Day that the crowds were actually cheering the King , so unlike the fate of the Russian royal family a few months earlier .
19 Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings .
20 Unlike the occasion of the 1989 upper house contest , the LDP fought an accomplished election campaign .
21 Unlike the Egyptians and Babylonians , the Hebrews did not regard kingship as ‘ anchored in the cosmos ’ .
22 Unlike the Egyptians , with whose process Hunter was not impressed , he did not remove the brain , implying that it could be sufficiently well treated in situ by general injection .
23 They worked only in white , for unlike the Egyptians , Sudanese men wore only white gallibayas and pantaloons .
24 The dinosaur hip socket also had a large hole in the bottom of the basin , unlike the sprawlers .
25 So unlike the attitude of his equally famous French contemporary : nine years earlier , Boswell ‘ mentioned our design to Voltaire .
26 Unlike the B Specials they had no officers or NCOs of their own .
27 Unlike the UK , in France dairy cows are eligible in predominantly dairy areas ( e.g. the Auvergne uplands ) with a limit of 10 per farm unit ( higher limits in ‘ haute montagne ’ ) .
28 Again unlike the UK , calves , store stock and bulls are also eligible .
29 Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) .
30 Unlike the UK , where the Court on declaring an agreement " contrary to the public interest " then has little power to impose effective penalties against offending firms , the Commission has considerable powers of enforcement and can fine firms up to 10 per cent of their turnover for operating an anti- competitive practice .
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