Example sentences of "be 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 |
| 9 | They were not like the crew quarters , but reminded him more of a hospital , even before he saw what appeared to be an operating theatre . |
| 10 | Synods were not like the parliaments of liberal democracies . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The politics of the Middle East , in other words , is not like the politics of other places . |
| 13 | However , a discipline 's interest in this world , and any discipline will do as an example here , is not like the interest that any of us show in that world as a world in which we have to do , and know about , the quite ordinary and mundane things that we do . |
| 14 | Everybody has More or less has a paper It 's not like the Scotsman or the News , as regards numbers , but then you 've got all the local news and you got all the local advertisements . |
| 15 | Christ no , it 's not like the Wellport days , back when : poor old Tod and his one-man no-shows , his lone fiascos . |
| 16 | It 's not like the problem with lead . |
| 17 | No it 's not like the cheesecake I had |
| 18 | The second this about it , it 's certainly not addictive in any way , it 's not like the barbiturates Valium and so on . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , but it 's not like the map , ’ he said . |
| 20 | She 's not like the others . |
| 21 | It 's not like the prayers that we heard about a few weeks ago , from Paul 's letters to Timothy and Philemon , where he was addressing an individual . |
| 22 | It 's not like the virus that gives you a cold . |
| 23 | When I say we 've got some trouble , we do , but it 's not like the trouble we had half an hour ago , when in fact there were three lines , sections of which there were no trains on at all . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not like the end of the world . |
| 25 | It 's not like the washing powder or something like that , they reckon you said it 's just you know |
| 26 | BUT it 's not like The U2 or The U2s , which is already happening and ruins it . ’ |
| 27 | It 's not like the card . |
| 28 | Yes , it 's informal … it 's not like the computing department here producing reports , as they recently did , which are multiple choice . |
| 29 | It was not like the movies : there was no second punch |
| 30 | 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 . |