Example sentences of "not [vb pp] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 2 | That is not shaped like a rugby ball . |
| 3 | Most textbooks are not written like a thriller , though it might be interesting if they were . |
| 4 | If she is not watched like a hawk she will be in trouble of some sort before you can say Jack Robinson . ’ |
| 5 | It 's not called like a golf club that you hit the ball with ? |
| 6 | The first is that the meaning of a word is not fixed like a dictionary definition , but rather it varies according to the words with which it enters into combination : consider the different meanings of ‘ white ’ in the expressions ‘ white wine ’ and ‘ white coffee ’ . |
| 7 | Lyotard holds that we can best understand the nature of the unconscious through examining precisely how it is not structured like a language , that the most important criterion of demarcation of the unconscious from the ego lies in the ways that the former does not operate as does language . |
| 8 | That ai n't shaped like a rugby ball . |