Example sentences of "not like the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was a beautiful child , too , and tall — not like the rest of us . |
| 2 | Not like the rest of us . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not like the end of the world . |
| 8 | May be fussy and irritable but not like the tantrums of Chamomilla or the touchiness of Hepar . |
| 9 | Synods were not like the parliaments of liberal democracies . |
| 10 | Not like the curé of Ars . |
| 11 | The politics of the Middle East , in other words , is not like the politics of other places . |
| 12 | They are not like the cynics of the '60s , nor the defeatists of the '70s . |