Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] anything like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if they are forced to jump , they can not cover anything like the distances achieved by the colobus . |
| 2 | The sums involved are very small and do not cover anything like the cost to the NHS of car accidents . |
| 3 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |
| 4 | The films used in this study were , however , relatively short and it was clear that subjects were not describing anything like the total amount of information that was available . |
| 5 | On most farms the division of labour has not reached anything like the level of most factories and there is a wider variety of jobs to perform and more job rotation . ’ |
| 6 | They still have not moved in properly , and do not have anything like the quantity of clothes , books , porcelain and paintings which took the Thatchers three days to pack up . |
| 7 | However , these institutional norms do not tell anything like the whole story , and this is particularly true if we focus on spoken language in casual conversation and on phonetic and phonological variation : as we noticed in chapter 3 , the norms of a superordinate variety can not be projected on to the norms of a speech community without distorting our description . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's got plenty of pace — but I 'll bet you £1,000 he would not get anything like the same results as Waqar and Wasim . |
| 9 | If it did n't , it would n't achieve anything like the stupendous accuracy that I have described . |
| 10 | It did n't look anything like the diagram . |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't look anything like the man I was expecting , ’ he muttered disparagingly . |
| 12 | In fact I think it 's true to say that when the forty six hectare figure wa was agreed , it was known that the coal field was coming and er I think time has shown has n't brought anything like the number of jobs or economic |
| 13 | ‘ Most later weights are much lighter , the colours are muddier and they do n't have anything like the control over the spacing of the canes . ’ |
| 14 | We ca n't afford anything like the kind of money she can get elsewhere but her loyalties lie with the work she really loves . |
| 15 | For McCloy would n't get anything like the cargo 's true value in his underworld market . |
| 16 | It 's puzzling that the British public seems to share this feeling of worship for Russian dancers , yet does n't extend anything like the same respect to its own . |