Example sentences of "not like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a bit of conversion and a lick of paint , some of these old houses can be splendid to live in , lots of room to breathe , not like a modern box . |
| 2 | Note that a switch is not like a simple perceptron . |
| 3 | The twelfth abbot , according to the guidebook , was the subject of complaints to the Pope , that he had treated his flock , ‘ not like a gentle shepherd , but like a ravening wolf , harrying it ‘ with the stings of affliction , and the bites of persecution ’ , bestowing its property upon his kinsfolk and driving from the monastery those who dared to oppose him' . |
| 4 | ‘ He takes his feeds very well , not like a fretful one would . ’ |
| 5 | The philosophical position I have just outlined is not like a scientific theory : it can not be tested experimentally . |
| 6 | It was the first time in my life I wanted to carry myself as a woman , not like a weird , kinda little ragamuffin girl . ’ |
| 7 | 'S not like a proper world at all . |
| 8 | Quite light really , he explained , lifting up one end , not like a cast-iron one . |
| 9 | Not like a human scream . |
| 10 | He supposed it was merely what those awful specs did to her eyes , but sometimes she had an almost maniacal look of purpose in her face , not like a little girl at all . |
| 11 | It would not serve my purpose to make that an illustration of Jesus taking my place or yours , because God the Father is clearly not like a Nazi war criminal . |
| 12 | They greeted Tommaso unselfconsciously , not like a grown-up visitor of the opposite sex with whom they should use manners . |
| 13 | She 's been compared to everybody from Harriet Wheeler to Liz Cocteau to Madonna and sounds , not like a teenage girl from the wilds of rural Limerick , but like several teenage girls from the wilds of rural Limerick , a heavenly host of exultant angels and three hundred trembling divas singing their battered old hearts out . |
| 14 | It 's not like a musical fingerprint where you go , ‘ Ow , man , that 's that guy 's sound . ' ’ |