Example sentences of "not like [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Life is not like a dream metaphor ; it is a dream metaphor !
2 Not like a machine .
3 ‘ It is not like a Dynasty or Dallas thing .
4 I have seen a few salmon in my time and caught a few too but this thing was not like a salmon at all .
5 A harvest which removes the cobs but leaves the dead plants standing is not like a harvest at all .
6 ‘ It 's not like a home , not like this , ’ looking round with satisfaction .
7 But Ludens became aware that Irina was now quietly crying , quietly and continuously her tears streamed down , not like a waterfall , but like the gentle slide of water over smooth stone .
8 Not like a blow heater that eats electricity , dries the air and rattles your mind away from any train of thought .
9 He looked servile , Albert said happily to himself — not like a man of command passing on old clothes at all ; more like a foot-man waiting for an end of his master 's good-byes .
10 ‘ A woman 's love is not like a man 's .
11 In fact , Lok has made comparisons before this , when , as on this occasion , he was struggling to express his understanding of the new people : " " " He changes shape like a bear in a cave " " " and " " " He is like a cat and he is not like a cat .
12 Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years .
13 I live circumscribed and self-communing — 't is best so — not like a Princess in a thicket , by no means , but more like a very fat and self-satisfied Spider in the centre of her shining Web , if you will forgive me the slightly disagreeable Analogy .
14 It is not like a council tax register with people not wishing to make themselves known .
15 Residents should have their own rooms and access to bathroom and WC facilities , preferably of their own , or shared with no more than one or two others ; tenants sharing a house are not like a family of adults and children in an ordinary house where intimacy allows much more comfortable sharing of facilities
16 Not like a Saturday night at all though , not really . ’
17 ‘ He is not like a poet , ’ Wilson said , sniffing , ‘ and I have lived with two of them . ’
18 This is not like a planning appeal because only those who are invited can actually participate , although in practice anyone with anything substantial to say , for or against any aspect of the plan , is likely to be invited .
19 The rabbi 's role is primarily as a teacher , not like a priest who might mediate between the individual and God .
20 He looks not like a peasant from Saratov , but a Civil Servant Grade 5 who has just got off the train from Greenwich .
21 In ( 79 ) it is not just the action itself which is asserted : ( 79 ) He had a singular red cap on — not like a sailor 's cap , but of a finer colour ; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged , and his anticipative death-knell rung , he was seen by all of us to wave it .
22 What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic .
23 When somebody tried to do so , he was treated not like a party politician challenging his leader but like a soldier threatening to desert .
24 I put on a bit of make-up — not like before , not like a freak , just enough to make me feel respectable .
25 But it is a probability that they perceive them , not like a dog sniffing its way along a scent path , but as a motorway , illuminated by very particular lighting signals .
26 Chantelle says that the Gloucester area has lots of good young skiers and they were n't being given a chance so she formed the club and the response has been overwhelming … they survive thanks to parents but they are hoping to find a sponsor … it 's not like a football team or tennis club because they have British champions
27 Not like a goat .
28 Not like a plane
29 He 's not like a father as you 'd sort of think of a father .
30 Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’
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