Example sentences of "not like a [noun sg] " 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 | A harvest which removes the cobs but leaves the dead plants standing is not like a harvest at all . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not like a home , not like this , ’ looking round with satisfaction . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not like a blow heater that eats electricity , dries the air and rattles your mind away from any train of thought . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ A woman 's love is not like a man 's . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is not like a council tax register with people not wishing to make themselves known . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | ‘ He is not like a poet , ’ Wilson said , sniffing , ‘ and I have lived with two of them . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The rabbi 's role is primarily as a teacher , not like a priest who might mediate between the individual and God . |
| 18 | He looks not like a peasant from Saratov , but a Civil Servant Grade 5 who has just got off the train from Greenwich . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When somebody tried to do so , he was treated not like a party politician challenging his leader but like a soldier threatening to desert . |
| 22 | I put on a bit of make-up — not like before , not like a freak , just enough to make me feel respectable . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Not like a goat . |
| 26 | ‘ Not like a plane … |
| 27 | He 's not like a father as you 'd sort of think of a father . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That 's for despising your own life , fool , ’ he said calmly , ‘ Learn to kill like a reasoning man when you must , not like a woman crazed with spite . ’ |
| 30 | It 's not like a concentration camp . |