Example sentences of "not like the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , field scientists spend two or three years studying why the range in eastern Montana is not like the range in western Montana , and explaining to Washington why it should be managed differently — only to be told by bureaucrats that all rangeland planning must be the same everywhere . |
| 2 | Not like the computer unit we use at the university . ’ |
| 3 | It 's not like the problem with lead . |
| 4 | ‘ She was a beautiful child , too , and tall — not like the rest of us . |
| 5 | Not like the rest of us . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were not like the crew quarters , but reminded him more of a hospital , even before he saw what appeared to be an operating theatre . |
| 8 | ‘ Not like the blob . |
| 9 | No it 's not like the cheesecake I had |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , but it 's not like the map , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I shouted above the din , ‘ Big change in the scenery now , not like the peace and quiet of the waterworks at Southampton . ’ |
| 12 | Christ no , it 's not like the Wellport days , back when : poor old Tod and his one-man no-shows , his lone fiascos . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not like the river valley . |
| 15 | Put cream and the expensive bits , not like the chicken and the time it takes |
| 16 | Everybody has More or less has a paper It 's not like the Scotsman or the News , as regards numbers , but then you 've got all the local news and you got all the local advertisements . |
| 17 | It 's not like the washing powder or something like that , they reckon you said it 's just you know |
| 18 | ‘ Not like the Empire when we got everything cheap . ’ |
| 19 | The Pharisee , Jesus said , thanked God that he was not like the Publican or any other lesser mortal . |
| 20 | Not like the population grows faster than the food so |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not like the end of the world . |
| 22 | For three days there has been smoke , not like the time before . |
| 23 | We ca n't call on Delmonico 's out here in the country , not like the city . |
| 24 | However , a discipline 's interest in this world , and any discipline will do as an example here , is not like the interest that any of us show in that world as a world in which we have to do , and know about , the quite ordinary and mundane things that we do . |
| 25 | Yes , it 's informal … it 's not like the computing department here producing reports , as they recently did , which are multiple choice . |
| 26 | It 's not like the virus that gives you a cold . |
| 27 | You are not like the French . |
| 28 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 29 | When I say we 've got some trouble , we do , but it 's not like the trouble we had half an hour ago , when in fact there were three lines , sections of which there were no trains on at all . |
| 30 | Not like the curé of Ars . |