Example sentences of "is nothing like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 2 | There is nothing like sitting out on a trapeze on a windy day , getting completely soaked by each new wave to make you feel cleansed of the city grime . |
| 3 | There is nothing like it in either The German Ideology or Formen . |
| 4 | There is nothing like worldly success on the part of one academic to make all the others hate him or her . |
| 5 | But American policy is nothing like formed , which explains European complaints that they hear different things from different Americans . |
| 6 | Even so , the significance it has for Hobbes is nothing like that which it had for Bacon . |
| 7 | She had decided to have a look at the human face of the bogey , and there is nothing like a dog ( the only animal which trusts humans ! ) for starting a conversation . |
| 8 | I gave a good class : there is nothing like teaching well for making one forget oneself and one 's petty troubles . |
| 9 | Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen . |
| 10 | It is strange how we struggle to hold back tears as if our very lives depended upon it ; yet there is nothing like tears — that is , genuine tears , genuinely struggled against — to bring people down to earth ; for now , and at once , Aunt Louise became real : a motherly , rational , human being . |
| 11 | The batting , though , is nothing like the force of old , with a lack of runs undermining the West Indies ' World Cup challenge . |
| 12 | Traditionalists may huff and puff and say there is nothing like the real thing ; aesthetes may deplore the destruction of mystery ; but for most of us it proves as enthralling as exploring a maze . |
| 13 | There is nothing like an organism in the non-living world . |
| 14 | Yet we do know , now , that the world 's waters are the world 's essential regulators : of global temperature , and of the chemistry of the atmosphere — which is nothing like so invariable as we might like to suppose . |
| 15 | ‘ It is nothing like that . |
| 16 | His uncertainty with strangers is nothing like Juanita 's , more the island child 's natural reserve . |
| 17 | Her parts often require her to be prim and snooty but she says she is nothing like that in reality . |
| 18 | There is nothing like a band of men in their working environment to make a single female feel like a page three Martian . |
| 19 | Whilst the attention paid to foreign languages in this country is increasing , it is nothing like the importance of English abroad . |
| 20 | There is nothing like having ignorance with the maximum of precision . |
| 21 | My mental and emotional states also improved , because there is nothing like continuous pain to make one feel depressed and worn out . |
| 22 | A description of the new house was lavish in its praise — ‘ There is nothing like it in the colony . |
| 23 | This is nothing like a synchronized , long-distance , man-and-dog walk and should not be confused with it , but it is a minor walk of sorts and demands some interpretation . |
| 24 | There is nothing like the thrill a week or two later of being able to get back into clothing that you thought had been discarded forever . |
| 25 | But there is nothing like a carefully chosen book to stimulate the examination and reflection which deals with this doubt . |
| 26 | The whole emphasis is different and the tackling is nothing like as good here . |
| 27 | ‘ He is nothing like the gigolos he plays in the movies . |
| 28 | There is nothing like this countryside in the England of the twentieth century ( though rural Ireland is somewhat similar ) . |
| 29 | But a spokesman for Wrekin council , which admitted losing 600 protesters ' letters , said : ‘ There is nothing like it in Europe . |
| 30 | In fact , the atom is nothing like this ( for example , electrons are likely to be nothing more than ‘ confluences of probability waves ’ — in other words , totally incomprehensible in everyday terms ) , yet what do you think of when you think of an atom ? |