Example sentences of "not like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the new version of the C compiler is released , I sincerely hope that Motorola does not charge for the update , I also hope it provides an adequate manual not like the scant document which accompanied version 1.233 . |
| 2 | I shouted above the din , ‘ Big change in the scenery now , not like the peace and quiet of the waterworks at Southampton . ’ |
| 3 | The dance band is playing , sounds like a military tune , certainly not like the local dances back home . |
| 4 | I walked in with David and there was this guy with a mass of curly hair siting behind a desk , looking very Jewish , not like the Jewish businessman , though he is a wonderful businessman . |
| 5 | The doctor , universally known as ‘ Hubert ’ , was rotund , but it was a jolly bouncing roundness , not like the disgusting pot-bellied men who do n't know whether to wear their trousers above or below their pots . |
| 6 | ‘ She was a beautiful child , too , and tall — not like the rest of us . |
| 7 | ‘ Not like the Empire when we got everything cheap . ’ |
| 8 | Synods were not like the parliaments of liberal democracies . |
| 9 | Not like the others . ’ |
| 10 | For three days there has been smoke , not like the time before . |
| 11 | The God believed in by Jews , Hindus and Christians , is not like the pagan God , Atlas , who was supposed to be underneath the world propping it up on his shoulders . |
| 12 | Not like the computer unit we use at the university . ’ |
| 13 | Not like the old , stiff , black ones I used to have when I was a boy . |
| 14 | Not like the old days at all . |
| 15 | You are not like the French . |
| 16 | May be fussy and irritable but not like the tantrums of Chamomilla or the touchiness of Hepar . |
| 17 | It 's not like the old days . ’ |
| 18 | It 's not like the problem with lead . |
| 19 | Not like the days when we were young , ’ addressing Mum and Dad . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Not like the Conservative Party . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Not like the days in the yards . |
| 24 | Sometimes , the Minister will take the point of a desired amendment , but not like the proposed amendment itself and thus undertake instead to arrange for amendment himself at a later stage . |
| 25 | It was not like the movies : there was no second punch |
| 26 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 27 | BUT it 's not like The U2 or The U2s , which is already happening and ruins it . ’ |
| 28 | We ca n't call on Delmonico 's out here in the country , not like the city . |
| 29 | It 's not like the old days when people lived in villages and knew whose great-great-grandad was a horse thief or whatever . |
| 30 | She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street . |