Example sentences of "not be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | There are others which have not been like this , but have achieved positive things for their members and for their societies , such as democratic socialist parties . |
| 3 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 4 | So far we 've not been it 's not been like this has it ? |
| 5 | I 've always been skiing with my parents , so I 've been to America to visit friends , and that 's not been like sightseeing , or something , and I just have n't been anywhere , and erm , I mean , I suppose I 've been to a lot more countries than a lot of people who 've , you know , there 's a lot of people who have n't |
| 6 | We can not be like Red Indians , sitting in a circle and acting as one man. , ‘ Do you think we have lost that forever ? ’ |
| 7 | Not only will it not be like its parents , it probably wo n't want to be . |
| 8 | And when we do return , it shall not be like other travellers , without being able to give one accurate idea of anything . |
| 9 | Peter Forbes on why words should not be like numbers |
| 10 | Those emigrés who have settled in Western society have found that their diaspora churches can not be like the great populist and establishment churches of Russia and Greece ; they have to survive as nonconformist ‘ sects ’ . |
| 11 | And there was no reason why NoS could not be like the Sun and still talk to the left . |
| 12 | As for the doctrinal impediments , Wilkins pointed out that intelligent inhabitants need not be like humans . |
| 13 | For all his reverence for Hugh of Lincoln Richard had always been determined that other bishops should not be like him . |
| 14 | You 'll not be like him , will you ? ’ |
| 15 | Surely I can not be like the old murmuring Israelites , to long after the onions and garlic of Egypt when they had suffered there such heavy bondage ? |
| 16 | I would not be like this . |
| 17 | Not be like his dad . |
| 18 | It will not be like that . |
| 19 | It was not always like that and it need not be like that now . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Why — because , though at any other time I could perhaps let my feelings have their head , this time , for a reason I simply was n't seeing then , I just knew that it could not be like that with you . ’ |
| 21 | The Everest crew may not be like that . |
| 22 | In April 1816 , musing after John Brownrigg 's death , he says he might have thought differently of him had he been born in Ambleside , ‘ the moral code of the people here not being like that of many other places . ’ |
| 23 | Although I 'm not being like one of these people who does everything and then tells everyone not to do it . |
| 24 | In the decline of the Qing dynasty , Chinese nationalists felt ‘ the shame of not being like Japan ’ . |
| 25 | But more generally the shame of not being like Japan has now been reinforced by the shame of not being like Romania . |
| 26 | But more generally the shame of not being like Japan has now been reinforced by the shame of not being like Romania . |
| 27 | Yet no great effort of imagination is required to described Jones meaningfully and accurately as either being like those who are Tolstoy-liking or not being like those who are Tolstoy-liking . |
| 28 | Because they all hate us , they hate us for being different , for not being them , for their own not being like us . |
| 29 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |
| 30 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |