Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
| 2 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 3 | ‘ We thought you would n't have been like you were in that interview unless you knew something that — that you were n't telling people . |
| 4 | It ca n't have been like that really , though I believe records show that the summers in the late Twenties and early Thirties were warm and dry . |
| 5 | ‘ But it could n't have been like that . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't imagine being like that , when I 'm old . ’ |