Example sentences of "can not [be] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why things ca n't be the same in this house as in every other house in the country . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been large all my life and I do n't see why others ca n't be the same way . ’ |
| 3 | Soon the bodies began to pile up here , too , and yet again the Collector and his men had to put their shoulders to the carnal barricade to prevent it from being ejected into the hall ; and yet again , as if in a dream , the Collector found his face an inch from that of an amused sepoy and thought : " It surely ca n't be the same man ! " for from this corpse 's moustache there was also a scent of patchouli . |
| 4 | So it ca n't be the same as in churches even if it stays in the profit ? |
| 5 | Ca n't be the same . |
| 6 | Ca n't be the same as that . |
| 7 | Last year 's was no la it ca n't be the same one then cos last year 's was absolutely terrible , the one I went to with Right Said Fred was amazing I think someone else did go to that , Sue-Anna or somebody ? |
| 8 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 9 | At last night 's service , which ended with a piper playing the lament Flowers on the Forest , Father Keegans said : ‘ Quite simply , life can not be the same again … |
| 10 | When asked why he thought this was so , without examining the tree he said , ‘ It can not be the same on both sides ’ . |
| 11 | Yet songs qua songs can not be the same as symphonies ; dances must satisfy certain basic functional requirements . |
| 12 | Hence , whatever necessity there may be to explain the position to him , the reasons why it is necessary to give such an explanation can not be the same as those which arise under section 8(2) . |