Example sentences of "can not [be] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | When asked why he thought this was so , without examining the tree he said , ‘ It can not be the same on both sides ’ . |
| 4 | Yet songs qua songs can not be the same as symphonies ; dances must satisfy certain basic functional requirements . |
| 5 | 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) . |