Sentence examples for it cannot be like from inspiring English sources

The league is restricted by basic privacy laws — meaning, for example, it cannot be like the Central Intelligence Agency and tap Payton's phones — though it could use private investigators to follow Payton or watch him from public areas.

Habitus needs historical accumulation; it cannot be like Zhao wei tian she lang, mu deng tian zi tang (A peasant in the morning becomes a guest of the emperor by the dawn), which cannot be achieved in a day.

Then my friends told me I cannot be like that.

Sozzani explained, "It cannot be something abstract, like, 'OK, I would like to have the black girls [in the magazine],'" referring to her publication's famous all-black issue.

It cannot be closed like a tax return or settled like a bet.

And it cannot be pigeonholed like a Porsche either, or even like a Lexus.

As a consequence, it cannot be tested like a conventional theory; those calling for her to produce evidence are missing the point.

The inner (big) toe has neither claw nor nail and, unlike the big toe in other American opossums, it cannot be used like an opposable thumb to grasp objects.

By and large, it cannot be transported like oil -- some is liquefied overseas and shipped to the United States, but it is very expensive to do that -- so the United States gets nearly all its gas from North America.

The drawback to CD-R is that it cannot be erased like a hard disk or floppy.

The Government currently has a National Relief Fund which can be used to respond in many ways, including the purchase of relief goods at times of emergency, but it cannot be used – like many other 'emergency funds' – to restock warehouses outside times of crisis.