Example sentences of "i can [not/n't] see [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't see why the ordinary housewife should n't do it . ’ |
| 2 | As FRAG chairman Chris Swinson points out , ‘ I ca n't see why the Government would have mentioned it if it was not intending to act . |
| 3 | Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste . |
| 4 | ‘ Undoubtedly if the justices had proceeded to adjudicate on the case either by convicting or by acquitting the defendant , that would have afforded ground for a good plea to the indictment , but I can not see why the fact that the justices at first said they would deal summarily with the case and afterwards changed their minds should be said to have deprived quarter sessions of jurisdiction . |
| 5 | But the fact remains that while local authorities demonstrate their continued inability to use the resources that are already at their disposal , when so many Labour-controlled authorities can not even be bothered to collect the huge sums in uncollected rent , I can not see why the hon. Gentleman should be concerned about the level of rents . |
| 6 | I can not see why the actuary having a liability for an employee , if that employee becomes a deferred pensioner that the actuary having a liability for the fund |
| 7 | I can not see how the canon of poetry could avoid being constructed along historical lines , though the problem and implications of canon-formation should be faced , as part of theoretical study . |