Example sentences of "[pers pn] can see [is] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I can see is a bloody empty yard wiv a shed in it . |
| 2 | This would get round the example of the sheep in the field because I presumably believe ( falsely ) that the animal I can see is a sheep even though this belief is not used in inference . |
| 3 | Now all I can see is a room filled with cow muck . ’ |
| 4 | It appears to be a storeroom for the canteen rather than the Registry , though — all I can see is a confusion of brown cardboard boxes blazoned Vim and Heinz and Tate & Lyle . |
| 5 | ‘ All you can see is a bleeding bald head , ’ said a young mum in south Wales . |
| 6 | The toxin may or may not be present in strains of er C diphtheria and this is just an immunological test so I wo wo n't explain it in detail but what you can see is a a strip of er , filter paper which has been bathed in anti-toxin and growth of various different strains of the organism erm which , some of which do produce the toxin you can see lines of precipitation here and some of which do n't produce the toxin . |
| 7 | And what you can see is a bed ? |
| 8 | But , there 's a all you can see is a little bright spot |
| 9 | We still hear its voice ; but all we can see is a bare wooden perch . |
| 10 | In the eighteenth century Boswell describes his attack of gonorrhoea , which is complicated by an attack of epididymo-orchitis , and , after a miserable six weeks of self-imposed confinement at home , rejoices that he is cured because all he can see is a slight ‘ gleet ’ which he is happy to ignore . |
| 11 | Gunn is expressing what he can see is a completely irrational attraction . |