Example sentences of "they can be see [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , Althusser stresses , no ‘ single ideological base time , to which all these different temporalities can be related , no ordinary ‘ single continuous reference time ’ which they can be seen to dislocate ( 105 ) . |
| 2 | Now they can be seen strolling around the city alongside their mahouts or drivers , or earning their living as tourist attractions , tethered to hotel lawns and bars . |
| 3 | Once detached , they can be seen moving very slowly away . |
| 4 | If it carries a marker its descendants can be recognized , and they can be seen to give rise to all sorts of tissues , from muscle and bone , to liver and brain . |
| 5 | Grice calls such usages floutings or exploitations of the maxims , and they can be seen to give rise to many of the traditional " figures of speech " . |
| 6 | Clearly , they can be seen to have a particular self-concept , a sense of what Weber termed social honour ( Wallis , Bruce , and Taylor 1986 ) . |
| 7 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
| 8 | They can be seen running along the skyline before rounding the cairn and beginning the precipitous descent . |
| 9 | The lines are so close together that two of them can be seen crossing the planet Jupiter at any one time . |