Example sentences of "can see [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All you can see is a bleeding bald head , ’ said a young mum in south Wales . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development , a typical feature of Minoan civilization . |
| 4 | ‘ All I can see is a bloody empty yard wiv a shed in it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now all I can see is a room filled with cow muck . ’ |
| 8 | We still hear its voice ; but all we can see is a bare wooden perch . |
| 9 | Gunn is expressing what he can see is a completely irrational attraction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And what you can see is a bed ? |
| 12 | But , there 's a all you can see is a little bright spot |
| 13 | ‘ Look at the fly ; all he can feel , all he can see is the table . |
| 14 | So again there are n't many things that do complete , swimming I think I far as I can see is the only one that does , but then again that depends on how you use the swimming , it , it just , just cos you bathes every week does n't necessarily mean that it does do it for you , it depends what you do , okay ? |
| 15 | All I can see is the face of Rainbow Rosenbloom , receding backwards in time and space and vanishing in a little pinpoint of light . |
| 16 | in a setting of suburban , industrial , residential development , and some of those viewpoints on the ring road all one can see is the suburban , industrial , and residential development . |
| 17 | Well all they can see is the top of my head so I 'm alright |
| 18 | And all you can see is the red at the top on the other side cause the walls in the way . |
| 19 | It runs off with ornaments , it digs holes so deep you ca n't even see the puppy in the hole all you can see is the earth coming out of the ground . |
| 20 | Well yeah but what you can see is the cellar because the torch beams have hit the cellar and it 's and it 's back into your eye . |
| 21 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 22 | I look all the way round but all I can see are the shapes of the trolleys and the wire fence on both sides . |
| 23 | The only planets we can see are the ones that orbit the Sun — far too small a sample to draw any conclusions from . |
| 24 | At night all you can see are the lights , a breathtaking panorama . |