Example sentences of "can not [be] see " in BNC.
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| 31 | The triumphs and failures of the party can not be seen solely in terms of its own policy , strategy and organisational forms . |
| 32 | The historical record suggests , however , that at every interface the relationship between levels can not be seen in this way ; rather the potential for each level to exercise autonomy has to be recognised . |
| 33 | The labour process , it is argued , can not be seen merely as an economic process attendant upon capitalist rationality and imposed on the workforce ; it is embedded in social and cultural practices , and without an understanding of this apparatus , particularly the meanings attached to work , it is difficult to account for the specific form of change , for the relationships between ‘ work ’ and ‘ leisure ’ , and for the significance of skill and social relations at the point of production . |
| 34 | Situated as it was in the corner of rural Essex , immediately adjacent to the sprawling East End of London , West Ham was subject to diverse influences ; in the final analysis , however , its growth can not be seen as integral to either of its neighbours . |
| 35 | These eggs are so small they can not be seen with the naked eye . |
| 36 | An object can not be seen unless light reflected from it passes through the eye on to the retina and the brain receives the impulses transmitted from the retina via the optic nerve . |
| 37 | On the journey up the glen , where there are some conifer plantations , the Five Sisters ridge appears foreshortened and can not be seen in perspective , the individual summits being difficult to distinguish ; those on the south side are rather more distant and better discerned . |
| 38 | That is why self-conscious fictional experimentation like stream-of-consciousness tends in its social effects to be conservative , whatever its aspirations ; and the later fiction of Joyce and Virginia Woolf can not be seen to embody any serious proposal to change the world , or to represent a belief that the world could ever be changed . |
| 39 | While that movement has nowhere been wholly completed and has gone less far in some countries than in others , there is no western nation where its effects can not be seen . |
| 40 | Lack of conventional school success can not be seen , in any straightforward way , as indicative of problems in coping with working life . |
| 41 | The contours of the political system can not be seen as something external to the mass media , something on which they have an ‘ impact ’ , since they play a part in its determination by , for instance , giving meanings to events , by setting the agenda for debate and by shaping the political climate . |
| 42 | Furthermore , these circumstances are said to be essentially heterogeneous , so that they can not be seen as aspects of one large contradiction ; each is a contradiction within a particular social totality . |
| 43 | The main point which emerges from considering the historical evidence is that there certainly has been change in the amount and type of support offered , but that this can not be seen simply as a decline from a high to a low point . |
| 44 | The broad feature , which we can loosely refer to as a quasi-periodic oscillation ( QPO ) can not be seen directly in the light curve , because many cycles need to be averaged to overcome Poisson noise . |
| 45 | Subsequently , the Galactic Centre has been shown to be astonishingly bright at many wavelengths , although it can not be seen optically because it is obscured by intervening dust . |
| 46 | A good receptionist must develop a telephone personality — remembering that you can not be seen , only heard . |
| 47 | If the radiation has a wavelength longer than that of red light , it can not be seen , but it can be detected as infra-red and , with increased wavelength , radio radiation . |
| 48 | Of these , the most northerly is the orange K-type Theta , with a declination of 36 degrees south ; therefore it rises anywhere south of latitude 54 degrees north , whereas the two Pointers to the Southern Cross , Alpha and Agena , can not be seen from any part of Europe . |
| 49 | The market can not be seen to be a neutral , fair process whose structure simply permits participants to exercise free choice in negotiating and concluding exchange transactions . |
| 50 | In other words , action which is predetermined by some external constraints can not be seen in the same light as action which accords with some convention , though , on occasion , constrained action may be glossed as rule-governed in an associated account , particularly where the agency of a person is in doubt . |
| 51 | Pleasure and pain can not be seen as a lowering of tension and a heightening of tension respectively ; there can be a pleasurable heightening of tension , as in sexual activity ( a new admission compared with the position Freud took in Beyond the Pleasure Principle ) and a painful lowering of tensions . |
| 52 | Finding the optimum location is largely a matter of trial and error , but aim to place them where they can not be seen upside-down ( i.e. , with the top end facing a wall ) , or use them as wall-hangings . |
| 53 | Obviously , pollen grains are very small plant remains , and can not be seen without the aid of a microscope ; but larger remains ( macroscopic plant remains ) , such as seeds and grains , leaves , twigs , wood and charcoal also provide evidence about the vegetation that existed around a site , and can show if and how it was exploited by the people living there . |
| 54 | Domestic life can not be seen as a balanced and equal relationship between men and women . |
| 55 | These features make the life of reconstituted families very complex ; they can not be seen as enclosed entities in the same way as cereal-packet nuclear families are . |
| 56 | Each of these has changed substantially in the post-war period , but the central argument of this chapter is that such changes can not be seen as the result only of changes within the UK . |
| 57 | In these circumstances they can not be seen to be sacrificing their independence for that would undermine their claims to being objective in taking decisions at work . |
| 58 | This is a space whose geometry can not be seen from any other domain . |
| 59 | But Live Aid et al can not be seen in isolation , and that is where it is revealed as less than world-shifting . |
| 60 | It suggests that the individual can not be seen in isolation from the other parts of the system , and that each part of the system is essential and related to every other part in order to attain a certain outcome . |