Example sentences of "[adv] can not see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the laughter C , who apparently can not see the photograph , asks " what was I wearing ? " : her London English response to the Creole comment which elicited the laughter . |
| 2 | He said today : ‘ I just can not see him ever coming back , not after this length of time . |
| 3 | Well I 'd I 'd I just can not see how it 's fair ! |
| 4 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 5 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 6 | Forest loom in the FA Cup in the New Year , and if United , who had their lowest League crowd of the season on Saturday and are now only six points ahead of the bottom club City , still can not see the wood for the trees , somebody will be in for the chop . |
| 7 | You feel you have tried all ways , listened to advice , thought about your life but still can not see your way clear . |
| 8 | The frog relies on its fly detectors so much that it probably can not see a motionless insect , and will starve rather than eat one . |
| 9 | I really can not see how high interest rates which penalise investment … help in the fight against inflation . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I really can not see how you can repair them . |
| 11 | Justice is not always swift , but in ways we often can not see in advance it is generally sure . |
| 12 | I simply can not see the point in having things I do n't need . |
| 13 | I 'm afraid Mr. Optimist here can not see Leeds winning , or keeping a clean sheet . |
| 14 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |