Example sentences of "i can not see " in BNC.

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1 I can not see the necessity of the shadow cast by a half-opened drawer in the kitchen table. , It is encouraging to find Fry underlining a point about critical writing — that with a description of a work of art it can be useful to be given an explicit account of how the critic responds .
2 While I can not see the attraction , at least it keeps her busy in the evenings .
3 Somehow , I can not see either Monte Carlo or Hamburg allowing their status to be lowered without a fight .
4 Assuming licensees and magistrates act sensibly in seeking and granting approval , I can not see any strong objection to this .
5 Because of the practical difficulties in overcoming the first of these problems , I can not see , even if the price of the D-to-A converter were a few pence , Class D in its Reeves or Sandler guise making much progress .
6 I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects .
7 I can not see how the canon of poetry could avoid being constructed along historical lines , though the problem and implications of canon-formation should be faced , as part of theoretical study .
8 We have made a bid of nearly £700m for a company with a book value of £200m — we 've acknowledged there is some extra worth there , but I can not see the sort of value they are talking about in property .
9 I can not see that one voting system is intrinsically more fair than another .
10 Personally I can not see what all the fuss has been about . ’
11 I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice .
12 I can not understand this as I can not see any detrimental effect on the carp .
13 I can not see her but I can summon up her presence .
14 ‘ Do not let anyone in , I can not see anyone , ’ Alida Thorne said , turning on Dorothea .
15 He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party .
16 He is ever confused and his confusion makes him angry and I can not see that it can be helped though it is hard to endure .
17 I can not see how this war can affect my future .
18 Although this issue has raised the passions of taxonomists , I can not see that it is important .
19 I can not see Britain following the example of so many European countries , where multi-sports clubs are the norm .
20 ‘ I have read between the lines of the German decision , but I can not see any new facts to support this change of heart .
21 I can not see anyone doing that this time and providing it is a reasonable pace I will be at the front .
22 Times are changing , but I can not see anybody stopping the world-ranked top four . ’
23 At night I can not see it , and in the morning , it is gone .
24 But they concern themselves primarily with discussing the application of nuclear physics , and I can not see that the work of a biologist could profitably be discussed at such a conference , and certainly not by me .
25 I can not see that it would do much good . ’
26 I can not see the remotest reason for your worrying . ’
27 I am careful to have my desk angled towards the centre of the room so that I can not see the view from the window across the park towards the lake and the western curve of the South Downs .
28 ‘ Those are base matters , I can not see base matters .
29 Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste .
30 We did , of course , over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges , but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I can not see even Miss Kenton having been so forward .
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