Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 2 | What the X-rays reveal , which can not be seen on the surface , are the soldered joins at the neck , handle and base as well as around the hole for the missing spout . |
| 3 | The effects of the inversion decreases southeastwards and can not be seen at all in the south of Quadrant 53 . |
| 4 | Those opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood maintain that it can not be seen as a legitimate development because it is ‘ closely related to the central doctrines of the Christian faith ’ . |
| 5 | However , it can not be seen as a new problem area . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Domestic life can not be seen as a balanced and equal relationship between men and women . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Second , just as the onset of disability can not be seen as a one-off life event , neither can the intervening impact of ageing be considered as a self-contained life event , or even a series of discrete life events . |
| 12 | That is why the treaty on political union at Maastricht can not be seen as some troublesome adjunct to the treaty on monetary union . |
| 13 | ‘ We can not be seen to be throwing more resources at solving this murder , but the truth is , that is what we are doing . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , morally speaking , the nature of these states can not be seen to be catering for the betterment of the broad masses but the consolidation of a ruling groups power . |
| 17 | But this is a case where the stratigraphical wood can not be seen for the nomenclatural trees . |
| 18 | The structure plan can not be seen for providing for a major or sudden change in direction . |
| 19 | These eggs are so small they can not be seen with the naked eye . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But Live Aid et al can not be seen in isolation , and that is where it is revealed as less than world-shifting . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As an operating strategy " demand " can not be seen in isolation . |
| 27 | These changes can not be seen in isolation . |
| 28 | PI : Locks Warranty : In addition to withdrawing keys from locks , the keys must now also be placed where they can not be seen by a would be thief . |
| 29 | keys are withdrawn from the locks fitted to the Home and placed where they can not be seen by anyone intent on making an unauthorised entry |
| 30 | keys are withdrawn from the locks fitted to the Home and placed where they can not be seen by anyone intent on making an unauthorised entry |