Example sentences of "can [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't know how many solar systems there are in each galaxy because we can only see stars , not planets , but we earlier used an estimate that there may be 100 billion billion planets in the universe . |
| 2 | Like , how do you know what goes on , like with , dolphins , with whales , with all sorts of species of animals , like we do n't know , well we 're so dense we can only see things like this ! |
| 3 | ‘ I can only see things getting worse . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing has changed since the revolution and I can only see things getting worse and worse . |
| 5 | This night prowler has a low density of cones in its retina and so can only see colour in objects which fill a large part of its field of view . |
| 6 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |
| 7 | One can thus see gains and losses in the two broad approaches to the study of literature described by Welch ( 1987 ) . |
| 8 | However , we can already see difficulties for any variation on this approach . |
| 9 | One can already see trends in this direction . |
| 10 | But David with with respect but David I can just see people 's eyes glazed over right now . |
| 11 | From my crevice between the two machines I can just see Pa 's face . |
| 12 | I can just see David doing it |
| 13 | We ca n't really complain of being immediately affected by all the building , and we can still see Oban Bay and the ferries coming and going ( at a distance , it 's true ) , but it 's a bit of a shock to find a major extension to Oban on our doorstep , more or less . |
| 14 | You can still see vestiges in the upper terraces of the early Baroque garden . |
| 15 | At any rate , his strange story , told thirty years later , forges another link in the chain of associations , so that Wordsworth , years afterwards , in the last stanza , can still see Matthew ‘ at that moment ’ of finishing his story , though he too , at the time of writing the poem , is also ‘ in his grave ’ . |
| 16 | Now one of the things that you tend to find is that if you were to ask about groups then people regurgitate all the stuff about groups but with most questions you can usually see links to other parts of the syllabus . |
| 17 | Viewers can also see Birds of a Feather , Last of the Summer Wine and Jasper Carrot . |
| 18 | To the right you can also see Winkle Island — an island in the middle of the road with a statue of a winkle . |
| 19 | The seminar will take place at the Science Museum , where you can also see Mike 's exhibition Running on Air — the Nike Exhibition of Sports Shoe Technology . |
| 20 | A good headteacher ( and chair of governors ) in this conception is a person ( usually a man ) who is not only committed to the above ideals but can also see ways of circumventing any constraints upon this style placed by ‘ outside interference ’ such as the advice of the LEA and/or the teacher unions/staff representatives . |
| 21 | I can really see Cadfael rattling round in his black cloak , taking a short cut on his errands round the town . |
| 22 | ‘ Outside observers can often see things more clearly , than those intimately involved , ’ he said calmly , apparently unmoved by her outburst . |
| 23 | You can often see mats of them , beaded with silver bubbles of oxygen , blanketing the bottoms of ponds . |
| 24 | We can now see persona as a socially negotiated , linguistically realised manifestation of " footing " , animated by the speaker and mediated by the speaker 's existing stereotypes ( at least partially shared by other participants in the interaction . ) |
| 25 | These are related to vitality and sensitives can frequently see disease here before it manifests in the physical . |
| 26 | And what we can then see happening is a hardening of specific judgements into presumptions of classes , based now not only on mixed criteria ( for there are held to be cases of ‘ skilfully executed nonsense ’ or ‘ professionally brilliant hokum ’ as well as of ‘ clumsy art ’ or ‘ raw but authentic artistic power ’ ) but also , and crucially , on criteria which are incompatible with the original delimitation by the nature of the practice . |
| 27 | One can either see externalization as undoing this process and therefore no longer serving the ego in its defensive purpose , or one can see the psychotic remodelling of reality which occurs , for instance , in hallucination , as an all-too-successful externalization . |
| 28 | If I wish to maximise my impact on improving human life , I can do so best by putting my effort into activities I know are unlikely to take place otherwise and into small-scale ventures where I can actually see results for my efforts . |