Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] see the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He could not see the Wood family . |
2 | The party 's problem was that it was a Catholic organisation and could not see the class basis of the problems . |
3 | Place could not see the police presence on the river walk above his head , but he could probably guess it was there . |
4 | The tide was already on the turn , you could just see the stone margin of the path they had walked . |
5 | Although it was dark , I could still see the stone wall at the edge of the road . |
6 | Nathan could still see the preacher standing , shocked and speechless , on his box . |
7 | Yeremi could still see the tube wall quite clearly with his enhanced vision . |
8 | Behind the gun barrel , we could now see the tank crew sitting on the turret of the T-62 , one of them with a cloth tied round his forehead . |
9 | From where he stood he could n't see the hospital wing . |
10 | But what about the sailors in the southern hemisphere — the part of the earth south of the Equator ? they could n't see the Pole Star , so what did they use to guide them ? |
11 | Working out the visibility was easier as we did have guidelines here — a tree on the other side of the airfield was at 1,000 yards , a distant farmhouse 2 miles , and if you could n't see the briefing room it was foggy . |
12 | The organ pipes are in the middle of the chancel and you could n't see the east window at the . |
13 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
14 | The previous evening they had insisted on taking her to the cinema , ignoring her protests that she would rather see the Molière play at the Comédie Française , to watch Jacques Prévert 's film Les Enfants du Paradis . |
15 | I ca n't see the education committee with their lack of money paying for transport for children from here |
16 | I ca n't see the education committee , with their lack of money , paying for transport for children out here to go to hospital to do a garden |
17 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
18 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
19 | Like you said you ca n't see the body language and fobbed off . |
20 | He 's also figuring DEC has an unannounced ‘ modular computing ’ initiative that will ultimately see the Laser top out at 12 CPUs or more . |
21 | And it 's clear , we 're seeing already , that Health Authorities have n't got the money to refer patients to the Trusts unless the Government steps in and says , that 's not Government policy , so you wo n't see the problems Councillor because they wo n't get referred to you , will they ? |
22 | Of course , your neighbours wo n't see the Woodworker Fellowship logo so you will need to acquire an additional cloth badge to show off your membership . |
23 | Another rebel said : ‘ He has tunnel vision and can only see the Maastricht Treaty . |
24 | Unsurprisingly , viewers in the Serb-held cities in Bosnia are no longer able to receive Sarajevo TV , but can only see the Belgrade version of reality . |
25 | It does n't mean pretending you can not see the peeling wallpaper and moth-eaten curtains , and going wild with a credit card . |
26 | In general terms , if you can not see the water surface you should trim and fly the aeroplane at the speed and configuration which gives the best combination of high nose attitude , low airspeed and minimum rate of descent . |
27 | Zenith can not see the source code because the copy is compiled ( in object code ) , but by using the program extensively , Zenith gets a good insight into the workings and structure of Acme 's program and , based on this insight , Zenith writes its program ( obviously without using a source code listing of Acme 's program ) . |
28 | But I can just see the Sun headline , a fitting follow up to ‘ Paddy Pants-down ’ , to wit : ‘ Is Neil A Nancy Boyo ? ’ |
29 | Non-train ticket holders can still see the road traction engine display at Swanage at £1 for adults and just 50 pence for children . |
30 | Inside , one can still see the Map Room , where Churchill used to study the progress of the war , the Cabinet Room where many of the Second World War 's most important decisions were made , and Churchill 's personal accommodation from which he made several of his wartime broadcasts . |