Example sentences of "they can not see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they can not see potential at a ground shorn of its wooden stands and surrounded by deprivation . |
| 2 | They can not see the point . |
| 3 | With such a healthy list of urgent needs , advice workers might be excused if they become impatient when training for which they can not see an immediate need is imposed upon them . |
| 4 | They want to feel that they are eating the kind of food which will add to the chances of their remaining in good health , but often they can not see how they can do so if their income has been drastically reduced . |
| 5 | A favourite method of torment sees the bogie leap on its victim 's back as they travel alone at night on a country road , clasping hard hands over the person 's eyes so they can not see . |
| 6 | There is no intention in these arguments to give any sustenance to the view that corporate officials have been so successfully socialized into the ‘ way of life ’ that they can not see what they are doing or that the organizational constraints upon them were so tight as to be ‘ coercive ’ and therefore excusing . |
| 7 | They can not see how they could begin to generalise about approaches to women in development that could be useful since women are represented in rich and poor , rural and urban , educated and uneducated , all ethnic , religious , cultural , tribal and other groupings . |
| 8 | Always keep the caller informed of what is happening — they can not see you ! |
| 9 | Because the way the English drive , on the wrong side , with the brim — ’ and to illustrate her point , Madame put a hand up to her right eye , ‘ with the brim comme ça they can not see the oncoming traffic ! ’ |
| 10 | No human beings , except the courageous and experienced blind , are able to sense much in a strange place where they can not see , but with rabbits it is otherwise . |
| 11 | All fish can detect the presence of objects near them even if they can not see them . |
| 12 | But if , on days when they can not see the sun , small magnets strong enough to drown the earth 's comparatively feeble magnetic signals are attached to their heads , they get lost . |
| 13 | The water in which river dolphins live is so muddy that they can not see anything . |
| 14 | I would not ask them to fund anything they can not see with their own eyes . ’ |
| 15 | If they can not see where the time has been recorded the time will not normally be allowed . |
| 16 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |