Example sentences of "can [adv] see [adv] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well sir , I think we can rule out natural causes and I ca n't see how dynamite could accidentally get under a table , so unless he committed suicide in a way that endangered the lives of other people , I think we must assume it was murder . |
| 2 | ‘ I simply ca n't see how people can eat tripe , ’ said Betty , shuddering . |
| 3 | Yes well I , I certainly in this parish , I can not see how people could n't manage to get to classes |
| 4 | At the end of the franchise period he will have nothing to sell , so I can not see how people could go away and borrow the working capital with which to run a business . |
| 5 | Welcome though any new money is for the conservation of important landscape features such as hedges , we can not see how CCW can hope to tackle the huge legacy of hedge deterioration apparent in many parts of Wales with this relatively small sum of money . |
| 6 | A further consequence for linguistic form exists in the examples ( 40 ) to ( 43 ) but , before that , let us turn to our second question ; we can now see why postnominals could often have an " aura " of emphasis , yet without this being clearly and consistently present . |
| 7 | In such inversions of social regard we can again see how movement will tend to confound the police preference for and reliance on a rigidly maintained classificatory world . |