Example sentences of "can [be] see [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adult worms , reddish in colour and 1.0 cm in length , can be seen on close inspection of the mucosal surface . |
| 2 | When open , only half with width of the door projects into the room , but the whole contents of the cupboard can be seen at one glance . |
| 3 | The furnace is scheduled as an Ancient Monument in the care of the Department of the Environment , and can be seen at any time . |
| 4 | Engine house can be seen at any time . |
| 5 | Can you find out about any others that can be seen at this time of year ? |
| 6 | This race is distinctly darker than our British bird and can be seen to good advantage on Sea-lion Island , the most southerly inhabited island in the Falklands . |
| 7 | This slab of syncopated stupidity is receiving the heaviest of heavy MTV rotation and can be seen to fullest advantage bookending slurred appearances by that station 's in-house West Coast wastoid , Pauly Shore . |
| 8 | The Royal Oak of Boscobel can be seen to this day , painted on signs outside countless pubs all over the country . |
| 9 | At New Winchelsea many of the thirty-nine squares or chequers into which the town-site had been divided in the 1280s were never built upon , but remained under grass and can be seen to this day . |
| 10 | The effect of using garnet as an inlay can be seen with particular brilliance in the jewellery purse components , shield ornaments and sword-fittings from the royal ship-burial at Sutton Hoo ( fig. 27 ) . |
| 11 | Summary of proposed changes The disk is round up to 17 mm disk diameter , and appears to be covered with skin but in dry specimens small scales can be seen through this covering . |
| 12 | This can be seen as physiological immaturity or a deficiency in learning where the child has not learned the series of conditioned reflexes necessary for achieving bladder control . |
| 13 | In its beginnings , therefore , modern nationalism can be seen as one aspect of a class movement which found political expression in a general struggle for democracy ; manifesting itself most clearly in the American Revolution — interpreted by some scholars as the formation of the ‘ first new nation ’ ( Lipset , 1967 ) — and in the French Revolution , which together established the model of a new kind of political system embodying the ideas of ‘ citizenship ’ and ‘ popular sovereignty ’ . |
| 14 | Personal , emotional conflicts can be seen as blocking creativity whereas ideas-controversies ( 'debates ' ) are stimulating , but in some highly creative organizations both types of tension are markedly present . |
| 15 | Early state intervention over factory hours , therefore , can be seen as public control necessitated by the blind self-destructiveness of capital itself . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the ‘ family ’ in this form is still explicitly and implicitly upheld and supported by social policy and the Child Support Act can be seen as another example of this . |
| 17 | Thus the rational expectation hypothesis can be seen as supporting Friedman 's policy recommendation . |
| 18 | Thus , for over sixty years , there have been specially equipped and staffed clinics throughout the country , where patients can be seen without direct referral by their general practitioners . |
| 19 | Individuals go to bed later or earlier than average on certain occasions , as can be seen by close inspection of Fig. 2.2 . |
| 20 | Just as the term ‘ literacy ’ itself turned out to be more precise than in general use , and we were able to pin down the distinction ‘ literate/non-literate ’ to ‘ literacy in classical Greece ’ as opposed to literacy or non-literacy elsewhere , so the grand consequences of the literacy being described can be seen from this passage to hinge on very particular distinctions . |
| 21 | It can be seen from this explanation that sociolinguistics is basically comparative , comparing the usage of one group ( for example women ) with another ( for example men ) . |
| 22 | It can be seen from this figure that the contango is measured by F t - S t , while the normal backwardation ( E ( S T ) - F t ) represents the risk premium , that is , the profit required to compensate traders for assuming the risk of fluctuations in the spot price at delivery . |
| 23 | It can be seen from this account that the mechanism by which nerve cells operate can be strongly affected by psychoactive drugs and poisons . |
| 24 | Another form of mass production , usually called flow production or process production , can be seen in continuous process industries such as steel-making , paper-making and cement production . |
| 25 | The same pattern can be seen in higher education , with 144 Unionists going to Oxford or Cambridge ( 88–53 to the dark blues ) , again twice the proportion of Liberals . |
| 26 | If a cube is sidelit and viewed against a neutral background , its vertical edges can be seen in sharp relief . |
| 27 | The abundant records and maps of post-medieval and modern times mean that much of the estate structure for these periods can be seen in great detail . |
| 28 | The protest of the human individual against the massive forces which control him is indeed a theme which can be seen in contemporary art , literature , music and drama , in the struggles against racialism , poverty and war , in the popular movements of Western youth and in the renewed campaign for women 's emancipation ; so we can hardly be surprised if parents too begin to question the authority of the experts . |
| 29 | There is , for example , a distinct positivist and empiricist strain which emerges in the functionalist style and whose roots can be seen in sociological positivism , the Fabian aspects of evolutionary theory , and that interpretation of pragmatism which views the application of the methods of pragmatic instrumentalism to the judicial role as a continuation of Austin 's positivist project . |
| 30 | It reflects Tennyson 's own life and the tragic death of his friend Hallam , ‘ snatched away by sudden death ’ ; a death that had a deep effect on Tennyson as can be seen in this poem . |