Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the remarkable contours of the ground , a fielder in the deep can only just see the tops of the heads of his teammates . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I can just about see the cemetery up there . ’ |
| 3 | The trees grow at such a rate here that you can hardly even see the sea . ’ |
| 4 | This spreadsheet is to be used to keep weekly scores for 16 boys and the problem it posed is that when you want to type in scores for weeks in the second half of the year or for Harry , Ian and John and so on whose names are entered to the right of the spreadsheet , you can no longer see the row and column labels — unless you freeze these titles . |
| 5 | She can no longer see the water maiden . |
| 6 | But too many of them have been weaned on the habit of chopping up the New Testament into bits ( sorting out the sources , contemporary themes and ideologies of Aramaic Palestine or the Hellenistic world ) so that they can no longer see the scriptures as a sacred text aflame with the divine drama . |