Example sentences of "[pron] can [not/n't] [be] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The topmost foliage is taller than me and the growth is so dense I can not be seen from the lawn as I dig into the muddy trench which forms an oasis round the stem . |
| 2 | What the X-rays reveal , which can not be seen on the surface , are the soldered joins at the neck , handle and base as well as around the hole for the missing spout . |
| 3 | Similar anxieties exist about the morbidity and mortality of patients who can not be seen within a satisfactory time . |
| 4 | A good receptionist must develop a telephone personality — remembering that you can not be seen , only heard . |
| 5 | ‘ We can not be seen to be throwing more resources at solving this murder , but the truth is , that is what we are doing . ’ |
| 6 | They can not be seen from the village , but are visible from Anglesey across the Menai Strait . |
| 7 | PI : Locks Warranty : In addition to withdrawing keys from locks , the keys must now also be placed where they can not be seen by a would be thief . |
| 8 | keys are withdrawn from the locks fitted to the Home and placed where they can not be seen by anyone intent on making an unauthorised entry |
| 9 | keys are withdrawn from the locks fitted to the Home and placed where they can not be seen by anyone intent on making an unauthorised entry |
| 10 | These eggs are so small they can not be seen with the naked eye . |
| 11 | Furthermore , these circumstances are said to be essentially heterogeneous , so that they can not be seen as aspects of one large contradiction ; each is a contradiction within a particular social totality . |
| 12 | Finding the optimum location is largely a matter of trial and error , but aim to place them where they can not be seen upside-down ( i.e. , with the top end facing a wall ) , or use them as wall-hangings . |
| 13 | These features make the life of reconstituted families very complex ; they can not be seen as enclosed entities in the same way as cereal-packet nuclear families are . |
| 14 | In these circumstances they can not be seen to be sacrificing their independence for that would undermine their claims to being objective in taking decisions at work . |
| 15 | Consideration of particle emission from black holes would seem to suggest that God not only plays dice but also sometimes throws them where they can not be seen . |
| 16 | In the stage production , all the other characters walk to the back of the stage , so they can not be seen , yet Antonio stays at the front , looking into the audience with a depressed expression on his face . |
| 17 | Those opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood maintain that it can not be seen as a legitimate development because it is ‘ closely related to the central doctrines of the Christian faith ’ . |
| 18 | However , it can not be seen as a new problem area . |
| 19 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 20 | Infra-red may be regarded as a form of light to which the human eye is insensitive — that is , it can not be seen but otherwise behaves in practically the same way . |
| 21 | Subsequently , the Galactic Centre has been shown to be astonishingly bright at many wavelengths , although it can not be seen optically because it is obscured by intervening dust . |
| 22 | If the radiation has a wavelength longer than that of red light , it can not be seen , but it can be detected as infra-red and , with increased wavelength , radio radiation . |
| 23 | or sightlessness for what can not be seen |