Example sentences of "who could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short and chubby , he once said that he was the only senior Hong Kong official who could see eye-to-eye with the equally diminutive Deng Xiaoping . |
| 2 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 3 | Mitzi Baum enquired to the evident disapproval of Fru Møller , who could see a gift-horse being looked in the mouth at one hundred metres . |
| 4 | Simone Lantain , who lives in London , went to see a healer who could see into past lives . |
| 5 | Their snug cottage looked across the road to the ugliest house on the green , the Rectory , which stood at six o'clock , dead opposite the Youngs across Thrush Green , and was consequently a source of continuous irritation to Edward , the architect , who could see it from every south-facing window of his house . |
| 6 | Lewes and Chichester had continued to grow in dignity , no doubt helped by their lords who could see the tax potential . |
| 7 | He has already brought a little magic into the lives of Bristol Rovers ' fans , who could see nothing to look forward to but relegation from Division One . |
| 8 | Even the thought of this plan seemed dreadful to Mildred , who could see how such a course of action was fraught with danger , but there really was no alternative if she was to help the frog-magician . |
| 9 | The motion-picture industry moved instinctively against a man whose message aroused dissent and , as we have seen , there were critics who could see even as the films were released that they offered humbug and prejudice masquerading as philosophy . |
| 10 | Montini was more far-sighted than anyone else present , certainly more than the many ‘ progressives ’ who could see no further ahead than the next vote ( perhaps that was the influence of the press ) . |
| 11 | Whilst the inconclusive debate between monogenists and polygenists in anthropology , and the influence of Christianity and political liberalism , somewhat tempered the ethnocentrism of scientific and official attitudes , the Darwinian revolution swept away many of the restraints which checked the development of racist views , at least for those who could see no difference between evolution in the natural world and human achievements . |
| 12 | In John 6:15 , there is a curious statement , that ‘ Jesus , who could see why they were about to come and take him by force and make him king , escaped back to the hills by himself . ’ |
| 13 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 14 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 15 | Unless it 's mine , for letting him — ’ She swung round and stared at Charlotte , who could see her jaw muscles straining with the effort of ensuring she did not cry . |
| 16 | ‘ But it was n't Finn , ’ said Lydia , who could see that Betty , with the facts before her , still preferred her own earlier version and intended to believe it . |
| 17 | Edward , who could see Caroline cringing behind the blackboard , lost control . |
| 18 | The few , the old guard , who could see what generations of scholars had endured for , struggled for , thus lightly swept away , were not so happy . |
| 19 | At 09.35 we had a cup of coffee on Hayward 's Heath station , where we met a member of the Bluebell Railway who could see where we were going from our BCRS members . |
| 20 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 21 | I knew several wrinklies who took hours to find their glasses when it came to signing a cheque but who could see a net curtain twitch three streets away . |