Example sentences of "can [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date . |
| 2 | For example , in the case of Rome in the third century BC , we can calculate that the total amount of silver coinage produced was small in comparison with Rome 's ‘ income ’ at the time , as defined by plunder , tribute and indemnities , and we can thereby see that silver coinage played only a minor role in the economy . |
| 3 | So the hierarchy of colour , I 'm going to just kneel down there I hope you can all see . |
| 4 | And I 'm gon na ask Catherine to stand up so that you can all see who she is . |
| 5 | so that they can all see the pictures . |
| 6 | The distinctions at this high level are relatively unilluminating : we can better see how feeding ecology and feeding behaviour interact if we examine more closely a smaller group of species . |
| 7 | They can obviously see in the future |
| 8 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 9 | ‘ There was a postwar cult ’ , wrote Mrs Le Mesurier in 1931 , ‘ which took it for granted that as the devil has all the good tunes , so youth had all the good qualities ’ , and faced with the giddy enthusiasm of people such as S. F. Hatton , Basil Henriques , James Butterworth , Herbert Casson , H. S. Bryan and Robert Baden-Powell we can perhaps see what she was driving at . |
| 10 | In the creation of some , and the perpetuation of most , of these mevleviyets where the reason for raising the status of the kadilik is not immediately apparent one can perhaps see the operation of a factor which greatly influenced the elaboration of the learned hierarchy , namely the sheer numbers of those seeking posts . |
| 11 | You can only see three of four fields and if they all look bad your morale will suffer . |
| 12 | And angry young men are just older men who have n't grown up and can only see one side of the coin . |
| 13 | Because they can only see what 's straight ahead of them . |
| 14 | The damn window 's wide open across there and I can only see the gramophone . |
| 15 | Gardens are enchanting at night but you can only see the one little bit near you . |
| 16 | I have to look after two dear little boys , but these days I can only see them growing up to behave so cruelly towards women . |
| 17 | You can only see the splendid tapestries inside by appointment . |
| 18 | You can only see your one match , only your two players . |
| 19 | Now , in 1805 , he can only see ‘ glimpses ’ , and fears that in old age nothing will be left . |
| 20 | You can only see interpersonal behaviour and from it interpret the state of the relationship . |
| 21 | he was greatly concerned , too , with getting the correct scale of things , emphasising that the eye can only see at one glance an object which in size is one-third of the distance between the object and that eye ; in other words if you are painting a man six feet high you should be 18 feet away from him . |
| 22 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 23 | The problem is that when I try to play games under Windows , such as the Winchess program on November 's Mega Disk , I can only see half of the screen . |
| 24 | I 'd like to see not cutting cutting costs raise in income and finally I 'd can only see these things coming coming about with the resignation of the five people on the stage tonight . . |
| 25 | Unsurprisingly , viewers in the Serb-held cities in Bosnia are no longer able to receive Sarajevo TV , but can only see the Belgrade version of reality . |
| 26 | Sliding doors are popular choice as they do not take up any space in the room , although , on the other hand , you can only see the contents of half the wardrobe at any one time . |
| 27 | Moreover , few British schools at present include private study periods on the timetable , except for the sixth form , so the teacher knows that his students can only see the sequence in breaks and before and after school , unless he allows time in his own assigned periods with them . |
| 28 | A history which limits ‘ progress ’ to the sphere of a certain conceptualization of individuality can only see the collective associations of conventions and repetitions as regressive ; they represent the manipulative mould of mass society , together with a pseudo-archaism which that society uses to establish its historical credentials . |
| 29 | This night prowler has a low density of cones in its retina and so can only see colour in objects which fill a large part of its field of view . |
| 30 | Like , how do you know what goes on , like with , dolphins , with whales , with all sorts of species of animals , like we do n't know , well we 're so dense we can only see things like this ! |