Example sentences of "can not see " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not see the necessity of the shadow cast by a half-opened drawer in the kitchen table. , It is encouraging to find Fry underlining a point about critical writing — that with a description of a work of art it can be useful to be given an explicit account of how the critic responds . |
| 2 | ‘ But one can not see greatly far down . |
| 3 | If you can not see a suitable field , do n't be afraid to make a well banked circle to look right round the whole area . |
| 4 | While I can not see the attraction , at least it keeps her busy in the evenings . |
| 5 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 6 | Somehow , I can not see either Monte Carlo or Hamburg allowing their status to be lowered without a fight . |
| 7 | Assuming licensees and magistrates act sensibly in seeking and granting approval , I can not see any strong objection to this . |
| 8 | Because of the practical difficulties in overcoming the first of these problems , I can not see , even if the price of the D-to-A converter were a few pence , Class D in its Reeves or Sandler guise making much progress . |
| 9 | I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects . |
| 10 | I can not see how the canon of poetry could avoid being constructed along historical lines , though the problem and implications of canon-formation should be faced , as part of theoretical study . |
| 11 | for he applauded Wyndham Lewis 's alter ego in Tarr , when the latter explained that it is a condition of art ‘ to have no inside , nothing you can not see . |
| 12 | We have made a bid of nearly £700m for a company with a book value of £200m — we 've acknowledged there is some extra worth there , but I can not see the sort of value they are talking about in property . |
| 13 | I can not see that one voting system is intrinsically more fair than another . |
| 14 | Personally I can not see what all the fuss has been about . ’ |
| 15 | As a result of recent changes in the copyright laws , if you can not see the application at the council 's offices then you can ask the planning department to send you a copy of the application and the drawings . |
| 16 | Perhaps they can not see potential at a ground shorn of its wooden stands and surrounded by deprivation . |
| 17 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 18 | I really can not see how high interest rates which penalise investment … help in the fight against inflation . ’ |
| 19 | I can not understand this as I can not see any detrimental effect on the carp . |
| 20 | The thought , perhaps , is borrowed from Tolkien , whose immortals can not see why men dread death . |
| 21 | Forest loom in the FA Cup in the New Year , and if United , who had their lowest League crowd of the season on Saturday and are now only six points ahead of the bottom club City , still can not see the wood for the trees , somebody will be in for the chop . |
| 22 | He can not see why . |
| 23 | A military historian has compared the advantage JSTARS conveys to playing a game of chess in which you can see your opponent 's pieces but he can not see yours . |
| 24 | They can not see the point . |
| 25 | I can not see her but I can summon up her presence . |
| 26 | West Indies , for their part , are simply playing their own game and , since it has made them the most powerful team in the world , can not see why they should deprive themselves of their trump cards just because other countries can not produce trump cards of their own . |
| 27 | Sometimes the road seems to go away from it , sometimes we can not see where it is going , even if there is a purpose to it . |
| 28 | Even Moses , when he asked to see God 's glory , was told , ‘ You can not see my face ; for man shall not see me and live ’ ( Exod. |
| 29 | Badger damage to wheat crops costs Tony Berry at least £1000 a year , yet he can not see any legal way of preventing it . |
| 30 | He can not see why cash which has earned him monthly interest running into five figures should be squandered for the sake of a perceived way of life that is now beset by escalating economic and political pressure . |