Example sentences of "can [adv] see [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a hell of a lot really , normally you would n't have the vinyl and normally I would think you would only put the tongue and groove not out of the polystyrene behind it and the vinyl , I ca n't see why people want tongue and groove that they go to all those lengths would you ? |
| 2 | I ca n't see even Hitler causing trouble for the Swedish , he needs our iron ore too much . |
| 3 | ‘ Well sir , I think we can rule out natural causes and I ca n't see how dynamite could accidentally get under a table , so unless he committed suicide in a way that endangered the lives of other people , I think we must assume it was murder . |
| 4 | ‘ I simply ca n't see how people can eat tripe , ’ said Betty , shuddering . |
| 5 | Somehow , I can not see either Monte Carlo or Hamburg allowing their status to be lowered without a fight . |
| 6 | I can not see why P. Harris ( April issue ) is so ‘ staggered ’ at paying £9.50 for twenty-six plants for his tank . |
| 7 | The thought , perhaps , is borrowed from Tolkien , whose immortals can not see why men dread death . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We did , of course , over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges , but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I can not see even Miss Kenton having been so forward . |
| 10 | The slick programmes and vast fees may have contributed less than is apparent to those outside government , who can not see how policy conclusions are actually reached . |
| 11 | I find it hard to understand it does not seem feasible to explain I can not see how neo-Darwinism seems inadequate to explain many of the complexities of animal behaviour it is not easy to comprehend how such behaviour could have evolved solely through natural selection It is impossible How could an organ so complex evolve ? |
| 12 | Yes well I , I certainly in this parish , I can not see how people could n't manage to get to classes |
| 13 | At the end of the franchise period he will have nothing to sell , so I can not see how people could go away and borrow the working capital with which to run a business . |
| 14 | Welcome though any new money is for the conservation of important landscape features such as hedges , we can not see how CCW can hope to tackle the huge legacy of hedge deterioration apparent in many parts of Wales with this relatively small sum of money . |
| 15 | By the end , we can easily see why Maud Gonne never wanted him to be wholly rid of his obsession . |
| 16 | But by listing such possibilities we can already see how Bédier 's definition may be serviceable in structuring discussion : identifying a set of three basic traits of the fabliau , each of which may be elaborated upon to produce an informative description of the subject , fabliaux . |
| 17 | But if we look closely at two of the top galleries — d'Offay and Lisson — you can just see how women have been consistently overlooked by them . |
| 18 | A further consequence for linguistic form exists in the examples ( 40 ) to ( 43 ) but , before that , let us turn to our second question ; we can now see why postnominals could often have an " aura " of emphasis , yet without this being clearly and consistently present . |
| 19 | You can now see why Christianity is so radical and so down to earth . |
| 20 | We can now see how pricing and investment decisions are interconnected . |
| 21 | For instance one can readily see how insects adapt themselves to many environments but the larger the animal the less likely it is to survive if the environment drastically changes . |
| 22 | In such inversions of social regard we can again see how movement will tend to confound the police preference for and reliance on a rigidly maintained classificatory world . |
| 23 | I can never see why people refuse to give autographs , for example — it puts such a dampener on things . |