Example sentences of "we can [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We ca n't see Charlton Athletic , Chester City or Maidstone United being refused entry , nor would we want them to be , ’ he says . |
| 2 | However , we can already see difficulties for any variation on this approach . |
| 3 | We ca n't really complain of being immediately affected by all the building , and we can still see Oban Bay and the ferries coming and going ( at a distance , it 's true ) , but it 's a bit of a shock to find a major extension to Oban on our doorstep , more or less . |
| 4 | And what we can then see happening is a hardening of specific judgements into presumptions of classes , based now not only on mixed criteria ( for there are held to be cases of ‘ skilfully executed nonsense ’ or ‘ professionally brilliant hokum ’ as well as of ‘ clumsy art ’ or ‘ raw but authentic artistic power ’ ) but also , and crucially , on criteria which are incompatible with the original delimitation by the nature of the practice . |
| 5 | We can now see persona as a socially negotiated , linguistically realised manifestation of " footing " , animated by the speaker and mediated by the speaker 's existing stereotypes ( at least partially shared by other participants in the interaction . ) |
| 6 | We do n't know how many solar systems there are in each galaxy because we can only see stars , not planets , but we earlier used an estimate that there may be 100 billion billion planets in the universe . |
| 7 | 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 ! |