Example sentences of "can not see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow , I can not see either Monte Carlo or Hamburg allowing their status to be lowered without a fight . |
| 2 | We want big changes and we want them quickly , but we can not see clearly enough how to set to work . |
| 3 | In a class buzzing with activity a child with severely defective vision can get left behind or left out because he can not see clearly how to perform the tasks involved . |
| 4 | But in a stressed state , and especially if one is playing helpless , one can not see clearly what the opportunities and risks actually are , and one therefore can not act with discernment and intelligence . |
| 5 | We can not see just what we like . |
| 6 | He can not see over tall buildings , over hills , or through woods , however . |
| 7 | Man carrying load he can not see over . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Do not attempt to carry something up or down the stairs that is heavy , awkward , or restricts your vision , so that you can not see where you are placing your feet . |
| 10 | For this reason , walking becomes rather a difficult experience as you can feel your feet moving along but can not see where they are going . |
| 11 | If they can not see where the time has been recorded the time will not normally be allowed . |
| 12 | The thought , perhaps , is borrowed from Tolkien , whose immortals can not see why men dread death . |
| 13 | He can not see why . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste . |
| 17 | I can not see why P. Harris ( April issue ) is so ‘ staggered ’ at paying £9.50 for twenty-six plants for his tank . |
| 18 | I for my part can not see why , subject to compliance with the proviso , a person should not be liable to be extradited under the terms of the Treaty if he was party to a crime committed in Sweden , such as , for example , the importation of drugs into Sweden , even if he was not himself in Sweden at the time of the importation . |
| 19 | ‘ Undoubtedly if the justices had proceeded to adjudicate on the case either by convicting or by acquitting the defendant , that would have afforded ground for a good plea to the indictment , but I can not see why the fact that the justices at first said they would deal summarily with the case and afterwards changed their minds should be said to have deprived quarter sessions of jurisdiction . |
| 20 | ‘ I can not see why not . |
| 21 | But the fact remains that while local authorities demonstrate their continued inability to use the resources that are already at their disposal , when so many Labour-controlled authorities can not even be bothered to collect the huge sums in uncollected rent , I can not see why the hon. Gentleman should be concerned about the level of rents . |
| 22 | I can not see why the actuary having a liability for an employee , if that employee becomes a deferred pensioner that the actuary having a liability for the fund |
| 23 | The suave star of films including Ryan 's Daughter , The Colditz Story and Ice Cold in Alex said : ‘ I can not see straight ahead . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | William of Germany is an ambitious man , and there have been some stupid individuals on the throne here who can not see further than their noses . |
| 26 | Somehow I can not see that changing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | I really can not see how high interest rates which penalise investment … help in the fight against inflation . ’ |