Example sentences of "could [be] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 2 | Details of decorative paintwork were visible on his left side although only the lower portion of the work could be seen clearly . |
| 3 | Neither planet could be seen optically , the star being 30,000 light years distant from the Earth . |
| 4 | But for him too , as for most working-class children ; the closest memories were of grandparents who lived nearby and could be seen frequently . |
| 5 | Visibility was good , but the Newfoundland fog bank could be seen ahead , and Jack was soon flying in between a bank of dense black cloud and fog . |
| 6 | The timber supports of the pier could be seen increasingly . |
| 7 | A keen cricketer , until last year Mr. Collar could be seen regularly umpiring for Medstead . |
| 8 | Miss Logan was slightly alarmed by the sudden presence of this group of nomads , whose flock could be seen lower down the slope , but Miss Fergusson directed her horse straight towards them . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't know dragons could be seen through , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
| 11 | Thus the alternate routes could be seen either as a personality pathway or an experience pathway , which are probably closely interrelated . |
| 12 | The casualty could be seen aground on the Mid Haisbro Sand , lifting slightly in the moderate swell . |
| 13 | She drank from a cup so transparently delicate that its contents could be seen right through the patterned china . |
| 14 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 15 | She did n't want anyone to talk to her so she could be seen not to be alone . |
| 16 | The reaction between sweat , iodine , and starch could be seen about four to five minutes later as fine black dots corresponding to functioning sweat glands ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 17 | Every Summer , visiting day trippers could be seen enviously watching the local people enjoying themselves out on the sand and wondering how the devil they got out there . |
| 18 | A vindictive hatred of Kit Nubbles for saying that he was ‘ an uglier dwarf than could be seen anywhere for a penny ’ causes Quilp to set on Sampson Brass and his sister falsely to incriminate the boy . |
| 19 | Violence at home , terrible as it was , could be seen as little more than a reflection of what was then happening on foreign shores . |
| 20 | More ideologically militant than the British Fascists , although even fewer in numbers , were the groups who could be seen as closest to the nazis in their thought and inspiration . |
| 21 | The link with Dean 's Rebel was deliberate , so that it could be seen almost as a sequel . |
| 22 | This living nightmare lasted for many hours until a sickly daylight showed again and the sun could be seen once more through the haze of dust . |
| 23 | He makes the reasonable point that the upholders of traditional positions might achieve a new plausibility if they could be seen actually arguing for them , rather than merely asserting them . |
| 24 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
| 25 | It could be seen therefore as its own safeguard provided by the people against a particular form of exploitation of the people ; and hence as something to be excepted on pragmatic grounds from the general case for nationalisation or municipalisation . |
| 26 | Yellow-brown leaves spun downwards from high branches , and the calm estuary waters could be seen below , from between the trees . |
| 27 | In what seemed a very short time the plane began to come down and bits of northern Italy could be seen below . |
| 28 | He suggested that a residual motion of the fibres was present in the dark , so that true blacks could be seen only in daylight , by comparison with surrounding objects . |
| 29 | I found it best to suspend the tube containing the eggs as soon as the embryo could be seen inside . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the Services had to live on their very considerable wartime fat until the way ahead could be seen more clearly . |