Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 2 | The entire Met staff climbed up the ladder to the roof to check on the visibility — well , that 's a laugh , we could n't even see the runway , and I do n't suppose the pilots could either . |
| 3 | So we looked at two areas where we 've erm we were both very weak , erm , and I do n't we could even , we could n't even see it with regards this . |
| 4 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 5 | Er I think from Craven 's point of view erm we could n't really see any justification for a strategic exceptions policy in Craven 's case . |
| 6 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 7 | We tried to identify distant hills , but in the dense heat haze that now hung about us , we could only just see Whernside and Penyghent . |
| 8 | It was a dark , wet , misty night , and we could only just see someone ahead of us . |
| 9 | We could then plainly see that the fault was in a ‘ purl ’ stitch , so the faulty needle has to be on the main bed . |
| 10 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 11 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |
| 12 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 13 | Well we ca n't hardly see them now . |
| 14 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 15 | We wo n't even see them , probably . ’ |
| 16 | What is more , we can not even see the processes going on today that might lead to such extinctions . |
| 17 | They are not words for physical things , like objects or parts of the body , but for states or processes that we can not physically see or feel . |
| 18 | We must therefore allow for this even if we can not always see it . |
| 19 | The effect of this is to turn us upside-down and virtually blindfold us , since we can no longer see our eyes , which are hidden in the blank space between the mirrors . |
| 20 | ‘ We can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours , than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of . |
| 21 | Perhaps we can only ever see this when we have been ‘ broken ’ by God , perhaps through failures or disasters that he has allowed us to experience . |