Example sentences of "can tell [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But who can tell of the future . |
| 2 | Whether it will be better or worse no-one can tell at the moment , but the hands on the reins of administration will be more varied , more democratic and more in tune with the times — at least that 's the theory for this huge volte in the face of what has gone before . |
| 3 | You can tell from the way it gets lapped up . |
| 4 | We can tell from the way it leaps . ’ |
| 5 | Within seconds it stops and I can tell from the direction of the line that the bait is lying in the thick of the roots . |
| 6 | All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position . |
| 7 | A real teacher is unlikely to use an instruction like this , for 11-year-olds : ‘ Find three ways in which you can tell from the drawings ( of spider and crane fly ) that they are the same as each other and three ways in which they are different . ’ |
| 8 | A real teacher is unlikely to use an instruction like this , for 11-year-olds : ‘ Find three ways in which you can tell from the drawings ( of spider and crane fly ) that they are the same as each other and three ways in which they are different . ’ |
| 9 | Approach to the edge of Christian reference was here deliberate , as one can tell from the date Gandalf so carefully gives for the fall of Sauron ( 111 , 230 ) , ‘ the twenty-fifth of March ’ . |
| 10 | You can tell from the slope that this is a typical shoulder shaping albeit in miniature . |
| 11 | But hey , there 's a bounty out , he could do with the loot and you can tell from the narrowing of those famous Eastwood eyes that he 's bored rigid with being a decent human being . |
| 12 | So far as one can tell from the scanty evidence available they had been something short of that . |
| 13 | This was , as you can tell from the name , a bastide , or one of the new towns of the thirteenth century . |
| 14 | Similarly , an intruder immediately knows that the area is occupied , and can tell from the freshness of the scent how recently the owner has been there . |
| 15 | You can tell from the angle , and in any case an adult on his knees blowing through a pipe would have been likely to attract the interest of his neighbours . |
| 16 | I do n't know what I weigh now , but I can tell from the mirror and the clothes that I wear that there is , sadly , more of me than there was . |
| 17 | But you can tell from the colour as well . ’ |
| 18 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |
| 19 | Who ( or what sort of audience ) must the implied addressee(s) be , so far as we can tell from the passage itself ? |
| 20 | And I can confirm ( for the benefit of Glenn , I think it was ) that Howard Wilkinson is not a member either , as far as I can tell from the list . |
| 21 | but you can tell from the amount of aircraft |
| 22 | But of course in terms of partnership , you will have our support and any way we can aid and abet you then we shall do that , erm but you can tell from the questions and comments that we have some distress about the |
| 23 | I can tell by the way people look at him . |
| 24 | I can tell by the way she looks at them . |
| 25 | You can tell by the signs — not , as you might thin , an early primrose opening its frail petals to the strengthening sun , or the tweet of birds in the tree outside the bedroom window , but by the growing pile of work . |
| 26 | I am not very sure what 's wrong with her but I can tell by the way they start discussing the weather when I come into the room that it must be Women 's Trouble . |
| 27 | Saturday Night Fever ‘ You can tell by the way I use my walk , I 'm a woman 's man . ’ |
| 28 | Halloween approacheth , you can tell by the plethora of promotional Budweiser pumpkins and bats hung from every spare bit of Pippin 's ‘ pub ’ on Rush St , so we drowned our mortal fear in the spirit of Chicago ( I WILL ! ) and said a dozen Hail Bloody Marys until we could feel the city 's chill wind no more . |
| 29 | And that , I mean I , I ca n't give you a but they are extremely well used , you can tell by the that 's been . |
| 30 | You can tell by the wings on the back . |