Example sentences of "can see the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dotted all over you can see the symbol of Wenceslas IV — a kingfisher and a towel . |
| 2 | ‘ I can see the copper on night duty made himself comfortable , ’ she muttered resentfully . |
| 3 | We can see the top of Skeleton Island from here . |
| 4 | They reckon on a clear day you can see the ruins from O'Connell Street . ’ |
| 5 | And paragraph twelve , erm towards the the middle , erm you can see the sentence in paragraph twelve To my mind , these sites , which were in that top corner lie well beyond the present I 'm so sorry . |
| 6 | If we consider once again the four-fold diagram of the physical , emotional , mental and spiritual planes or levels of the individual — with each plane within and higher than the previous one — we can see the correlation with Hering 's directions of cure ( Figure 3 , p.54 ) . |
| 7 | As for the avant-garde , we can see the development of modernism as precisely an outraged and deliberately esoteric response to the new drive towards total commodification . |
| 8 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 9 | In the mud banks which rise ten feet or so above the water 's edge , you can see the strata of silt deposits brought down each year by the river in the days before the High Dam . |
| 10 | Right now , potato yields are quite variable , right and erm , not only are they variable , but on this time series of yields you can , you can see the effects of technology . |
| 11 | The atmosphere which is evoked in the reading of the poem is one of hopelessness , of resignation , of dark depression and sadness alleviated only by the concluding couplet through which we understand that although oncoming death seems to ‘ take away ’ everything from him , his beloved still remains and can see the glimmers of life through desolation . |
| 12 | ‘ You can see the letters from New York , if you come over to Isobel 's . |
| 13 | With hindsight , he says , he can see the deficiencies in County 's and NatWest 's structure that might have contributed to the Blue Arrow affair . |
| 14 | Thirdly , at a higher level still , we can see the dynamic between thought which is rule-governed and thought which is far less bounded where different forms of reason collide . |
| 15 | If you have the opportunity to visit the workplace in advance you can see the type of clothes which people are wearing and wear something similar . |
| 16 | I make this declaration because one of my aims in this discussion is to show that we do not need to share other people 's beliefs in order to understand them sympathetically : we can see the sense in beliefs even when we are convinced they are based upon false premisses . |
| 17 | ‘ From your flat I suppose you can see the back of Benson 's where Francis was killed . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I can see the back of Benson 's quite clearly . |
| 19 | I look back now and think we are actually still doing that , not in the military aspect , in civvy street , we 've got people , real nice people , you talk to them on the street and you get them at the kill and the hackles go up , you can see the adrenalin pumping round their body , you can see the kind of excitement in their eyes and you can see the terrier men grabbing by the the scruff of the neck , bleeding and then throwing . |
| 20 | You can see the kind of detail you need to record . |
| 21 | From the kitchen window you can see the whole of King 's Cross station spread out underneath you : the massive iron and stone curve of the station building itself , the tatty warehouses and sheds . |
| 22 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 23 | They enjoy sharing their pleasure in their work with visitors and the Showroom is designed so that they can see the work in progress . |
| 24 | At Ashington we can see the areas of ridge and furrow , part of which would be ploughed and planted with cereals and legumes in open fields , while the rest would be fallow and down to grass — this would have been fenced off and grazed by cattle and sheep . |
| 25 | But you can see the suit in O'Hare 's bar . |
| 26 | Visitors can see the mill in operation at any time during normal working hours . |
| 27 | Read Ubu , and you can see the connections with Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , and Ionesco 's The Chairs and The Bald Prima Donna . |
| 28 | From where I write , I can see the village of Wylam , the birthplace of Gorge Stephenson ( ’ Why the safety lamp increased accidents , ’ 10 February , p 362 ) . |
| 29 | A crossroads in the trail marks the site of the old Arthog Railway station and to the right you can see the village of Arthog . |
| 30 | Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live . |