Example sentences of "[indef pn] can see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tell her to sit at the back of the class , otherwise nobody can see over her head . ’ |
| 2 | One can see here how close the relation is between logical empiricism and foundationalism . |
| 3 | One can see even from this very brief review that deaf children 's learning of English does not match that of hearing children . |
| 4 | The title suggests that the suffering is focused on only one protagonist but one can see later how the King causes so much trouble and pain for his relations . |
| 5 | In the defence of mistake ( as in dishonesty , duress , provocation and unwarranted demands ) one can see just how the criminal law rests upon a mixture of subjectivism and objectivism . |
| 6 | One can see why the Urban Programme has not , on the whole , fostered a great deal of innovation . |
| 7 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 8 | One can see why The Ancyent Marinere prejudiced the success of the volume , and the ‘ simplicity ’ of many poems can be seen to emerge from a background of rather precious cleverness . |
| 9 | One can see why ; but was it really to be so ? |
| 10 | But one can see immediately that that is not so : the task of the modules is translation , and so the task of each translation module is therefore different ( translating a poem from English to Chinese is not the same task as translating that poem from Chinese to French ) . |
| 11 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 12 | When this happens , one can see clearly displayed just the convulsions and contortions the lava goes through as it flows : the bands are tightly folded in tortuous patterns . |
| 13 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |
| 14 | With hindsight , one can see how Mr Gorbachev has been preparing the ground for this week 's changes . |
| 15 | One can see how easily this vibrant statement of faith can become muddled with the emotional stage of bargaining that the person is not really dead . |
| 16 | If one remembers that golf is the preferred pastime of a Grand Prix racer , one can see how such a tendency can escalate — check trousers , floppy hats and fringed white shoes |
| 17 | The amount of time and energy staff need to spend in communicating ( and sometimes miscommunicating ) with each other comes over very strongly , and one can see how easily misunderstanding , resentment or perhaps even hostility can develop when individuals work in close proximity under pressure , even where channels of communication may seem open and well defined . |
| 18 | If one considers the transition from our myopic ( static ) world to our optimal ( dynamic ) world , one can see how the dynamic aspects build up . |
| 19 | Since an occasion is a circumstance favouring the occurrence of an event , one can see how occasion can evoke a mediate cause which sets the stage for a subsequent reaction . |
| 20 | In the early industrial period , where there was an expansion of domestic industrial production , one can see very clearly that co-operative strategies were developed to ensure that the domestic industry was viable . |
| 21 | In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy . |
| 22 | On some nights one can see so many of these popularly-called shooting stars that we speak of a star or meteor shower . |
| 23 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 24 | No one can see in . |
| 25 | I told Gary he should have said , ‘ And they must make you so proud ; everyone can see where they got their looks , Mother . ’ |
| 26 | Everyone can see where God 's choice falls , and there is no more room for dispute . |
| 27 | Everyone can see clearly enough with hindsight . |
| 28 | Now everyone can see how unique a Schnauzer I am . |
| 29 | ‘ Everyone can see how anxious I am ’ . |