Example sentences of "one can see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 2 | Her powerful and eloquent singing really does not need to be supplemented by low-register Sprechstimme ; one can see the point , but Puccini is near enough to raw melodrama without such mannerism . |
| 3 | Campbell 's hard-working side are still trying to sort out their system , which involves a spare defender and , as far as one can see , a good deal of improvisation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No one can see in . |
| 6 | One can see it by the numbers of new business start-ups ; also by the number of failures which does show there is some healthy risk-taking . |
| 7 | I know that the ‘ black baby ’ campaign was merely an attempt at fund-raising , but when one realizes that this implies that black children were ‘ for sale ’ one can see that this term would be deeply offensive to black Catholics and others . |
| 8 | With hindsight , one can see how Mr Gorbachev has been preparing the ground for this week 's changes . |
| 9 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 10 | In conclusion , one may say that in the ritual life of the traditional Hindu woman one can see the ambivalence of the traditional attitude of Hindu society towards its women and their sexuality . |
| 11 | Here one can see the value of Paisley 's province-wide preaching during the ‘ wilderness years ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It can be argued that American children are not always very intelligent or easy to teach , with catastrophically short attention spans , but one can see the beginnings of a sad muddle even in England , with the publication of a homosexual prayer book giving instructions for a ‘ coming out ’ liturgy next door to prayers for those who already suffer from the American disease . |
| 14 | It is important to realise the fact of ‘ dormitory ’ villages now so widely spread over England ; from any of the Essex towns one can see , as soon as works close down , a long string of bicycles returning to the villages outside … |
| 15 | On any walk through a bog or fen one can see the delicate shoots of the horsetails , looking almost like miniature fir trees , sometimes clustering into dense masses . |
| 16 | What the theist claims is that by observing the world as it is , not by attempting to look outside it , one can see that it bears within itself a fundamental self-insufficiency . |
| 17 | Moreover , in these works one can see the beginnings of Burn 's highly systematised manner of design : the Merchant Maiden and Greenock Custom House had the same strict 1:4 ratio of height to width as Covent Garden while standard scales were , as far as circumstances would allow , adopted for the orders and such things as doorcases . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These folded patterns are characteristic of flow in all kinds of media — one can see similar folds in glaciers , in some kinds of metamorphic rock which have been heated strongly , and whenever immiscible liquids become intermingled . |
| 21 | Now that voluntary agreements among manufacturers have been implemented , washing powders have lists of ingredients displayed on the packaging so one can see , just like foodstuffs , what they are made of . |
| 22 | One can see why the Urban Programme has not , on the whole , fostered a great deal of innovation . |
| 23 | With this in mind one can see , then , that for the purposes of sociological enquiry the form of the interview must always be ultimately referable to its value in the advancement of sociological theory . |
| 24 | One can see from this that random sampling is not at all the same as what we might call ‘ personal choice ’ . |
| 25 | One can see at once the problem here is whether the faculties of , say , medicine and engineering are a good cross-section of the university . |
| 26 | One can see that cluster sampling of a city 's schools might result in a complete set of working-class schools with no middle-class ones at all ; or even completely middle-with no working-class . |
| 27 | Interviewers can not be sure of people 's age or social class before an interview is begun and so one can see the temptation of putting a woman down as under 35 if that is just what you need at the end of a hard day when the woman turns out in fact to be 38 . |
| 28 | One can see this at work in the now widely-used system of allowing each student to provide total nursing care for the patients in her care for a period of time . |
| 29 | That will last nearly 250 years at current consumption and no one can see beyond that . |
| 30 | From its lofty position one can see the parish of his birth , the route by which his mother took him to Ayr , the town of Ayr in which he ran errands as a boy , the harbour from which he went off to sea , and all of the land that was his estate of Orangefield . |