Example sentences of "can tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time . |
| 2 | But who can tell of the future . |
| 3 | In general this is certainly true , as the experienced eye can tell at a glance whether the style of an ancient Greek coin is that of the archaic or of the later , classical period ; in a similar way one can argue from the change in the type of helmet worn by the goddess Athena on Athenian vases in the period 540–510 BC that Athenian coins depicting the same goddess with the same helmet are unlikely to have been made before that time . |
| 4 | You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And I can tell from a half-hour 's converse with him that he 's in good hands . |
| 7 | Who ( or what sort of audience ) must the implied addressee(s) be , so far as we can tell from the passage itself ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 way it gets lapped up . |
| 11 | We can tell from the way it leaps . ’ |
| 12 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | This was , as you can tell from the name , a bastide , or one of the new towns of the thirteenth century . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But you can tell from the colour as well . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | but you can tell from the amount of aircraft |
| 21 | You can tell from the slope that this is a typical shoulder shaping albeit in miniature . |
| 22 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I can tell by the way people look at him . |
| 25 | I can tell by the way she looks at them . |
| 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 | She is upset by the anger in my voice , I can tell by the way she rattles my cup . |
| 29 | You can tell by the way she falls upon these offerings . |
| 30 | and you can tell by the speed they 're travelling what sp speed the wind is . |