Example sentences of "can see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As you can see Ace Barton gets his priorities in the proper order . |
| 2 | Zeta has a K-type spectrum , but even with × 20 I can see little colour in it . |
| 3 | Yet we can see little sign of the central powerhouse at optical wavelengths , because a dark swathe of obscuring dust lies right across the galaxy ( Figure 3A ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The humble man , ’ as Iris Murdoch winningly remarked in The Sovereignty of Good ( 1970 ) , ‘ because he sees himself as nothing , can see other things as they are ’ , which sounds like a snug , confident view of humility , far removed from the self-lacerating anxieties about identity and self-image that mark out much of American fiction , or the radical scepticisms of Sartre and his disciples in post-war Paris . |
| 6 | Does that mean I can see other men ? |
| 7 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 8 | And er therefore if you can see mile , half a mile , quarter of a mile up the road , you can see other vehicles slowing down , brake lights coming on . |
| 9 | In this conversation then , we can see two patterns . |
| 10 | There 's a small black and white set , and I can see two people on it , with one of them waving a hand . |
| 11 | Taking in the rest of the Magic Kingdom , you can see many favourites from Disney 's cartoons . |
| 12 | Nearby are the National Trust 's Threave Gardens , and at the Threave Wildfowl Refuge on the River Dee you can see many bird varieties . |
| 13 | As you walk through the streets of Funchal , particularly the small , narrow , side streets , you can see many artisans practising crafts now rarely seen in the mass-production economies of northern Europe and North America . |
| 14 | I can see one bird I can see one |
| 15 | you can see one bird |
| 16 | In front of me I can see one link in the town centre where the improvement would only be twenty one percent . |
| 17 | Come out of the church and to the left you can see one façade of the Clementinum . |
| 18 | The manager can see one month ahead and knows that normal spending would still leave the budget underspent . |
| 19 | tell a lie I can see one spot on your face ! |
| 20 | Mr Hay , whose company made a small profit last year , added : ‘ For my own business I think I can see faint signs of recovery . |
| 21 | ‘ I can see tremendous benefits but hope that realistic targets are set for industry to comply . ’ |
| 22 | I can see real problems er on the A fifty nine for example of traffic coming back into Harrogate or into Knaresborough er from that er from that junction on the A fifty nine . |
| 23 | This is acceptable in the textbook , and can even be made to work on audio , but it is more difficult when we can see real people in a real setting on video . |
| 24 | We can see certain similarities between Hayek 's approach and the conservative philosophy of Oakeshott . |
| 25 | The money markets are wiping out share values , there 'll be a flight of money if Labour gets in and professional people will leave too if they can see better prospects abroad . |
| 26 | Eventually you will reach an area where you can see abandoned ruins of crofters ' huts . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've eyes that can see such things , Ruthie . |
| 28 | Kelly said Blissett had been involved in an ordinary aerial challenge , the kind he can see 200 times in four games a week . |
| 29 | These deficiencies give rise to dissatisfaction in those who can see increasing inequalities in a society where suburbanites and those in the smaller towns and cities of the south of England have experienced large material gains through house-price increases and tax changes . |
| 30 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |