Example sentences of "we can see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , we can see groups moving out from Selsey — Chichester , along the Ouse valley from Lewes and out from Hastings , in search of the more fertile areas , creating at least a parish , village and hamlet pattern that later men could build on . |
| 2 | Just under the surface , though , we can see signs of a willingness to take nothing on trust , to maintain a permanent self-vigilance , and if necessary to overturn the cultural idols . |
| 3 | As we stroll through the mall we can see signs of the opposite problem . |
| 4 | The processes through which we can see texts functioning within a social and cultural context are problematic . |
| 5 | I 'm , I 'm just saying that one way we can see things easily and another way we ca n't , and we do want to check it , we do want to be sure that there is continuity . |
| 6 | We can see part of the answer by looking at how modern DNA molecules cooperate in the chemical factories that are living cells . |
| 7 | Throughout Anne 's reign we can see splits amongst the Tories , for example , with regard to their attitude towards occasional conformity . |
| 8 | Although we can see elements of a critical function ( especially in Leavis ) , the dominant approach of these writers is founded on a base of a certain set of social ideas which it is the duty of higher education to guard and transmit . |
| 9 | They show that we can see patterns of similar markings . |
| 10 | The relevant comment I have heard most often at NCT meetings is that on-one minds a child displaying anti-social behaviour as long as we can see mum is doing something about it ! |
| 11 | We can see bits of jewelry heaped in her night-table drawer . |
| 12 | At the side of the page we can see Jonathon and his little brother , Raymond , painting a football post . |
| 13 | Through the use of these negatives ( engineering and maths ) , we can see students ' construction of an identity as ‘ physicist ’ : a person who is not too remote from reality , but who is at the same time capable of independent and abstract thought — a point we shall return to in Chapter 6 . |
| 14 | When we consider that a typical input/output operation is thousands or millions of times slower than a typical internal operation ( such as the addition of two numbers ) , and that there may be other tasks to which the computer could turn its attention while such an operation is going on , then we can see scope for redesigning the computer in this area . |
| 15 | On the TV in front of us , Miss Kier dances by the roadside and , when we peer closely , we can see butterflies fluttering around her . |
| 16 | Here we can see Sheikh Haj Amin al-Husseini shaking hands with the leader of the SS , there he proudly inspects a volunteer Muslim contingent of the Wehrmacht . |
| 17 | When anger turns to violence we can see people actually withdrawing , actually pulling back , from a sense of involvement in the ideas and values that we are putting forward . |
| 18 | In Russia customers queue for goods ; in this fashionable men 's clothing store , if we adopt the right perspective , we can see rows and rows of shirts queuing up in wait for someone willing to spend a day 's wages on a monogrammed polo shirt . |
| 19 | ‘ From where we are standing we can see examples of the care and attention you have given to the recreation ground and I know all of the clubs who use our facilities thank you for your efforts and hard work . ’ |
| 20 | At the riverside we can see Mr Gould on his stomach out on the ice , pushing himself back from the hole in the river ; people are shouting and running around ; we head down the river towards the narrows and the gorge and my father slips and almost drops me and his breath smells of whisky and food . |
| 21 | Thus , we can see strikes still frequent , but becoming larger in size and longer in duration . |
| 22 | Looking around us we can see affluence and a long-living and healthy population . |
| 23 | Of course , we can see Saddam as a gangster and a bully , the ‘ violent boy from At-Ouja ’ . |
| 24 | In Willis 's use of history , his recognition of the roots of social change , and his orientation to practice , we can see similarities with Robson 's approach . |
| 25 | We can see Enid now . |
| 26 | I mean is is tho though we can see David upside down |
| 27 | We can see hunger , destitution , torture ; we are living in a state of war . |
| 28 | In retrospect , we can see Charles as a man of immense energy ; we know from chronicles that he slept lightly and that he commenced state work very early in the morning , judging litigants in his private chamber . |
| 29 | The reforms are not all bad , and many of us can see opportunities opening up which we are eager to grab . |