Example sentences of "can tell from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can tell from the way it gets lapped up . |
| 2 | We can tell from the way it leaps . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position . |
| 5 | A real teacher is unlikely to use an instruction like this , for 11-year-olds : ‘ Find three ways in which you can tell from the drawings ( of spider and crane fly ) that they are the same as each other and three ways in which they are different . ’ |
| 6 | A real teacher is unlikely to use an instruction like this , for 11-year-olds : ‘ Find three ways in which you can tell from the drawings ( of spider and crane fly ) that they are the same as each other and three ways in which they are different . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | You can tell from the slope that this is a typical shoulder shaping albeit in miniature . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So far as one can tell from the scanty evidence available they had been something short of that . |
| 11 | This was , as you can tell from the name , a bastide , or one of the new towns of the thirteenth century . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But you can tell from the colour as well . ’ |
| 16 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |
| 17 | Who ( or what sort of audience ) must the implied addressee(s) be , so far as we can tell from the passage itself ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | but you can tell from the amount of aircraft |
| 20 | But of course in terms of partnership , you will have our support and any way we can aid and abet you then we shall do that , erm but you can tell from the questions and comments that we have some distress about the |