Example sentences of "we can see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If we return to the example , we can see that clause ( 2 ) , having failed to disprove the charges , can not be fully understood in version ( a ) until clause ( 3 ) has also been heard .
2 So amidst the doom and gloom that seems to cloud the the African horizon , we can see that aid does work and in the example I 've just given , that it works indeed for children .
3 Yes , and er you have to hurry to see plot two because if people move in late on Tuesday , but erm we can see that monitor development , it er we are we are a quality builder , we 're not a clown .
4 Despite these reservations , we can say something of the landscape of the Saxon Deerhurst estate , because , even without the fine detail , we can see vast areas of arable and pasture in the Severn Valley , areas of woodland and waste to the west over the river , and upland pasture on the Cotswolds to the east in a detached part of the estate .
5 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 ) .
6 Presenting a model of these factors gives no prescriptive power over the language analysis in BSL or speech , but it is a framework whereby we can see separate elements in the task .
7 We can see each other now .
8 ‘ Nor did I. Still , now I 'm here maybe we can see each other from time to time . ’
9 If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling .
10 In this conversation then , we can see two patterns .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Looking through Acts at Paul 's call to evangelise , which culminated in many churches being planted , we can see five stages through which he went .
14 We can see certain similarities between Hayek 's approach and the conservative philosophy of Oakeshott .
15 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 .
16 Now if we just look at the er test statistics for this particular model , right , if we chose say the five percent significance level right , then we can see serial correlation , we 've got a test statistic of two point zero eight , right , we would n't reject the null hypothesis there , the null is that we have no serial correlation , we have uncorrelated errors right , clearly we want uncorrelated errors , right , so we 'd be quite happy with that particular test statistic , it does n't exceed the er five percent critical value .
17 I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted .
18 We can see some sense in this .
19 He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent .
20 Let's just create a window , so we can see both files on the screen at the same time .
21 We can see this idea expressed in international relations between states : the USA could not defeat Vietnam despite the fact that in terms of military equipment the USA had the most powerful weapons .
22 We can see this system of dominant values as operating in two main ways .
23 If we can see this wealth of ideas as stimulations to the imagination rather than as what we have hitherto understood as literal truth we may gain deeper insights into the true nature of our relationship with the living Earth .
24 We can see this kind of order from the way Portia sticks to the command made by her father although he is dead .
25 With hindsight , we can see this loss of faith as one of the formative facts of his life : much of his subsequent thinking is precisely a ‘ search ’ for something to fill the void or , more characteristically , for a way of honestly confronting the void .
26 I hope we can see this time .
27 Already we can see this process at work .
28 We can see this process happening with different plates of the Australian Diamond Firetail finch .
29 I hope that we can see further improvements to the Bill in its later stages .
30 Here , indeed , we can see another facet of the relationship , to analyse which Shakespeare uses all possible permutations of dominant pronouns , approaching it now from this viewpoint , now that , and moving between direct attack and ironic excuse .
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