Example sentences of "we can see [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours , than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of .
2 So what we can see for the activist nought to three is a very low preference so Irene has come out as a , a very low preference on that , four to six is a low preference so that 's seven to ten is the sort of average so that one 's the average , that one
3 we can see at the bottom of one , three , four bearing in mind that these are the August nineteen ninety two accounts , we see at the top of one , three , four that there have in fact been an adjustment there for the previous year to August nineteen ninety one so that there was in fact an amount of surplus created to the residence of a hundred and eight pounds , eighty P , is that right ?
4 Knowing the fact-presupposing explanation of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ we can see through the question , ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’
5 We can see through the questions and answers about ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ .
6 However , we can see by the diagram it is not just a straight shot from the eyeball into the security judgement .
7 This means that multi-dimensional scaling has applications in many areas of work , as we can see from the following examples .
8 ‘ We 've not been down there yet , ’ said Nigel , ‘ but we can see from the tower . ’
9 We can see from the latter 's evocative landscape , Figure with Birds , that , in Britain at any rate , Surrealism served to refresh the romantic imagination .
10 The other half is that the hips have to bend also , as we can see from the picture of the child on the page opposite .
11 WE can see from the definition of a tackle that : ‘ If the ball carrier is on one knee , or both knees , or is sitting on the ground or is on top of another player who is on the ground , the ball carrier is deemed to have been brought to ground ’ .
12 This hope turned out to be mistaken , but this was because of a new feature of the situation which was barely visible in 1072 : the Hildebrandine vision of a unified administrative system of government under papal direction was the real enemy of the primacy , as we can see from the history of the next fifty years .
13 Strawson himself relies entirely on an intuitive sense of the line between them , but we can see from the history of the social sciences that such intuitions change with time and place .
14 We can see from the annual average figures that sterling 's effective exchange rate has fallen since 1975 ( 1975 = 100 ) and in 1987 it averaged 72.6 — depreciation of 27 per cent .
15 But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved .
16 The same was true even for Gen von Pannwitz and some of his senior German officers in the 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps who , as we can see from the diaries of Count Erwein-Carl zu Eltz [ See KP 62 ] , regarded their fate as inextricably bound up with that of their men , even though they might , like zu Eltz , have found the opportunity to escape .
17 We can see from the Unemployed Flow Survey that the proportion of people finding work within 10 months of registration as job seekers who took temporary jobs varied with the level of unemployment in their area .
18 As we can see from the diagram , the ratio of general government expenditure to GDP fell sharply during the growth years of the mid-to-late 1980s .
19 By the tenth century we can see from the detailed boundary clauses contained in charters that the earlier estate arrangements are already becoming obscure .
20 But we can see from the nineteen eighty Act that .
21 We can see in the American financial world where you end up when risks are underestimated , or not taken account of quickly enough in the results . ’
22 Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own .
23 Here , and at Mudford , the peasants decided in the sixteenth century to enclose the open fields and reallocate land , but there is no dramatic single or well-documented event to explain the picture we can see in the landscape today .
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