Example sentences of "[pers pn] can see [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But I 'm not sure that I 'd be the best person to judge whether I turned to writing by way of compensation or not , though I can see that a serious death like that would lead to a world that was whole being broken .
2 " And I can see that the big chap is really happy here . "
3 In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs .
4 I can see that the third party would have a cogent argument that even if he were liable to compensate the plaintiffs in respect of these matters it would not be just and equitable to require him to make a contribution to the third defendant 's liability .
5 Another university member of a CNAA Committee commented that the CNAA ‘ does a meticulous job as far as I can see and the overall standard of CNAA courses which gain approval is probably much higher than in most universities ’ .
6 You can see that the tall , first-floor windows have been thrown open .
7 If you look at a dissection of the human arm you can see that the string-like tendons which attach to the fingers are joined further back in the arm , to the muscles .
8 Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ?
9 So you can see that the last , this is a vicious circle .
10 Between about 3300 Ma ago and about 2500 Ma ago you can see that the heavy bombardment gave way to a fairly constant light bombardment which persisted until comparatively recent times .
11 Looking at this one you can see that the whole format 's totally different , like the cartoon on the front and the layout .
12 Again from the Judicial Statistics 1989 , the table now looks like this : From these figures we can see that a high proportion of the cases disposed of in 1989 were personal injury actions ( 9,820 out of 12,859 ) hence the attention paid to this category of cases , and that in such cases for every 49 writs issued in 1989 , one case was determined by trial .
13 If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines :
14 With this in mind we can see that the indulgent familiarity of the maternal uncle towards his nephew matches the mother 's generous affection towards her child .
15 ( 8–23 ) ) , we can see that the proportional savings function provides a benchmark case .
16 We can see that the economic aims of Thatcherism have been contradictory to its moral postures .
17 From this we can see that the only pieces that can be affected by the commutator [ F , R ] are those which are in the overlap or are moved into the overlap by F or R .
18 With the benefit of hindsight , we can see that the disappointing results were largely caused by the use of telephone mouthpieces ( in the absence of better microphones ) , and a cutter whose moving parts had too much inertia .
19 Hence , looking at the contracts quoted on Hanson shares in Fig.7.2 , we can see that the highest exercise price is 160p and if the price of Hanson shares rose to 161 p for 4 consecutive trading days or rose to 170p the clearing house would create a new series of options with exercise prices of 180p .
20 For instance , if we look at religious culture , we can see that the monotraumatic theory is outstandingly good for totemism , the totemic aspects of polytheism and many aspects of monotheism .
21 If we look back to Chapter 1 , we can see that the constitutional authorities regarded the British constitution as properly providing for representative government of a liberal-democratic kind .
22 We can see that the social distance between french and English is much less .
23 Having cowed the trade unions , we can see that the next step was to take on the local authorities and the poor .
24 We can see that the widespread strategy of programmed learning is the means by which the genes tell their dim-witted couriers when and what to learn ( how else could an insect reason it out ? ) and then what to do with the knowledge thus obtained .
25 From the equipment , we can see that the Frankish horse soldier was in the earliest stages of development into the armed and armoured knight of later centuries .
26 If g is taken to be the local gravitational acceleration then we can see that the metric connections correspond to the components of the gravitational acceleration .
27 Whilst the examples used come from civil law , we can see that the ideological grasp of those subject to criminal law is removed totally , because ‘ common sense ’ would not allow it a voice .
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