Example sentences of "one [modal v] see [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if one observes this battle more closely one may see that it is waged around what one might call the ephemera of sex : what is seen , what is said , what is written rather than what is or is not concerned with sexual reality . |
| 2 | In fact , one could see that Mr Lewis 's almost constant proximity to M. Dupont was proving a serious inconvenience to Lord Darlington , who was naturally keen to make close personal contact with this distinguished gentleman before the discussions began . |
| 3 | He was a brave little fellow and one could see that he was trying not to be scared by the Gorgon who towered above him . |
| 4 | Without the pipeline , or with great delay in its completion , one could see that it would be difficult for the USSR to carry on with business as usual . |
| 5 | The visit of the Association was not unlike the coming of a circus : local intellectuals had an opportunity to mingle with the eminent who came in droves , cities competed in the lavishness of their entertainment , and in days before radio and television one could see and hear well known speakers addressing scientific audiences , or sometimes great crowds of working men . |
| 6 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 7 | From this analysis , one can see whether it is possible for tax policy to be employed to offset the existence of market imperfections . |
| 8 | I know that the ‘ black baby ’ campaign was merely an attempt at fund-raising , but when one realizes that this implies that black children were ‘ for sale ’ one can see that this term would be deeply offensive to black Catholics and others . |
| 9 | What the theist claims is that by observing the world as it is , not by attempting to look outside it , one can see that it bears within itself a fundamental self-insufficiency . |
| 10 | One can see that cluster sampling of a city 's schools might result in a complete set of working-class schools with no middle-class ones at all ; or even completely middle-with no working-class . |
| 11 | With hindsight one can see that this was a CD crying out to be made ; four of Villa-Lobo 's magnificent nature pieces make obvious companions . |
| 12 | One can see that Geoff has a point . |
| 13 | Standing on the south bank and looking across the river at the village , one can see that it is still well-wooded with only the church spire and a small number of houses visible through the trees . |
| 14 | One can see that ancient story is used very differently in The Lord of the Rings from the way it is in , say , James Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 15 | Add to the beast 's problems that it was already enfeebled by lack of nutrition , and one can see that its chances of survival were really pretty low . |
| 16 | One can see that BSL invites the omission of specific storage of agent and recipient , since the meaning of the proposition may be included in the verb itself . |
| 17 | One can see that the task of interpreting will share similarities in its processes no matter which languages are being used . |
| 18 | At night they like to ride horses , and in the morning one can see that they have done so because the horses are exhausted … |
| 19 | Although he stops short of locating particular disciplines within this typology , one can see that for example the natural sciences would tend to be hard and pure , engineering would be hard and applied , the arts are likely to be soft , and so on . |
| 20 | One can see that the natural sciences are in the main concerned with the ‘ knowing ’ of physical , chemical and biological ‘ objects ’ in a largely ‘ normal ’ or operational mode . |
| 21 | However , one can see that the relative emphasis on these four factors may vary ( and sometimes conflict ) not only from job to job ( in some cases expertise is of the essence , in others the degree content is virtually irrelevant , and ability and ‘ personality ’ are the key things ) but from one employer and even personnel manager to another . |
| 22 | And , even if one can see that the reasons which caused the principle to be adopted provide no logical justification for such an immunity as the privilege against producing incriminating documents which came into existence before any dispute arose , that immunity holds sway . |
| 23 | Looking back at the decade of 1965–75 , which Bacon and Eltis consider critical for the economic health of the country , one can see that there was no shortage of labour because unemployment increased during this period . |
| 24 | While one can see that a certain number of strategies might be conceived at corporate level before reference to the individual businesses , in general it is very difficult to see how this can be done at corporate headquarters unless the central authority has a careful analysis of the attractiveness and competitive strengths of the major SBUs . |
| 25 | The in fact looking at Hambleton 's figures , one can see that it 's only really it 's only really the top North West , I 'm sorry the top North East . |
| 26 | The other point I would make is the further that the new settlement is from York itself , then the greater would be the dependency upon the motor car , this has been born out by the paper that has been submitted by York City Council in table one where one can see that within the urban area within the O R R the travel to work by car is forty six point four percent , travel to work in the Greater York area at the moment is sixty seven point five percent , further than that I do believe it would be even greater . |
| 27 | After the war , a doctor who gave him a check-up ( incredibly enough not recognising him ) remarked : ‘ One can see that you were n't in the war . ’ |
| 28 | One can see that by the way he 's behaving now . |