Example sentences of "can see that [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we can see that their position also is constructed largely by factors which are outside the control of individuals . |
| 2 | But I can see that their motorboat has been damaged . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It gives the magazine the right image when people can see that its representatives care . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I can see that your uncle has been talking to you about us , ’ Sophie said drily , ‘ but you do n't understand . |
| 6 | Add to that the cost or annual holidays and season tickets , and you can see that your expenditure will go through a number of peaks and troughs . |
| 7 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 8 | ‘ I can see that my presence must have come as something of a shock , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Looking back now , I can see that our love was that of a boy for a girl . |
| 10 | I can see that his aim is to make these scenes so powerful that they will go beyond any fictional treatment of the death camps that has ever been tried before : the train roils through the night , the outcome , although certain , appallingly delayed by the shots of the iron wheels and the crude pistons ; the final scene of the five chimneys pouring their shameful smoke over the polish countryside , intercut — this is my contribution — with the smoke rising from the savannah . |