Example sentences of "can see [that] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We can see that the Government law and order policy has been irrelevant to all crime , including upper-world crime , and indeed that its social and economic policy has caused the crime rate to rise .
2 We can see that the Government 's action is another nasty step towards privatisation , and I hope that both sides in Northern Ireland will unite against it .
3 Looking back I can see that the fall of the tree and the resulting fear were symbolising my anxiety lest the squire should come and catch us raiding his walnut tree .
4 Anyone can see that the breaching of the Berlin Wall is a great symbolic event as well as an actual one .
5 Comparing the commercial audit definition with this one , we can see that the Regularity Audit , the Economy and Efficiency Audit , and the Effectiveness Audit are clearly requirements over and above the attestation of financial statements by commercial auditors .
6 In both circumstances we can see that the caveman 's body must be prepared , following the initial fright or increase in anxiety , for fight and/or flight .
7 It needs tidying up but you can see that the price
8 He is an accomplice , in the sense that everyone who joins another in decoding a linguistic sign co-operates with them in the establishment of its meaning ; but we can see that the sign Iago offers him is just the opposite of what Othello wants to believe , or has believed till now .
9 We can see that the CCCS presented a different picture of youth leisure styles than did the Albemarle Report .
10 But even the most mercenary of foreign firms grows a little queasier about trading with a regime which shoots dead its citizens , and then tries to score popularity points by offering convict labour to foreign factories ; and even the most unreconstructed optimist can see that the resurgence of hard-line Marxists in the Peking power structure is likely to militate against further free-market reforms .
11 The shoes can now be taken off in either order , or we can see that the order of putting them on makes no difference , that is , RL = LR , or R and L commute .
12 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 .
13 And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks .
14 In Table 3.3 we can see that the ratio of banks ' holdings of ‘ base money ’ to total assets/liabilities is rather less than 1 per cent .
15 Thus we can see that the sentence ‘ The window is open ’ can have many different functions , depending on who says it , to whom , and in what situation .
16 Obvious because it stares you in the face as you walk in to the corrie , and also because you can see that the icicle has n't quite formed despite rumours that it does .
17 The File Manager obligingly scans the entire disk and lists all the files beginning with Q. I can see that the ones I want have been installed under D : \WINDOWS\QUOTE , and I can use the File Manager to look at them .
18 If emptiness , like passivity , is seen as an identifying characteristic of womanhood , we can see that the anorexic recognises and even values her own ( potential ) womanhood , while at the same time denying it .
19 You can see that the flames are dying away .
20 You can see that the preparation is long and complex , but now it is virtually over .
21 From various other coins we can see that the pediment had three openings or windows and was decorated with four sculptural figures below a central Medusa head at the apex .
22 I think that patients can see that the reforms are working — there are better clinic hours , with evening and out-of-hours clinics , and improvements in service and the patients ' environment .
23 And the quantitative distinction which is well illustrated by this photograph , which is completely typical let me get the one , hang on right , this is a photograph of a hamster ovum with a hamster sperm just fertilizing it there and you can see that the hamster sperm is a lot smaller than the hamster ovum , and this is totally typical , it 's smaller by many orders of magnitude .
24 Erm I think you can see that the problem with this kind of biographical approach to history is it can degenerate into trivia .
25 We could think of the extremes of its swing to be called states A and B. We can see that the pendulum is not stable in either of these states .
26 By plotting them all on one diagram for comparison ( Fig 4 ) you can see that the touring boat tends to have an upright paddle shaft with the white water paddler much lower and flatter .
27 You can see that the surfaces are littered with boulders , a degree of roughness consistent with radar scattering data .
28 single broken lines with long markings and short gaps with the middle , in the middle of the road is the hazard warning lines , do not cross it unless you can see that the road well ahead is clear .
29 So you 're going to follow through in position one , and erm if the situation allows it and there 's not much traffic on the roundabout and you can see that the exit side is the same width as the entry side , is there anything wrong in following round in that position ?
30 If it 's safe to go through in that position and then you can see that the exit side is clear , okay , there 's nothing wrong with that .
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