Example sentences of "we can readily [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 Turning now to impertinent , we can readily see that although the im -is replaceable by zero , it does not qualify as a semantic constituent :
2 Our ideas about rationality , within a pluralistic society , are bound to be complex and fuzzy , but even so we can readily see that certain kinds of rationality are dominant .
3 If we recall what was said earlier regarding the trend in primate evolution which promoted the visual sense over that of smell and prehensile agility over terrestrial quadrupedalism , we can readily see that the definitive adoption of a fully upright posture in man is only the culmination of this much more general evolutionary tendency .
4 Now we can readily see that the evident lack of a culturally defined latency period — by which we really mean one resulting from an enforcement of the incest taboo during childhood — is entirely explicable and , indeed , inevitable in these circumstances .
5 Here , anything that threatens the superego tends to be destructive ; and we can readily see that the externalization of conflict , although defensive for the ego , may be damaging for the culture because the effect of the externalization is to make the culture the locus of the conflict .
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