Example sentences of "we can [adv] see that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we can easily see that an external contingent relation , no matter how regular a contingent relation it is , wo n't do the trick . |
| 2 | We can thus see that the whole of the rest of the parish could be used for arable . |
| 3 | In C. S. Lewis ' quest for joy , we can clearly see that the void left by his mother 's death was never replaced in his childhood , nor indeed perhaps ever in his whole life . |
| 4 | For example , in the case of Rome in the third century BC , we can calculate that the total amount of silver coinage produced was small in comparison with Rome 's ‘ income ’ at the time , as defined by plunder , tribute and indemnities , and we can thereby see that silver coinage played only a minor role in the economy . |
| 5 | We can not see that power is a means of dealing with fear , of acting and doing in order to gain control over it ; when we are powerless our fears overwhelm us . |
| 6 | We can not see that power can be held in different ways , and that personal and professional relationships that work effectively are often a delicate balance see-sawing on power shifts . |
| 7 | If we reflect further , we can also see that each beatitude addresses the weaknesses of the different types of personality we looked at earlier . |
| 8 | Having seen that double bed tuck has much in common with Fisherman 's Rib , we can also see that the fabric produced in this way will have many features that are the same . |
| 9 | We can also see that Socrates himself can not be regarded merely as an agent of destruction , despite the immediate responsibility of the Socratic impulse for the dissolution of tragedy . |
| 10 | But in the light of what has been said we can also see that it was of especial significance in emancipating , not merely the hand from locomotion , but the brain from its reliance on chemical stimuli mediated by the sense of smell . |
| 11 | Although we have offered a fairly simplistic version of these theories we can still see that even a simplified version is very complex . |
| 12 | We can then see that any person 's inclination to acknowledge obligations and responsibilities to specific relatives is subject to change over time in ways which are patterned and predictable , at least in part . |
| 13 | We can then see that such areas have developed fairly recently , and very largely at the expense of man-made landscapes . |
| 14 | Turning now to impertinent , we can readily see that although the im -is replaceable by zero , it does not qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Also , we can often see that children can use concepts that they can not yet express in English . |
| 20 | We can therefore see that certain aspects of economic practice depend upon the so-called superstructure , as well as the other way round , and Althusser concludes that it is a serious error to neglect this aspect of Marx 's theory . |
| 21 | But we can now see that it is n't like that at all . |
| 22 | We can now see that the organism and the group of organisms are true rivals for the vehicle role in the story , but neither of them is even a candidate for the replicator role . |
| 23 | We can now see that Oulton 's art has followed a wilfully individual path , avoiding too close an association with any fashionable cause , and managing to remain relevant in a trecherous time . |
| 24 | We can now see that it all began in 1979 . |
| 25 | This is probably true ; but we can now see that we must not interpret this word magic too uncritically . |
| 26 | We can now see that the law and order issue can not be divorced from the rest of the Conservative Government 's policies during the Thatcher years . |
| 27 | But we can now see that the apocalyptic interpretation of history emerged from the confrontation with the Greeks about 165 B.C. If II Maccabees reveals a true aspect of the activities of Antiochus IV by stressing the cooperation of Hellenizing Jews , this is something less than the whole truth . |
| 28 | If we continue with our analogy , introduced a moment ago , of the Bank as the monopoly supplier of liquidity and the discount houses as the buyers , we can now see that the discount market is one in which ( by debt sales ) the monopolist is able to determine the position of the demand curve ! |
| 29 | Yet we can now see that Castells 's all-embracing theory could never have been straightforwardly extended to the particular kinds of class and social relations constituting particular societies and localities . |
| 30 | Armed with the suggestions of Harré , Veblen and others we can now see that postmodernism is not simply a product of capital movements or recent developments in the industrial economy such as consumer-led , ‘ flexible ’ , forms of production . |