Example sentences of "seen from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 2 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 3 | By tomorrow night ( Friday ) it will be too far south to be easily seen from Britain , as it heads towards its closest point to the Sun on Saturday week . |
| 4 | It adjoins Vela and Pyxis , and is always very low as seen from Britain ; part of it does not rise at all . |
| 5 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 6 | In the ‘ sting ’ ( never easily seen from England and the northern United States , and not at all from Scotland ) Lesath and Shaula give the impression of being a very wide pair , but they are not associated ; of the two Lesath is much the more luminous and remote . |
| 7 | As seen from Japan , United States strength remains formidable in several fields , not least in aerospace and computers . |
| 8 | From Britain and the northern United States Fomalhaut is always very low down ; but when near the zenith , as seen from countries south of the equator , it is very prominent — particularly because there are no other bright stars anywhere near it . |
| 9 | On this analysis the contract will always be governed by the standard conditions attached to the last genuine counter-offer to pass between the parties , although ( as seen from Butler ) this may not actually be the last document to pass between the parties . |
| 10 | Picketing — or , as he has it , ‘ picquetting ’ — he considered an ‘ abominable tyranny ’ , not yet revolution , even as seen from Peel 's Home Office in 1830 , but well on the way to it . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd better not waste any more time , ’ she added , pushing the door open and going through , finding herself at an entrance to the dock area that she had seen from Froebe 's office . |
| 12 | As seen from statistics provided in Table 13 , the pattern of this relationship assumes a " J " shape ( i.e. , lower at second that at first order and inclining progressively thereafter ) in the developed countries , and tends towards a " J " or " U " form in some developing countries for which data are shown . |
| 13 | Fig. 11 North Uist seen from North Lee 23 June 1978 ( A. Currie ) |
| 14 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 15 | Hail and sleet showers swept over the ridge , and the Torridon giants , which rose as distant black battlements when seen from Meallan nan Euan , had changed to seemingly nearer whitewashed walls by the time I 'd dropped and climbed . |
| 16 | In daylight they are only to be seen from ships at sea , when the two smaller petrels appear all dark birds with white rumps as they flutter and dance across the waves . |
| 17 | In a sentence such as ( 1b ) not only does did situate its lexical supplement ( eat ) in time like any other auxiliary , but it also evokes all the time necessary to actualize the infinitive 's lexeme and so produces a representation of an event seen from beginning to end as something that really takes its place in time . |
| 18 | For example , it gave news of ships in peril that could be seen from Fanefjord but not from Elmelunde ; of fires raging in the forest near Magleby that could not be seen at Børre ; of women in labour , requiring the services of a midwife . |
| 19 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |
| 20 | S. O. Letterman has something similar in mind , a re-creation of colonial Africa , as seen from Santa Monica Boulevard . |
| 21 | Red-necked Grebes have been recorded in every month from August to May , but most are seen from October to February . |
| 22 | The reason for raising here the complexities of inflation , and savings as an alternative , is that as can be seen from Appendix 1 . |
| 23 | This was as crushing a demonstration as we have seen from Senna and McLaren-Honda . |
| 24 | Lettering of front panel , as seen from driver 's seat , and ‘ dummy ’ connecting lead from rear of the unit . |
| 25 | Remember that it was designed to be seen from 20ft below and back . |
| 26 | In this case , as can be seen from BRS , all is not lost . |
| 27 | Are all your expensive goods easily seen from windows ? |
| 28 | Seen from close-to , the columns were peeling ; they were also heavily stained with pigeon crap . |
| 29 | This is Lawrence 's , er Lawrence seven overs , nought to thirty-four and we have n't seen from Lewis yet . |
| 30 | Rostov the Great , Moscow , one of the many sites to be seen from Anna Karenina |