Example sentences of "see from [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Are all your expensive goods easily seen from windows ? |
| 6 | It will be seen from tables 1 and 2 that such very slow movements were more frequent than one might expect . |
| 7 | In addition , as we have seen from remarks made by the music and drama specialists , once children have acquired this type of understanding they tend to be very honest about their work , as shown in the following comments from the Head of Art at Redbrook Secondary : |
| 8 | In general , technical description is only appropriate if it illustrates a point in your argument , as can be seen from problems in the following excerpt : The sonnet structure is appropriate to the subject . |
| 9 | It could thus make an additional contribution to the development debate as such , in which at present the cultural dimension is seen from perspectives emanating from western paradigms . |
| 10 | As the nineteenth century gathered pace many more libraries sprang up , as will be seen from examples given at the end of this book . |
| 11 | It was similar in the smaller towns , as can be seen from examples in Sussex and Buckinghamshire . |
| 12 | The monument was raised by the power of the state as a piece of political theatre extravagant enough to be seen from miles and years away , as it was by my father when he passed on the Bapaume Road in the summer of 1944 . |
| 13 | On the other hand the Kingdom might appear like a blaze of lights from a city located on high ground which can be seen from miles around ( Matt. |
| 14 | " Too many ill-presented , ill-written and extremely long-winded scripts are seen from candidates who seem to have little idea even of the basics of sentence construction . " |
| 15 | For the same reason silver could more often be afforded for making large vessels , as one can see from products of the Sumerian , Harappan , Aegean and Classical civilizations . |
| 16 | Ah but it 'll be something few days , you see from cars find out what I 've still got on there yeah let me just see . |