Example sentences of "see a [noun] from [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate .
2 We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream .
3 Well if you if you ca n't see a door from the road then that will be the ideal entrance I would have thought .
4 Golden eagles can see a hare from a distance of 3.2km ( 2 miles ) if the light is good .
5 You will have invested time and effort in the activity and you have a vested interest in seeing a return from the investment .
6 ‘ Look out ! ’ warned Billie , seeing a movement from the room behind .
7 All the rafts reached the finish line at Chepstow , but for Herefordshire , it was disappointing to see a crew from the Home Counties win , with a raft from Cheshire in second place .
8 Dr Vincent and Dr Jones delivered the message to Downing Street after Mrs Thatcher refused to see a delegation from the church , a decision which they described as an ‘ affront ’ .
9 I whispered in his ear ‘ I saw a letter from the advertising director of the Sunday Chronicle .
10 " Thanks to Mr. Durnall I see two automatic red ticks for a North sign ( crossed ) and a scale whenever I draw a sketch map , I can not photograph an Himalayan paddy-field without looking for moving water , and whenever I see a settlement from the air I think " site factors " . "
11 ‘ Well , of course , you can go through the usual channels , wait for your original birth certificate to arrive , see a counsellor from the adoption agency — ’
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