Example sentences of "[be] seen from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That this is an important variant of pluralist theory can be seen from Shils 's outline of the network of elites supporting and governing his society . |
| 2 | It will be seen from tables 1 and 2 that such very slow movements were more frequent than one might expect . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Remember that it was designed to be seen from 20ft below and back . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Achernar , the closest really bright star to the south pole , can be seen from Cairo or anywhere in a more southerly latitude ; from New Zealand it is circumpolar . |
| 9 | Blooms of certain species of coccolithophores are so vast that they can be seen from space and , as a result , will provide information on global climatic changes . |
| 10 | Rostov the Great , Moscow , one of the many sites to be seen from Anna Karenina |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In this case , as can be seen from BRS , all is not lost . |
| 13 | The reason for raising here the complexities of inflation , and savings as an alternative , is that as can be seen from Appendix 1 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A similar picture can be seen from Chart 2 which shows how we are perceived in terms of providing ‘ high rates of interest for savings ’ . |
| 16 | This means that it can , in theory , rise from anywhere south of latitude 37 degrees north ; it can be seen from Alexandria , but not from Athens , so providing an early proof that the world is not flat ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As the nineteenth century gathered pace many more libraries sprang up , as will be seen from examples given at the end of this book . |
| 19 | It was similar in the smaller towns , as can be seen from examples in Sussex and Buckinghamshire . |
| 20 | Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 . |
| 21 | As can be seen from Figure 4 the age profile of all ethnic minority groups is typically younger than that of the white population . |
| 22 | As can be seen from Figure 2 , the macula is a minute area in the centre of the retina . |
| 23 | As can be seen from Figure 2 , the normal eye is virtually round , which means that rays of light coming from outside the eye are focused on the retina . |
| 24 | It can be seen from Figure 3 that this is the opposite to myopia . |
| 25 | The problems that this will create can be seen from Figure 4.4 , which shows a diamond moving across two receptive fields , one located above the other . |
| 26 | It will be seen from Figure 2.3 that separate registers for partial product and multiplier are unnecessary . |
| 27 | All six bits are used to represent most symbols in the character set , but it can be seen from Figure 2.19 that the digits 0 to 9 are represented by the four numeric digits , with the zone bits set to " 00 " . |
| 28 | It can be seen from Figure 2.21 that the bit patterns representing the digits 0 to 9 as characters all have binary " 1111 " in the left-hand four bits of the byte , with patterns " 0000 " for decimal 0 to " 1001 " for decimal 9 in the right-hand four bits . |
| 29 | In 1982 , over 40 per cent of the people labelled as of Asian or West Indian origin were , in fact , born in this country although the proportion varies from group to group as can be seen from figure 5.1 . |
| 30 | There have , during the twentieth century , been considerable changes in the proportions of married people in the population , as can be seen from figure 6.4 . |