Example sentences of "see a [adj] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ralph Ellis says : ‘ Once more we have seen a strong performance from the Stoddard companies , with profit rising 28% on sales 17% higher . |
| 2 | Dr Tydeman said that he had only once seen a patient suffering from the condition and he found it particularly frightening and disturbing . |
| 3 | ‘ You can see a long way from up here , ’ said Simon . |
| 4 | If the basic principles of wound care are not followed with respect for the natural healing process , even though most patients are young and fit , we could occasionally see a disastrous outcome from a wound . |
| 5 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 6 | However , he sees a real threat from future object-oriented environments like IBM/Apple 's Pink and Microsoft 's Cairo , which will both be important , he says . |
| 7 | Nevertheless he made few fundamental changes in the system of government he had inherited , and in one important respect , his active and explicit preference for aristocratic ministers and officials as against commoners , his reign sees a definite regression from what had preceded it ( see above pp. 146–7 ) . |
| 8 | The effect is not dissimilar to that of seeing a major city from the air : zones and landmarks become topographically clear ; boundaries and scale are established . |
| 9 | Seeing a typical villa from a distance , it would have looked to us rather like a Tudor house . |
| 10 | None of the frustration of seeing a great-looking slope from the chairlift and not having the time to ski it because of a lunch date in the next valley ? |
| 11 | To be fair , he did also point out that neither did Yorkshire 's Asian population flock in droves of more than three or four to see the hero from the subcontinent in action ; but then he may be aware , as so many apparently are not , that the prospect of seeing a Hindu lad from Bombay doing well for Yorkshire — as he assuredly will — is not exactly high on the agenda for the Pakistanis who form the greater part of the Asian population in those parts . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've come to see a young man from the place where I work , ’ she said , trying to sound firm and businesslike . |
| 13 | Dave Till , spokesman for the Leukaemia Unit Fund committee , said : ‘ We are getting fed up with delays and we want to see a definite commitment from the health authority . ’ |
| 14 | Although many of the Electronics industry 's difficulties post date the period covered by the survey it is still surprising to see a positive performance from this sector . |
| 15 | They wanted to see a positive statement from the Government which demonstrated our commitment to the future of the railways . |
| 16 | Society chairman Malcolm Smith said his members would now want to see a written reply from the Department of Health confirming the proposed arrangements would not be introduced . |
| 17 | Fortunately he saw a nice couple from the Ministry of Education and was able to guide her over to them . |
| 18 | One day in the early autumn of my lower-sixth-form year , when the damp leaves were already furring the grassy median strips that cleaved the dual carriageways surrounding Varndean Grammar , I saw a familiar figure from where I sat reading in the school library . |
| 19 | I looked into the water and saw a Black Swan from the Park . |
| 20 | In the reflection on the glass door he thought he saw a red glow from his car , and glanced back across the road . |
| 21 | As Foucault ( 1977 ) famously observed , the end of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century saw a massive shift from corporal to carceral punishment . |
| 22 | But if we study the use of religious language in Wordsworth 's poems between 1798 and 1820 we see a gradual change from what might be meant metaphorically or ‘ poetically ’ ( Wordsworth said that he employed the pre-existence theme in the Immortality Ode ‘ as a Poet ’ ) towards language that is used literally and in an orthodox Christian sense . |
| 23 | Now that we understand that the axis of the earth has moved significantly , we realize that today 's stargazers see a different sky from their predecessors . |
| 24 | In the bold decision to set up the Kurdish safe-havens and the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Gulf war , and the decision to intervene militarily in Somalia , we see a significant departure from the principle of absolute sovereignty over domestic matters . |