Example sentences of "[vb mod] be seen from " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a good chance of a safe landing , the ground must be seen from at least a thousand feet so that there is time to select a field and assess the wind . |
| 2 | As he remembered the description , the pedestal was a single ruby of gigantic proportions and everything between the pillars was carved in crystal so that the inside of the dome could be seen from any angle . |
| 3 | Easky 's spire could be seen from the back window from many miles away . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On the prairies these stations , with their high steep-pitched roofs and their larger adjacent grain elevators , could be seen from many miles away . |
| 6 | Natural high points were emphasized by mounds , often slightly off the hilltop , so that they could be seen from the valley bottom . |
| 7 | Moreover , mothers may have encouraged children to play on the road surface where they could be seen from the kitchen window instead of on the grass at the front where they could not . |
| 8 | In the early-morning sun the incomparably beautiful Shwe Dagon pagoda with its gold-plated spire could be seen from some miles away . |
| 9 | However , the deliberate positioning of the doors outside the fences which they straddled could be seen from an agriculturalist 's point of view , to assist the separation of animals from domestic areas . |
| 10 | The fuselage , or that part of it that could be seen from above , appeared to be relatively intact . |
| 11 | P/O Atherton was a very experienced pilot , with a second pilot as navigator , so one can not accept that they could be so far off course as to reach the target thirty minutes later , especially as the fires started in the docks by the bombing raid of Blenheims of 59 Squadron could be seen from many miles away . |
| 12 | It could be seen from these that the problems faced by Eastern European museums since the decline of the socialist regimes are strikingly similar . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Firth home , The Towers , could be seen from the village . |
| 15 | His curtain could be seen from the square and it was something worth looking at . |
| 16 | The court took the view that the case raised issues that were sufficiently difficult , as could be seen from the fact that the parties were represented at the hearing by counsel , to justify the decision that the procedure had been an arbitration . |
| 17 | An indication of the strength of the tournament could be seen from the presence of Fiji ( albeit not a first string seven ) and New Zealand provincial champions Canterbury , who defeated Australia in their pool , in the plate competition . |
| 18 | If it 's no I think what we agreed Glynis if it was going to be a stone it could go in the wall where it could be seen from outside . |
| 19 | His distaste for such work may be seen from the fact that Breavman refers to the ( infrequently visited ) lecture rooms of Columbia by saying to Krantz : ‘ Nothing smells more like a slaughterhouse than a graduate seminar . |
| 20 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 21 | Unknown to many primitive societies , it provides a lightning-conductor for envy , as may be seen from the readiness with which gains of pure chance are left outside an otherwise highly egalitarian ( ‘ envious ’ ) system of taxation . |
| 22 | That the potential for collaboration was there may be seen from the final sentence by J. W. Heslop Harrison ( 1948b ) where he says ‘ Still , it must be admitted that much remains to be done , and by many workers ; we give a hearty invitation to others to join us in our labours ’ . |
| 23 | The specimen is preserved in its original calcite ; its lack of distortion may be seen from its perfect five-fold symmetry . |
| 24 | This may be seen from the range of those who went to press on the subject in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 25 | It may be seen from the above that the controversy between ‘ past use ’ and imprint date as a criterion for weeding has still to be resolved . |
| 26 | The effect of contested takeover bids on a company 's share price may be seen from the 139 per cent increase in the price of Rowntree 's shares during the first six months of 1988 — the best performance of any share in the FT-SE 100 index . |
| 27 | You may not feel that this is always necessary with designs that can be knitted automatically , since they will appear on screen in colour , but it is a great memory jogger and , rather then going back into the programme to look at a design , the colours and design may be seen from the printout . |
| 28 | It may be seen from the above equation that the magnetic force is negligible in comparison with the electric force unless the velocity of the electron approaches the velocity of light . |
| 29 | As may be seen from Fig. 3.16(b) the forces on sides 1 and 3 balance each other , whereas those acting upon sides 2 and 4 produce a torque . |
| 30 | The market for control may be seen from this perspective , therefore , as having a negative side-effect in so far as it gives shareholders an opportunity to make unfair gains at the employees ' expense . |