Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] see " in BNC.
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1 | It currently trades from 11 stores , including the flagship in Newcastle 's Eldon Square , but the retailer has seen a huge increase in its core market . |
2 | External information provision has seen the advent of end-user searching of external hosts . |
3 | But the pace of change has seen the introduction of controversial new techniques and men prepared to sabotage equipment underground . |
4 | Alongside its work with the increasingly excellent These Immortal Souls , Howard 's guitar has seen recent service with Crime & The City Solution and Lydia Lunch . |
5 | ‘ If an English clerk wants to see the Lord Bruce , then that can be arranged . ’ |
6 | However , it also came to be recognised that a sale can be by description even though the buyer has seen the goods . |
7 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
8 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
9 | But despite the biggest backbench revolt that this Parliament has seen , the Government has dug its heels in a refuses to acknowledge the public call for action . ’ |
10 | However , there are two circumstances in which Parliament has seen a role for the Secretary of State . |
11 | One report says that No. 26 was even more thoroughly rebuilt and re-classified ‘ Type K/2 ’ , ( the writer has seen no photographic evidence , but confirmed in official list ) . |
12 | In its 130-page publication on the subject , an aspiring paperback writer has seen fit to throw in quotes and subtitles taken from famous Beatles ' songs , which is apparently intended ‘ to disrupt the close relationship between the thinkable and speakable and to think the otherwise unspeakable ’ . |
13 | the north which is consistent with the output story and the south west again consistent , south west has seen falls in export orders for s three surveys in a row now erm the north west again export orders flat and again down in Northern Ireland . |
14 | It is hard to trade information : the buyer needs to see the information before being willing to offer a price , and having seen the information then has no incentive to pay for it ! |
15 | THIS election has seen a new phrase enter the common language : ‘ The fabled C2s ’ . |
16 | Fur has seen its best days on the clothing front , although seriously rockin' on the footwear front right now is leopard skin . |
17 | In it 's short life , the Open University has seen tens of thousands of graduates , and literally millions of students … nearly all of them without an academic background . |
18 | Amato has seen his Socialist party split and his government rocked by a huge bribery scandal which has been sweeping the country over the past year . |
19 | What faith has seen , obedience is prepared to sign . |
20 | ‘ Their enthusiasm has seen the project through . |
21 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
22 | Money has seen to that . |
23 | Above all , Labour in the long term wants to see ‘ a united Ireland achieved by consensus and without violence ’ . |
24 | As annual consumption of wine has risen from five to 11 litres per head in the decade between 1977 and 1987 , the high-street off-licence has seen a golden opportunity snatched from under its nose by the supermarkets . |
25 | The farming industry has seen its indebtedness , currently £7.4bn , double in 10 years . |
26 | ‘ Griffin is the most alive , funny and sexual presence this reviewer has seen ’ . |
27 | That 's something the Jockey Club wants to see changed . |
28 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
29 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |
30 | Anyone who bought before the 1988 boom has seen a good return on their investment . |