Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Magnus 's mother has been to see your mother , ’ she said . |
| 2 | A committee of the International Olympics Committee ( IOC ) has been to see if the changes qualify the country for readmission . |
| 3 | And yes , the youth Diniz Vasquez has been to see me . |
| 4 | For those not au fait with the aims of the Dick-Nixs , they 're an LA band whose purpose in life has been to see their namesake Tricky Dicky re-instated to his true position in life . |
| 5 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 6 | The aim , then , has been to see the problem afresh , and a first reformulation of it was offered in Chapter iii . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 8 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 9 | Princess Anne has been to see the inmates at work … behind bars . |
| 10 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 11 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 12 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 13 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 14 | Babel 's bad times could be turned into art — an art which has been seen to release him , as it were , from his subject , and which has also been seen to hesitate . |
| 15 | As has been seen , partially as a result of Cardinal Cullen 's nineteenth-century reforms , the church became more organized and developed in its numbers of clergy and religious . |
| 16 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 17 | In effect , the insider who reveals the structural formations of a system of power inverts that power and the revelation creates a situation where elements of ‘ anti-structure ’ ( Turner 1969 , 1974 ) now present a version of how things might be constituted ; and what has been seen as solid reality begins to be identified as only one social possibility . |
| 18 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 19 | Nothing much has been seen of the civilian population since we entered the village on the 6th June . |
| 20 | Machinery was much scarcer than land , as has been seen . |
| 21 | The chief symptom of continuing instability was the ‘ scissors crisis ’ which began to affect Smolensk and all other gubernii in 1922 , as has been seen , and reached a climax in 1923 when the scissors opened too widely in favour of manufactured goods . |
| 22 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 23 | The largest army in the world was recruited mainly from the peasantry , and , as has been seen in the provinces , the party still relied heavily in 1922 on ex-army men to act as leaven among the ‘ dark people ’ . |
| 24 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |
| 25 | During the Falklands War , as has been seen , American support , including missiles , materially assisted towards a British victory . |
| 26 | On Europe , as has been seen , Labour was by 1989 much more committed to developments within the Community . |
| 27 | As they became progressively more heavily taxed , that responsibility , instead of going to companies , went to government and government has been seen to do it very badly . |
| 28 | But this goes against all trade union traditions : invoking laws and the courts has been seen as an infringement of worker 's freedom of action and power of collective bargaining . |
| 29 | Inhibition has been seen as the insoluble problem of British movies : it could be represented as the source of their great potential . |
| 30 | The Bundesbank has been seen until now as Europe 's guardian against rapid price increases . |