Example sentences of "has seen [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has seen barely a score , worth £2.1 billion ( $3.6 billion ) . |
| 2 | America has seen nearly 400 buy-outs of public companies , worth $182 billion at the end of 1988 , since 1984 when the idea took wing . |
| 3 | The purchase of an interest in either Jaguar or Saab would extend another trend by the two Detroit carmakers which has seen both buy a number of small motor engineering firms in Europe in recent years to acquire technology . |
| 4 | Yet the capricious nature of golf has seen even the mighty Ballesteros humbled in the Championship . |
| 5 | He has seen right from the start that the majority of Germans wanted unification and that the pace of events was dictating a much more rapid move towards unification than most people , either inside , and certainly on the outside , had realised , and he put all his authority into the campaign , campaigned extremely effectively and has had a ringing endorsement . |
| 6 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 7 | I do not know whether the Minister has seen today 's announcement about the loss of 370 jobs at the Volvo plant in Copeland in west Cumbria . |
| 8 | Before that , because change by definition is something no one has seen yet ( despite models that may exist elsewhere ) , it has to be taken at least partially on faith . |
| 9 | ‘ The shadow of the dome of pleasure ’ flashes past on the waves like a sequence of film , while the poet reflects on what he has seen previously , the only thing now remaining being the sense of wonder amidst the conciliation of paradox and the momentary solution of metaphysical inquiry : |
| 10 | For every act of violence quoted by Mr. Cleaver , one could cite an Arab attack , massacre or atrocity , not least during the Intifada which has seen well over 500 Palestinians murdered by his fellow Palestinians . |
| 11 | Since retiring as a Football League assessor in 1981 Howley has seen just eight matches , three of them at Wembley and the last at Middlesbrough as guest of a brewery . |
| 12 | Now that IBM Corp is in long-term decline , evolving into just another big company like Xerox Corp or General Motors Corp that has seen much better days , market-makers are looking for another bellwether to signal the direction of the entire market , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 13 | " It 's only an old house , " Jenny said indifferently , " which has seen much better days . |
| 14 | Since then the Edinburgh Zoo has seen upwards of 50 000 people using it for this purpose in a year . |
| 15 | A relatively old rug that has been well looked after may be in far better condition than a newer item that has seen less considerate use , and some contemporary items are deliberately made to look old by the use of chemical washes ( p. 27 ) . |
| 16 | In the event my Lord , erm , that er your Lordship felt that further guidance was required , there are the two routes that I 've indicated to your Lordship briefly yesterday , there is the route of er seeking some information , if your Lordship felt it 'd be of assistance to you in resolving any doubts that you may have from the and your Lordship has seen yesterday the notice on co-operation which is in and at page eleven thirty two and is also the exhibit |
| 17 | The resultant ‘ Clubturf ’ , and with it the ‘ Natural ’ cricket pitch , started a quiet revolution which to date has seen about 2000 Clubturf installations at county clubs , public schools and village greens . |
| 18 | He has seen about 6000 patients over the years and all except six had suffered from allergies . |
| 19 | But Jerry Brookes of the Gloucestershire Badger Group has seen all too often what it can do to other animals . |
| 20 | No atheist need be surprised that the twentieth century has seen so massive an increase in greed , social disorder and mass violence . |
| 21 | He took the list , that list right there , and he went like this with it — I was sitting across the table — and he said , ‘ For someone who has seen so much war as you have , North , you should understand that I want to end the war on terms that are acceptable to Iran . |
| 22 | Much more of what Augusta has seen so far , though , and the Australians will be laying down challenges again to the United States and Europe . |
| 23 | The result has been that a century which has seen so much development in terms of resources and method in historical research , has also seen a recurrent historical scepticism in theology . |
| 24 | ‘ No officer living who has seen so little service as my Lord Marlborough is so fit for great commands , ’ commented William prophetically after the 40-year-old general had , in the autumn of 1690 , rapidly captured Cork and Kinsale . |
| 25 | Still popular , and made in new materials with plastic or nylon sail , the Peter Powell kite has introduced millions to the sight of its long tube tails following the looping flight pattern , and still , after over 15 years of its production when all else around has seen so much change , is a firm recommendation for anyone wishing to take up stunt flying for the first time . |
| 26 | Our own century has seen so many movements against the conflation of scientific and religious language that we may , on purely philosophical criteria , judge him to have been misguided . |
| 27 | Pearson , England 's former centre-forward , is impressed with what he has seen so far at Valley Parade . |
| 28 | It is particularly appropriate that this first annual review from the Institute and Faculty comes at the end of a year which has seen so much co-operation between our two organisations . |
| 29 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |
| 30 | The close season has seen perhaps less than normal player ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ between the top clubs , with the single most significant appointment being off the field . |