Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] seen [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
| 32 | The display we 've seen over the last night would have been quite average for Scotland and Northern Ireland but this far south in Oxford it was quite spectacular . |
| 33 | If we can get some action on the ground to tackle rights of way issues , we 'll be able to deal with the kinds of conflicts we 've seen in the past decade . |
| 34 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 35 | We have seen since the early 1980s appeals to the family , attacks on the ‘ moaning Minnies ’ and ‘ whingers ’ who can not make it , and counteractions to permissiveness . |
| 36 | Certainly , we have seen over the last seven years in Britain new educational legislation of a kind which is having a profound influence upon practice in education departments and schools — for better or for worse . |
| 37 | As we have seen in a previous chapter , he argued that such an illusory growth could in fact mask a real decline in values and use-values . |
| 38 | If there is an overcrowding of the scope of the curriculum , however , it is more than matched , as we have seen in the primary illustrations , by the prospective assessment system . |
| 39 | As we have seen in the preceding chapters , language development gives rise to a complex set of interrelated abilities . |
| 40 | As we have seen in the preceding chapter , some of these controls have overtly political agendas . |
| 41 | ‘ I 'm confident we have nothing to fear in the market place provided we continue to aim for the type of quality sheep that we have seen in the best forward at Stoneleigh . ’ |
| 42 | We have seen in the preliminary work that some , perhaps superficial , differences in procedures have been observed to distinguish between the ( again perhaps superficial ) differences of the ways in which these particular teams are organized . |
| 43 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 44 | The aim of this research is to investigate the role of money income targets for a small open economy such as the UK , and their relationship with policies designed to avoid fluctuations in the exchange rate of the magnitude we have seen in the last few years . |
| 45 | He addresses Dame Sirith imperiously , and with a French expression : But Dame Sirith 's final words remind us that this courtliness of expression is located in a fabliau in which the actions and attitudes are as commercial ( pris , mede ) and as crude , sexually , as in any French counterpart : These lines do not quite move into the register of marked language that we have seen in the French fabliaux and shall see in Chaucer 's English fabliaux except in so far as references to women 's thighs do not find a place in the conventional rhetorical portrayal of a courtly lady . |
| 46 | What we have seen in the 1980s is a process by which poverty has been redefined as to do with the ‘ inner city ’ . |
| 47 | As we have seen in the previous chapter , there may be several other processor registers accessible to the programmer apart from the accumulator , for example the MQ register . |
| 48 | As we have seen in the previous chapter , the terms semiotics or semiology are now usually used for the general theory of signs , which in its European structuralist versions has played an enormously important role in modern literary theory . |
| 49 | However , as we have seen in the previous section , there may be an alternative explanation for the breadth-first behaviour . |
| 50 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 51 | Food : As we have seen in an earlier chapter , our physical condition has a great influence on our minds and our emotions — the reverse also being true . |
| 52 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |
| 53 | As we have seen from the above results many common language structures are domain-independent , and to provide comprehensive coverage of these a collocation dictionary must be based on as varied a corpus as possible . |
| 54 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 55 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |
| 56 | But many junior doctors are unhappy about what they have seen of the new deal so far . |