Example sentences of "see an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have , however , seen an advance copy of the report , which makes it clear that Libya has still failed to comply with resolution 731 . |
| 2 | He 's just seen an advance video of the programmes which will be shown from later this month . |
| 3 | Recent years have seen an extraordinary surge of energy among women despite continuing disadvantages : the growth of Well Women Centres , Rape Crisis Lines , the campaign in response to the discrimination against lesbians in Section 25 , the Greenham peace camp , the organisation of professional groups such as Women in Engineering and Women in Publishing , are all manifestations of this energy . |
| 4 | Mr Gummer said last year had seen an 11 per cent recovery in farm incomes , there were encouraging signs for the future and farmers could be cautiously optimistic about the year ahead . |
| 5 | Mr Matthews said that UK food and drink exports to Canada had risen by 15 per cent since 1989 while those to the US had seen an 11 per cent lift . |
| 6 | This decision will not affect any of the other Group Secretarial awards for which we have seen an overall increase in demand internationally . |
| 7 | I mean we have n't seen an awful lot of er Julian Jochim yet but th the two occasions when the ball 's been fed into him he 's shown a brilliant ability to turn with the ball and get at the defenders . |
| 8 | The 1930s saw a moth balling of both human and physical capital , whereas the recent period has seen an actual destruction of physical plant , especially shipbuilding berths , and non-replacement of skills . |
| 9 | THE past few decades have seen an astonishing growth in road traffic almost everywhere . |
| 10 | Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on the importance of inspection as a means of securing quality performance . |
| 11 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 12 | The past decade has seen an increasing amount of guidance from the departments of health and social security about the need for adequate discharge policies . |
| 13 | I 've seen an entire kitchen going red from an Aga . |
| 14 | BY the end of the summer show season there will be few in the farming world who have not seen an Irish Moiled calf , despite the fact they are still a rare breed . |
| 15 | And he succeeded in making a telescope of the sort familiar to everyone today who has seen an elementary book on optics . |
| 16 | Recent years have seen an increased public concern and interest in issues of defence , disarmament and peace . |
| 17 | ( Have you seen an unemployed bookie ? ) |
| 18 | I 've seen an American training video where a policeman 's legs just buckled when one was used on him . |
| 19 | She managed to escape to the kitchen on the pretext of having seen an old friend heading in that direction . |
| 20 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 21 | He told me they had put into Puerto Gallegos to land seven Swedish engineers with spares for Volvo and Saab equipment and had seen an old wooden square-rigger lying at the Navy Yard quay . |
| 22 | I have seen an old lighterman take a loaded barge across the Thames in the Pool of London with a few strokes of his sweep — and a canny use of the tide . |
| 23 | Although these were originally marketed specifically as facsimiles , few collectors have ever seen an original ‘ Sun ’ , and they have since tended to change hands as if they were genuine ( 42 ) . |
| 24 | Some of Croatia 's 600,000 Serbs ( out of a population of 4.6m ) have seen an independent Croatia before . |
| 25 | Thus I have seen an interesting application of group dynamics to the study of a Women 's Institute , and a voluntary social agency studied as an example of a bureaucracy . |
| 26 | Then , in 1983 , as an undergraduate , no longer in the Labour Party , I campaigned in Glasgow for a vigorous Labour Party and the return of 44 MPs , having convinced many Nationalist friends that independence was a side issue , having seen an SNP- ‘ manufactured ’ government tear apart the very fabric of our society . |
| 27 | It is frequently pointed out that , compared with the previous dismal history of negotiations for disarmament , the past twenty-five years have seen an exceptional success in the conclusion of nuclear arms limitation agreements . |
| 28 | Juan had seen an active life . |
| 29 | Am I right in thinking I have seen an earlier and a later version . |
| 30 | The last ten years have seen an enormous expansion of women 's own media : international networks of women 's development information , development manuals for women , films and videos by and about women . |