Example sentences of "we have witnessed the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Here , we 've witnessed the splattercore frenzy of Daisy Chainsaw 's Katie Jane Garside , the earthy directness of North London crusty-grunger Lesley of Silverfish .
2 We have witnessed the abolition of the local domestic business rate , the introduction of the non-domestic business rate and the way in which that has concentrated the power of decision-making still further in the hands of Ministers .
3 In the years since those debates we have witnessed the rise of the Labour Party and the specific concern to secure independent working-class representation in the House of Commons .
4 Moreover , as some kind of consciousness of this has filtered through , so we have witnessed the rise of an unincorporated politics of protest as a challenge to the incorporated politics of order and control .
5 We have witnessed the reduction of a great Department of State — the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food — to a branch office in Whitehall .
6 This will take place on Sunday , after we have witnessed the May Day celebrations in Nanking .
7 Kaplan asked the question ‘ Is one costing system good enough ? ’ and in the years that have followed we have witnessed the response .
8 Since then we have witnessed the development first of all of the Keynesian view of the importance of money , followed by the monetarist view which is at odds with the former and is closely associated with the original quantity theory .
9 Hence , in recent years , we have witnessed the publication of the Gulbenkian Report , the report by the APU Working Party on Aesthetic Development , and the setting up of various national arts organizations , such as the National Association for Education in the Arts , all of which have argued the philosophical justification for arts education .
10 This , he suggests , is a time when we have witnessed the ending of the construct of what he calls , ‘ the homogeneity of man ’ which was a product of a special political climate that has now passed .
11 We have witnessed the murder of millions of men , women and children by the US and their allies in Africa , Vietnam , Nicaragua , El Salvador , Grenada , Chile and the list goes on .
12 To complete our disgruntlement , this month here in Moffat we have witnessed the boarding-up of our familiar old , tastefully-designed bronze posting box recessed under the window of the post office and now replaced by one of those monstrous red pillar-boxes , concreted into the pavement immediately in front .
13 With the changing balance of power between the working and middle class , it is suggested that we have witnessed the destruction of traditional codes which have yet to be replaced by a similarly coherent new set :
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