Example sentences of "we [vb base] seen [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather , about how to try to tell it : since whether any such action of yours succeeds in doing what you want ( giving your tellee a true belief ) will depend as we 've seen on the truth of the beliefs which you also need in order to make you undertake that action . |
| 2 | The thing I do n't like about this amendment is it actually moves us nowhere and we can not after what we 've seen over the summer , move nowhere . |
| 3 | We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way . |
| 4 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |
| 5 | Erm , sir , I want to address the point , if it 's the right time about the level of housing provision the Greater York area in particular , erm that we 've seen round the table here that we have special circumstances applying to York , and to its surrounding area . |
| 6 | We have seen above the image of the " girl putting on her hat " and walking out ( from a unionist ) ; or being an absentee because her " mother is ill constantly " ( from an employer seeking to prove how unreliable women were ) . |
| 7 | Second , we have seen off the threat of a world trade war which would have destroyed any hope of economic recovery . |
| 8 | Majority voting satisfies conditions P , I and D. Where it breaks down is that it does not satisfy U , as we have seen with the example of the voting paradox given earlier . |
| 9 | We have seen over the summer the impact that pictures , in particular , can have — scenes of prison camps in the former Yugoslavia , of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ , of the random bombardment of bread queues or of people burying their dead . |
| 10 | ‘ What we have seen across the board is a failure of justice , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Indeed , one of the most disgraceful things that we have seen in the Chamber this week was the Maastricht agreement which , in terms of social policy , means that the opportunity to do so much to support the family , children and working mothers has been lost . |
| 12 | Nervous controls are not the same as behavioural responses of the kind we have seen in the case of reptiles , which situate themselves at angles to gain the maximum benefit from , or to avoid the worst excesses of , solar radiation . |
| 13 | But the fact that the effects of plate interactions can extend for thousands of kilometres away from plate boundaries , as we have seen in the case of the Tibetan Plateau and central Asia ( see Section 3.4.4.2 ) , shows that this is certainly not the case . |
| 14 | Ants , which may make up to half of the animal biomass in some habitats , are not always involved in such an apparently one-sided relationship with plants , as we have seen in the case of the myrmecophytic epiphytes . |
| 15 | Furthermore , as we have seen in the discussion of Marxist accounts , monocausal explanations do not provide particularly convincing arguments . |
| 16 | Warning off the Iraqis , Premier John Major said : ‘ We have seen in the past that they will lose . |
| 17 | We have seen in the press suggestions about what members of the Committee might say , and we shall consider their proposals with interest . |
| 18 | Phenomena are frequently reported at springs and streams , as Lethbridge noted and as we have seen in the context of visions of fairies and the Virgin Mary . |
| 19 | The house was built in 1573 by the sculptor Leone Leoni , ( an example of whose work we have seen in the Duomo ) . |
| 20 | That relation , as we have seen in the study of the parallelism of greater precision , is a dynamic one which can not be mechanically delineated , but which often yields itself only to patient exegetical probing , each couplet in its own right . |
| 21 | As we have seen in the section on Education , Wordsworth grew up in a mathematical and scientific age , which still adhered to principles discovered in the seventeenth century . |
| 22 | As we have seen from the blueprint of Mrs Thatcher 's Engine Room in table 1 , she now presides over some 160 of the hated things , though not , naturally , in the literal sense of chairing the lot . |
| 23 | We have seen from the illustration of the speech apparatus that there are various empty spaces in the system . |