Example sentences of "[verb] seen [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she has to offer is precisely what has seen Cliff through 31 years of showbusiness . |
| 2 | The year has seen success in the development and commercialisation of a new series of fast fire glazes for the previously unavailable from less sophisticated systems . |
| 3 | Would it not be a good thing if the Government explained to the people of Wolverhampton , perhaps even by taking an advertisement in the Express and Star , that the gross overspending has continued year after year because Wolverhampton council has seen education in terms of employing people in schools , not in terms of providing good education ? |
| 4 | 1992–93 has seen progress in a number of areas and I would like to highlight these first ; |
| 5 | 1992–93 has seen progress in a number of areas and I would like to highlight these first ; |
| 6 | Rationalisation of production has seen employment at both BSC and ICI decline rapidly . |
| 7 | A radically new urban experience was presented : whereas in the nineteenth century the major urban change was in the formation of tight-knit , high-density conurbations , and between the wars it was in the first flowering of low-density peripheral suburbanization , the second half of the twentieth century has seen metropolitanization as the essential phenomenon . |
| 8 | The past decade has seen labour-shedding on a massive scale . |
| 9 | In addition , there is a single HST Mk 3 saloon , which , since special refitting to include a lounge and dining area , has seen use by both the Queen and the Prime Minister . |
| 10 | Occasionally one or other of the girls left the path to go and pick a mushroom that she 'd seen half-concealed behind a root or stone , or pushing through the surface of the pine-needles . |
| 11 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 12 | As the 50th anniversary of the ending of World War II approaches , an increasing percentage of pensioners will have seen service in the Forces , or are the widows of ex-servicemen . |
| 13 | He could have seen money in this right off and been leading Dr. Favor on , seeing to make about a month 's wages in three days if he kept all the fares ; and why would n't he ? |
| 14 | In Moscow he became a convert to Marxism , having seen Capitalism in action in Europe . |
| 15 | I should have liked to have seen Sligo at the turn of the century , or failing that , in sunny weather . |
| 16 | Shelley was disappointed not to have seen Miguelito at close quarters . |
| 17 | The post-war changes were designed to encourage equality for all , but successive governments appear to have seen education as a vote winner and have made promises which they have failed to keep . |
| 18 | Leoni was an adventurer in the service of Charles V and Phillip II of Spain , and also claimed — rightly , it would appear — to have seen service at the oar of a rowed galley . |
| 19 | I 've seen Donna with him . |
| 20 | I 've seen evidence of his denouncing racial prejudice in others , and it greatly impressed me . |
| 21 | ‘ They 've seen Doctor In The House images — all work , and medical textbooks being pored over . |
| 22 | Few who 've seen Pool of late will doubt their ability to sneak up on the rails , as they did last season , as a surprise late success in the promotion race . |
| 23 | Mummy I 've seen daddy in there ! |
| 24 | She stood where she had seen Scathach in the story , his face now indistinguishable from the young man with whom she travelled . |
| 25 | He told them that none of the servants had seen Putt since the forest ‘ accident ’ . |
| 26 | From the amount of iron signals and other factors it would soon be possible to determine if the land had seen habitation in the past . |
| 27 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 28 | Last year , though , a group led by Eric Norman at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California declared that it had seen evidence for a 17 keV neutrino in radioactive decays of carbon-14 . |
| 29 | At that time the observatory was housed in some rather dilapidated wooden huts which had seen service with the Royal Navy during the war , and these were later replaced by a fine purpose-built building which offered much better accommodation and laboratory facilities . |
| 30 | He had seen service in the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in China before service on the Royal Yacht during King Edward VII 's reign . |