Example sentences of "[noun] have seen a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It currently trades from 11 stores , including the flagship in Newcastle 's Eldon Square , but the retailer has seen a huge increase in its core market . |
| 2 | It is no coincidence that since Sir Peter became Commissioner in 1987 , the relationship between Scotland Yard and London 's 13 Labour authorities has seen a new detente . |
| 3 | THIS election has seen a new phrase enter the common language : ‘ The fabled C2s ’ . |
| 4 | As annual consumption of wine has risen from five to 11 litres per head in the decade between 1977 and 1987 , the high-street off-licence has seen a golden opportunity snatched from under its nose by the supermarkets . |
| 5 | Anyone who bought before the 1988 boom has seen a good return on their investment . |
| 6 | The longer term has seen a greater willingness on the part of the judiciary to challenge the exercise by Ministers and civil servants of their discretionary powers . |
| 7 | The last twelve months has seen a dramatic turnaround in the local climate . |
| 8 | Cheque and banking frauds have seen a massive increase in Frankfurt , Berlin and Hamburg . |
| 9 | In common with most other professional bodies the Institute has seen a substantial increase in the rate of growth of complaints against members in recent years ; in 1991 , we received 20% more complaints than in 1990 . |
| 10 | The highway stretched pale and deserted in the evening sun , yet this was the very same road on which Sharpe had seen a French corps marching that morning . |
| 11 | Pete had seen a fair number of valley mornings , although not so many had been as early as this . |
| 12 | Recent decades have seen a remarkable flourishing of Spanish-American fiction . |
| 13 | The last two decades have seen a remarkable expansion in quantitative history relating to Ireland . |
| 14 | Since March 1990 Mid Glamorgan 's community drug team has seen a progressive increase in the number of users of anabolic steroids attending general needle exchange clinics and has therefore set up a separate service for these users . |
| 15 | Following the reorganisation of the Assessment Services Department , the Field Officer team has seen a few staffing changes . |
| 16 | The period since the end of the Second World War has seen a substantial increase in the proportion of married women engaged in paid work . |
| 17 | The West Midlands has seen a remarkable economic collapse : Birmingham and Coventry were second and third only to London in the growth of new jobs between 1951 and 1961 , but between 1970 and 1983 relative earnings in the West Midlands fell from being the highest to being the lowest of any region . |
| 18 | The postwar period has seen a great rise in ethnicity ; starting in the 1950s with areas peripheral to France and Spain and continuing in the 1960s with Britain 's ‘ Celtic Fringe ’ . |
| 19 | This period has seen a sharp fall in the average rate of growth as compared to the earlier post-war experience . |
| 20 | A recognition of the need to maintain that sector and through it the full diversity of recorded music in Britain is one reason why the last few years has seen a new interest in the record industry from public bodies concerned with culture and with employment . |
| 21 | Though the last twenty years has seen a major step forward in our understanding of the Scottish Reformation and of Scottish society in the sixteenth century , there is still an extraordinary gulf between the personality and the reign of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 22 | The last twenty years has seen a major effort , theoretical and observational to understand the evolution of animal societies . |
| 23 | The past 10 years has seen a dramatic improvement in Italy 's wine technology led by the latest generation of gifted wine-makers . |
| 24 | The past eight years has seen a steady and clever manipulation of the so-called thinking minority : the wheezes and schemes of cheeky pop entrepreneurs like Morley and McLaren have been championed in the rock press and elsewhere as a perfect parallel to the upwardly mobile mentality of the calculator and computer generation , the complete full circle from sixties hippiedom . |
| 25 | Sport & Recreation is a very small part of a huge leisure industry which over the last 20 years has seen a massive increase in both the provision of Local Authority facilities and in participation levels . |
| 26 | In its first full year of operation , the SSL has seen a marked increase in the number of users and in demand for information and other services . |
| 27 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 28 | In the Bellsdyke unit , the last four years have seen a successful and busy day hospital open in a former town centre house , a community health centre ( providing continuing care as well as acute and day hospital ) , warden supervised flats , supported housing projects and addiction outreach teams established . |
| 29 | The last few years have seen a tremendous amount of' reconstruction , both internally and externally , some parts of the building having been perilously close to collapse . |
| 30 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |