Example sentences of "[verb] seen [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This action , which has seen a 22% reduction in the workforce in the past twelve months , has brought costs under control and the recent devaluation of the Italian Lira is bringing new export opportunities . |
| 2 | Letts , of course , has moved in the other direction , into book publishing ( Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop has seen a 500% increase in turnover of sales of their books this year , John Harvey-Jones please note ) , but it is well worth stocking Letts ' unbeatable range of the more traditional diaries for which it is so rightly famous . |
| 3 | They endorsed a culture of learning , and the intervening century has seen a knowledge expolosion . |
| 4 | This year has seen a 30% increase in entries from South Africa , bringing its total to 160 . |
| 5 | ‘ Coun Richmond has seen a shopping trolley and complained but that trolley wo n't have been there more than a week , yet when his party were running the council there were ducks nesting in trolleys , ’ said Coun Young . |
| 6 | No one has seen a mountain goat killed in this way , but in Europe , golden eagles regularly knock chamois from cliff ledges in order to feed on their carcasses . |
| 7 | The housebuilding side of the business has seen a 55pc rise in sales in the first five months of the year over the start of 1992 . |
| 8 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 9 | Clinton 's long-time Arkansas-based aide Betsey Wright has seen the alliance work for a dozen years . |
| 10 | A spell of seven games without a win has seen the Goodison club tumble from seventh to 16th place in a month and , Beardsley apart , they rarely looked likely to trouble the supremely confident United , beaten only once in their last eight games . |
| 11 | FILM director Woody Allen has seen the video tape his former lover Mia Farrow made of his daughter claiming he abused her . |
| 12 | H. On the fish docks at Hull a retired trawler skipper , Mr Grant , tells how he has seen the port change in his lifetime . |
| 13 | The acquirer should refuse finally to settle the terms of the warranties until it has seen the disclosure letter and disclosure material . |
| 14 | This year 's strong performance by UK share prices closes a decade which , according to the financial information group , Datastream , has seen the UK stock market climb 266 per cent . |
| 15 | However , the late 1980s has seen the UK housing market enter a much less buoyant phase , with the result that the estate agency sector has entered a period of severe retrenchment . |
| 16 | ‘ With a lot of will we could still be building ships there , ’ said 57-year-old Hughie , who has seen the Whitby shipbuilding industry decline so much that there are now just two people making traditional Yorkshire cobles . |
| 17 | 1992 has seen the project list rise to number 60 and the 12 new projects have been varied and interesting . |
| 18 | One of us ( the teacher in role ? ) has seen the reward poster … |
| 19 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
| 20 | She 'd firmly resisted her mother 's oft-repeated efforts to tempt her with the power-packed vegetable which she 'd seen the singing sailor-man so often greedily guzzle straight from the can . |
| 21 | His eyes looked across to Morse 's : ‘ And he said he 'd seen the Torbay Express at Didcot , did n't he ? |
| 22 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 23 | It was the first time I 'd seen an SS uniform , you know . |
| 24 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 25 | HALFWAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 26 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 27 | You should have seen the way Angy kept it … like a new pin . |
| 28 | In a final hearing it will also have seen the guardian ad litem 's report . |
| 29 | but you must have seen the metal nut in the front ! |
| 30 | Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report . |