Example sentences of "[noun pl] have seen a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The last twelve months has seen a dramatic turnaround in the local climate . |
| 3 | Cheque and banking frauds have seen a massive increase in Frankfurt , Berlin and Hamburg . |
| 4 | Recent decades have seen a remarkable flourishing of Spanish-American fiction . |
| 5 | The last two decades have seen a remarkable expansion in quantitative history relating to Ireland . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The last twenty years has seen a major effort , theoretical and observational to understand the evolution of animal societies . |
| 9 | The past 10 years has seen a dramatic improvement in Italy 's wine technology led by the latest generation of gifted wine-makers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality . |
| 15 | Recent years have seen a developing concern with individualism and the resulting difficulties surrounding working class political organisation . |
| 16 | Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets . |
| 17 | However , the last few years have seen a major closure programme of deep mines in Wales as elsewhere . |
| 18 | Recent years have seen a great expansion in the number of librarians working in educational institutions and specializing in educational librarianship ; in Britain this was a later development than in the USA , but none the less the libraries of almost all colleges of education , further education and technology are now run by chartered librarians , and some five hundred or more librarians are also found in secondary schools . |
| 19 | Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in research and publications on post-war British history . |
| 20 | The last seven years have seen a considerable expansion of the museum 's activities but have been coloured by the drama and eventual scandal surrounding the controversial restoration by Daniel Goldreyer of one of the museum 's principal paintings , Barnet Newman 's monumental ‘ Who 's afraid of red yellow and blue III ’ which had been vandalised in 1986 ( see p.15 ) . |
| 21 | The past ten years have seen a considerable increase in laboratory facilities . |
| 22 | This is undoubtedly the main reason why the last twenty years have seen a steady increase in controls over the mass media , either by government takeover or by censorship and suppression . |
| 23 | Recent years have seen a growing awareness that most of these assumptions about rape are myths . |
| 24 | It may not be too extreme to suggest that the last few years have seen a quiet revolution in the direction taken by our thinking about writing development and the teaching of writing in schools . |
| 25 | A concerted effort by all departments has seen a considerable reduction in wastage , dramatic improvement in production efficiency and better logistics and distribution . |
| 26 | And the outstanding debt which excludes mortgages has seen a three-fold increase to £40 billion . |
| 27 | And the outstanding debt which excludes mortgages has seen a three-fold increase to £40 billion . |
| 28 | Many women have seen a new and demanding career at midlife as their way to satisfaction , only to find that it becomes a prime cause of problems for their husband . |