Example sentences of "[vb base] seen a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 've seen a possible future , stretching out from this evening .
2 I 'm pleased to say that in the course of the last six months we 've seen a strong recovery in profits .
3 And I think we 've seen a good number of those erm from the Telegraph , the Mail and the Express , going to the Times .
4 But then , of course , in the last year we 've seen a great deal of each other .
5 What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those .
6 I 've seen a dead man , a man who killed himself , and he looked terrible .
7 Since the word got out on Prehistoric I 've seen a whole bunch of scripts .
8 And even before the pit closure programme started with the increased competition that was taking place inside the mines , the increased productivity erm we 've seen a steady rise in the number of back accidents , erm you know spinal erm related accidents .
9 ‘ We 've seen a big rise in unfurnished lettings over the past few months , ’ she says .
10 You 've seen a big crane have you ?
11 As a result we have seen a sharp fall in the numbers who sleep rough on our streets .
12 These past few years have seen a sharp decline in morality .
13 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 .
14 I 'm a Catholic parent and I have seen a great deal of correspondence and adverse publicity in the local and Catholic press about this new Religious Education programme ‘ Here I Am ’ .
15 However , forums such as ComputerWorld have seen a small firestorm of user complaints in their pages over the proposed return to an Ultrix migration path .
16 We have seen a definite increase in sales . ’
17 Just as we are on the way out of the desert , it would be plain daft to turn back because someone thinks they have seen a hazy mirage on the horizon . ’
18 More than once I have seen a hapless opponent reaching down to scoop a front kick that never comes , and getting caught on the undefended side of the head !
19 Recent years have seen a developing concern with individualism and the resulting difficulties surrounding working class political organisation .
20 erm we have seen a gradual recovery in the last ten days .
21 However , the last few years have seen a major closure programme of deep mines in Wales as elsewhere .
22 Bishop Walsh said : ‘ This has been a week of horror , a week of terror , a week in which we have seen a terrifying escalation of violence , a vicious onslaught of murders , attempted murders and attacks on homes . ’
23 ‘ This has been a week of horror , a week of terror , a week in which we have seen a terrifying escalation of violence , a vicious onslaught of murders , attempted murders and attacks on homes , ’ he added .
24 If you learn to keep your emotions in check until you are all back in the dressing-room , then at least you will leave the punters thinking that they have seen a professional band who might not be quite ready for a week at the Hammersmith Odeon .
25 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 .
26 In recent years we have seen a tremendous growth in interest and the range of activities , ’ said Mr Deighton , whose wife Maura was also a founder .
27 The letter continued : ’ The answers to your specific questions to the Minister , are , therefore , that we have seen a certain amount of information on the cost of the King 's Cross project ’ — we should like to know what that certain amount of information is — ’ and the projected revenues before giving consent to the deposit of the Bill . ’
28 Ralph Ellis says : ‘ Once more we have seen a strong performance from the Stoddard companies , with profit rising 28% on sales 17% higher .
29 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 .
30 The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement .
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