Example sentences of "have see a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will continue to increase the Special Constabulary , which has seen a rise in recruitment this year of 10 per cent . |
| 2 | He has seen a rise in the numbers of wild species in the area , including butterflies and birds snipe , curlew , green plover , skylark , merlin and kestrel . |
| 3 | The economic recession during which this book has been written has seen a reduction in merger mania but one can almost guarantee that this will be a temporary blip in the inexorable progress towards higher and higher profits . |
| 4 | The past two or three years has seen a boom in the retreat movement , especially directed retreats . |
| 5 | Even more than other industrial countries , America has seen a shift in the age distribution of poverty . |
| 6 | The creation and enhancement of shareholder value is at the core of Group strategy for the long term — 1992 has seen a watershed in the Group 's achievement of this aim . |
| 7 | Analysis by Mr Haraoka 's office explains the recent rise in Japan 's trade surplus as follows : because of the recession at home , Japan has seen a decline in expensive imports of luxuries , which were enormously fashionable during the second half of the 1980s . |
| 8 | It grew to its current size by selling mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s but since then has seen a decline in this business . |
| 9 | ‘ Better image ’ — Increased police presence in Darlington market place has seen a decrease in crime . |
| 10 | On that morning Mrs. Millings was late because she 'd seen a body in the Thames while crossing Southwark Bridge . |
| 11 | He would have seen a judgment in it . |
| 12 | More important is the fact that Aragorn has the stone available to him , and that Sauron ( having seen a hobbit in the same stone ) thinks Aragorn also has the Ring : it is because Aragorn showed himself to Sauron in the palantir that Sauron neglects his guard . |
| 13 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 14 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 15 | Prior to erm Uruguay round negotiations , agriculture was always excluded from the negotiations right , whereas manufactured goods have been in there from the start , and as a result we 've seen a reduction in tariffs right , on manufactured goods that 's not to say that erm , protectionism on manufactured goods has fallen , it has in certain cases but not in all cases . |
| 16 | Continuing down the and P and L account the erm tax charge , you 've seen a note in the erm preliminary results present erm handout is not in fact up as a percentage if you look at the operating er if you look at it in operating terms , there was a tax credit in in extraordinaries last year this therefore had reduced the nineteen ninety one tax charge comparatively , strip it out and tax chargee share was around twenty nine percent . |
| 17 | Once Dot had seen a canary in a bent cage pulled out , black like a little sparrow from the ashes and soot , yet still singing even though its owner was gone . |
| 18 | Spokesman Song Jian noted that areas affected by acid rain had seen a fall in agricultural production , devastation of the environment and serious economic losses . |
| 19 | Irwin had seen a girl in one firm doing corrections , but was told this was not customary . |
| 20 | She had seen a phone in the big hall they called the vestibule . |
| 21 | The war years had seen a boom in cocoa prices : in 1938 cocoa earned £5½ million for 300 000 long tons ; by 1948 , because of disease , production had fallen to 200 000 tons but earnings had increased to £41 million . |
| 22 | From the moment she had met Gioella , Constance had seen a jealousy in her that was frightening . |
| 23 | Jed had seen a street in Westwood that was called Success Avenue , and he 'd told Mitch about it . |
| 24 | She was sure she had seen a hand in the drawer , a hand with little pink nails and a silver ring on one finger . |
| 25 | Every day on his way to school he had seen a brooch in the jeweller 's window , the price showing on a card beside it . |
| 26 | Mr Pinder said he had seen a woman in a wheelchair throw away two tickets for an evening performance at the theatre in Newcastle after she was told no-one would be available to help her on her return journey . |
| 27 | other BES companies , we have seen a school in St John 's Wood , and a company proposing to use investors ' money to breed pedigree mohair producing Angora goats , and to produce an Angora " super goat " through cross-breeding . |
| 28 | Full-time employed workers in Spain have seen a rise in their living standards . |
| 29 | Most of us have seen a heart in one form or another , whether on television or in school or even at the butchers . |
| 30 | This stands in contrast to most consumer specialised magazine titles which have seen a fall in sales . |