Example sentences of "we have seen a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Bernie and I dragged right across town to a pub in the back of beyond in North London because we 'd seen a gig advertised there featuring a band called The Teenage Rebels . |
| 2 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 3 | We 've seen a couple of their machines briefly , as they passed through the office on their way for testing , they look like competent machines . |
| 4 | The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well we 've already talked briefly and we 've seen a video about Gain Multimedia and how that might enable us to address application requirements in a different way . |
| 7 | And we 've already discovered in the last six months by discreet calls because of something we 've seen a bit funny in er er in er references that have come back or people have been down right honest and said , Sorry er this guy was last time I spoke with him . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've seen a toad all puffed up , ’ Oliver said . |
| 9 | in the day of high technology , is n't it possible to devise some scheme where they can go round and spray camp which leaves an invisible but detective in a way of magnetic or something er marking on the pavements , in New Master this week we 've seen a eruption of white , yellow , green and blue erm spray paint on the pavements , all by different contractors or |
| 10 | as abruptly as if we had seen a ghost . |
| 11 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
| 12 | With that burden around us we have seen a reduction in the number of full-time officers being appointed by the union and which in turn has without any doubt had a detrimental effect upon the members who we serve . |
| 13 | Irrespective of this , we have seen a character wearing a white volupeer earlier in the text : not in the Reeve 's Tale , but Alison , in the Miller 's Tale ( 3241 ) . |
| 14 | Socially , we have seen a change of almost revolutionary proportions ; in terms of economics and economic geography , however , the pattern is less clear . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We have n't set the world alight , but we have seen a selection of the many kinds of birds and animals which choose to make Shetland their home . |
| 17 | We have seen a lot of prayers answered in this area . |
| 18 | I would n't use the word enemy but we have seen a lot of changes in the relationship . |
| 19 | But to our disgust , and as Nigel mentioned , also that we have seen a demise of factory inspectors , and this is borne out by the fact that figures at the present time show that an average workplace can be expected to be visited once in eleven years . |
| 20 | Since then we have seen a host of companies freezing their dividends , with a much smaller proportion cutting them , and then generally under duress . |
| 21 | Recently , however , we have seen a growth in the number of private registered agencies , some of which set out to provide a combination of domestic and personal help to frail elderly people . |
| 22 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
| 23 | And yet , it is within the much maligned football community that we have seen a model of resistance to the break-up of society . |
| 24 | Yet again , we have seen a game where consistent breaches of the law have been committed . |
| 25 | Most of us have seen a heart in one form or another , whether on television or in school or even at the butchers . |