Example sentences of "we have seen [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As our heroes trooped dejectedly from the field , commentator Alan Parry said : ‘ We 've seen a sad , sad night in English football history . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm pleased to say that in the course of the last six months we 've seen a strong recovery in profits . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But then , of course , in the last year we 've seen a great deal of each other . |
| 5 | And I think we 've seen a good number of those erm from the Telegraph , the Mail and the Express , going to the Times . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've seen a big rise in unfurnished lettings over the past few months , ’ she says . |
| 8 | Look … we 've seen the early report on this incident . |
| 9 | Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain . |
| 10 | As has been said , only one in five Trusts have said they 'll honour the terms and conditions of the National Health Service workers and we 've seen the disgraceful decisions that 're being made in . |
| 11 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 12 | At the Nanaimo Hotel after the coal-mine show , two of our engineers who shared a room down the hall knocked on our door one evening just before dusk to ask if we had seen the strange behaviour of the sea-gulls flying outside our hotel room windows , which faced the sea . |
| 13 | Ralph Ellis says : ‘ Once more we have seen a strong performance from the Stoddard companies , with profit rising 28% on sales 17% higher . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | As a result we have seen a sharp fall in the numbers who sleep rough on our streets . |
| 19 | erm we have seen a gradual recovery in the last ten days . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We have seen a definite increase in sales . ’ |
| 22 | Over the past year we have seen a significant change in the Company 's shareholder base with approximately 13 per cent of our shares now held by US investors . |
| 23 | First , we have seen a rapid growth of horrendous proportions in the incidence of this crime . |
| 24 | ‘ We have seen a steady rise with figures just over three times what they were in September for adults seeking advice , ’ Mr. Barnes added . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , with the acquiescence of successive Home Secretaries , but without the support of Parliament , we have seen a growing centralization of police conduct in recent years . |
| 26 | We have seen the deep resentment of the chairmen at Gaitskell 's imposition of the Clow differential , which was an attempt to create a pricing structure which reflected the higher winter peak costs ( pp. 36–8 , above ) . |
| 27 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 28 | I will have more to say about family life in the next chapter , here I note merely that in the last twenty years we have seen the large-scale establishment of the single-parent family , the so-called serial-monogamy syndrome ( divorced people keep getting remarried ) and an endless chain of step-children and step/half brothers and sisters . |
| 29 | Editor , — As training grade doctors participating in the task force process in Trent region , and as executive members of the Junior Doctors Committee , we have seen the intolerable pressures placed on medical staffing numbers in pursuit of the controls on working hours . |
| 30 | As we have seen the confident prediction that the wide disparities in productivity according to firm size would lead to the demise of the small firm sector in manufacturing has been premature . |