Example sentences of "have seen a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Socially , we have seen a change of almost revolutionary proportions ; in terms of economics and economic geography , however , the pattern is less clear . |
| 3 | In the same period , investment dropped by a quarter , and some sectors , such as machine tools and forgings , have seen a 30% to 40% fall in domestic orders . |
| 4 | It is easy to sympathise with a traveller who writes : ‘ I have seen a quantity of things here — churches , palaces , statues , fountains and pictures ; and my brain is at the moment like the portfolio of an architect , or a print-shop , or a common-place book . ’ |
| 5 | ACES HIGH at North Weald have seen a burst of activity with ex-Swiss Air Force Vampires , having handled four aircraft in six weeks . |
| 6 | If you have seen a mixture of iron and sulphur and the lumps of sulphur did n't have a shiny polished surfaces that belong to iron and you ca n't make a mirror out of non-metal . |
| 7 | Full-time employed workers in Spain have seen a rise in their living standards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most of us have seen a heart in one form or another , whether on television or in school or even at the butchers . |
| 10 | This stands in contrast to most consumer specialised magazine titles which have seen a fall in sales . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Recent years have seen a revival of popular faith in America among Britons and Germans . |
| 13 | The past 10 years have seen a revival in interest . |
| 14 | At Barclays de Zoete Wedd , whose report on the sector is due out this week , analyst Jane Anscombe points out that there are currently some worries on the advertising revenue front , and that some television people have seen a bit of pressure . |
| 15 | The '80s have seen a return to a more stable market , with demand and supply in a measure of equilibrium . |
| 16 | It says that recent years have seen a transformation in Britain 's manufacturing base , and it condemns those who do not recognise it and continue to run down the achievements of British industry . |
| 17 | I have seen a couple of determined ones peck the leg off their defeated adversary , but most were unable , or did n't think of it , and got caught by the rats during the night . |
| 18 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 19 | They have seen a lot of world now — Rome , London , New York and Paris — and like most girls of their age are not yet discontented with this necessarily tourist oriented relationship with the outside world . |
| 20 | We have seen a lot of prayers answered in this area . |
| 21 | ‘ I have seen a lot of things in my life , Elizabeth Burrows , but I never thought to see this . |
| 22 | Erm , being with the S S P C A , I have seen a lot of very sad pictures of animals , but one of the saddest photographs I saw , quite recently was two monkeys , well they 're primates , we are |
| 23 | I would n't use the word enemy but we have seen a lot of changes in the relationship . |
| 24 | Recent years have seen a succession of second-rate political memoirs illuminated by the self-serving clarity of hindsight , stashed with dutiful acknowledgements to dreary constituency agents , padded out with hack accounts of official visits to one foreign country or another . |
| 25 | The years since the 1978 Act have seen a succession of inner city initiatives . |
| 26 | The past few years have seen a hardening of presidential arteries . |
| 27 | Since then we have seen a host of companies freezing their dividends , with a much smaller proportion cutting them , and then generally under duress . |
| 28 | And during the past two decades of my involvement with the people of the Alto I have seen a discourse on nervos and sickness replace a discourse on angry hunger . |
| 29 | ‘ I have seen a photograph of your husband today . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have seen a photograph in your window , of a society girl reclining on , I suppose , a chaise-longue . |