Example sentences of "have seen a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " For young Gedge to say , " he said quietly , " that he has seen a person watching boys playing rounders hardly makes that person a homosexual . |
| 2 | Like all other areas of Great Britain which are involved in agriculture , Scotland has seen a slump of 10 per cent . |
| 3 | This illustrates another rare story : the seer Polyeidos shut in the tomb with Minos 's dead child Glaukos , and reviving him by means of a leaf with which he has seen a snake revive its mate which he had killed . |
| 4 | she has seen a man |
| 5 | No one else has seen a word . |
| 6 | It is not likely that he has seen a pixie for himself . |
| 7 | Besides these major product innovations , the eurobond market has seen a plethora of subsidiary innovations , many of which have been one off or flourished only for a time . |
| 8 | We will continue to increase the Special Constabulary , which has seen a rise in recruitment this year of 10 per cent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Rowe has seen a badger which died of TB . |
| 11 | This action , which has seen a 22% reduction in the workforce in the past twelve months , has brought costs under control and the recent devaluation of the Italian Lira is bringing new export opportunities . |
| 12 | So the 1980s has seen a betrayal of primary health care at the very same time as more and more lip-service has been paid to the idea . |
| 13 | Dai Hudd said : ‘ We would have much preferred that this initiative happened before the downturn in defence markets , which has seen a haemorrhage of jobs from the North-West . |
| 14 | Letts , of course , has moved in the other direction , into book publishing ( Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop has seen a 500% increase in turnover of sales of their books this year , John Harvey-Jones please note ) , but it is well worth stocking Letts ' unbeatable range of the more traditional diaries for which it is so rightly famous . |
| 15 | ‘ Farming has seen a recession , but now that more foreign countries are becoming interested in buying our wool there should be an improvement in the wool cheque . ’ |
| 16 | But first John Major 's , and now Norman Lamont 's , tenure at the Treasury has seen a resumption of a policy that is inimical to both the industry 's and the Government 's long-term interests . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system . |
| 19 | They endorsed a culture of learning , and the intervening century has seen a knowledge expolosion . |
| 20 | This year has seen a 30% increase in entries from South Africa , bringing its total to 160 . |
| 21 | ‘ Coun Richmond has seen a shopping trolley and complained but that trolley wo n't have been there more than a week , yet when his party were running the council there were ducks nesting in trolleys , ’ said Coun Young . |
| 22 | Compared to previous years 1993 has seen a flurry of activity , with a medley of reports and debates on issues such as the economic impacts of hosting international facilities , returns on research and development spending , and various reviews of government expenditure , including the funding of the Government 's own research facilities ( see related item on Warren Spring , p4 ) . |
| 23 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 24 | Appearing during a period that has seen a stream of reassessments of the discovery and development of penicillin , Gordon 's work is his fictional version of the same episode — together with some real events and characters . |
| 25 | THIS year has seen a procession of visiting Senegalese acts . |
| 26 | The accident was one of the worst on the A420 which has seen a catalogue of crashes and a safety campaign from residents . |
| 27 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |
| 28 | The past two or three years has seen a boom in the retreat movement , especially directed retreats . |
| 29 | Since the lifting of sanctions the last couple of years has seen a flood of wines onto our shelves from the Cape — which has some of the most beautiful winelands in the world . |
| 30 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |