Example sentences of "have seen the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A turbulent day in the City has seen the hundred shares index closing down fifty-four point six at twenty-three eleven point one . |
| 2 | The year has seen the virtual completion of the final phase of the rationalisation remits announced shortly after my appointment as Chairman three years ago . |
| 3 | Local residents and the London boroughs of Camden and Islington want the redevelopment shelved until the Commons has seen the delayed bill for the high speed rail link , not now due to be resubmitted until next November . |
| 4 | He has seen the Peliatan dancers on tour , hung his walls with posters of that photogenic island , bought records of gamelan music . |
| 5 | How Basil Cottle 's guide to the French Cathedrals might look — when he has seen the remaining 40 episcopal seats . |
| 6 | The mechanical engineering sector has seen the largest increase , at 15.3 per cent , although pay is 7.3 per cent below the national average . |
| 7 | Agriculture is an extensive activity with dispersed employment , but this sector has seen the largest decline . |
| 8 | The Ugandan capital Kampala has seen the devastating effect that civil war has on a sophisticated engineering scheme . |
| 9 | The past century has seen the standard form of family trust change from the old strict settlement based on successive limited interests and designed to keep specific land in the family , to the discretionary trust of personalty designed to give no interest to anybody for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 10 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
| 11 | It is perhaps ironic that the product which has seen the complete transformation in Apple Computer 's financial status is neither a computer nor a piece of software . |
| 12 | Having said that , this season has seen the best conditions for controlling the weed for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ She has seen the best specialists in Europe . ’ |
| 14 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 15 | As overlooker he has seen the changing face of technology affect looms over the past 47 years . |
| 16 | The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year . |
| 17 | The academic year 1992/3 has seen the first year of fully modularised courses at Napier . |
| 18 | Finally , Pilkingtons in St Helens , thought of as a one-company town , has seen the successful application of float glass technology , but recently large scale redundancy has had devastating consequences on local employment . |
| 19 | As such , I must be one of the few hon. Members who has seen the practical effects of the implementation of legislation such as this , and not simply the ideology behind it . |
| 20 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
| 21 | ‘ I just ca n't believe it may all go to waste , ’ says Alison Knapp , a theatre manager who has seen the whole project through since it was first planned in 1983 . |
| 22 | She has seen the whole thing . |
| 23 | ‘ Self-determination is the right of all people in the world , including Germans , but it only makes sense when one does not lose sight of the concerns of others … we are coming to the end of a century which has seen the special responsibility of Germans for some terrible things . ’ |
| 24 | Former champion and born-again Christian George Foreman — who has seen the sleazy side of life at first hand — warned after Lewis 's brilliant two-round knockout of Razor Ruddock at Earls Court : ‘ Lennox Lewis will win the world title — as long as he does n't get in with the wrong crowd . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was , perhaps , appropriate that the bereaved fiancee and husband should find mutual consolation although no one who has seen the beautiful Barbara Berowne could suppose that the marriage was merely a matter of fraternal duty . ’ |
| 26 | Every , everyone , everyone has seen the little lamb but never seen her bear . |
| 27 | Book publisher Dorling Kindersley has seen the strongest growth . |
| 28 | Partly because , it seems to me , his life is so much more important to him than his work , and he has seen the dreadful consequences of the solitary confinement some writers and artists consider the sine qua non of their trade . |
| 29 | For the past two years Brand has seen the same sports psychologist , John Allsop , who helped Peter Baker earn a cup debut this month . |
| 30 | THE issue of Roman Catholic primary schools in Darlington and the need for more places for Roman Catholic pupils is quite remarkable , not least because it has seen the local MP Mr Michael Fallon who is also the Government 's Schools Minister make a complete turnabout in his approach to the subject . |