Example sentences of "have seen a [noun] " 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 | I bet they have seen a change only he would n't admit it , if they did ! |
| 4 | I bet they have seen a change ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ACES HIGH at North Weald have seen a burst of activity with ex-Swiss Air Force Vampires , having handled four aircraft in six weeks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But instead , recent years have seen a resurgence and the spotlight is once again on vaccination . |
| 10 | Full-time employed workers in Spain have seen a rise in their living standards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most of us have seen a heart in one form or another , whether on television or in school or even at the butchers . |
| 13 | This stands in contrast to most consumer specialised magazine titles which have seen a fall in sales . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Recent years have seen a revival of popular faith in America among Britons and Germans . |
| 16 | The past 10 years have seen a revival in interest . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ They have seen a phenomenon they believe to be smoke , and with nothing but their personal opinion to guide them , they have promptly pronounced its origins as fire . ’ |
| 19 | The '80s have seen a return to a more stable market , with demand and supply in a measure of equilibrium . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | And I have seen them at the mid-day rest hour of twelve to one , I have seen a ploughman come into the stable , shake up the straw in the stall of his leading beast and lie down there and sleep . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This has already happened in microelectronics and the last few years have seen a revolution in this respect . |
| 25 | Well , people have seen a ghost . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We have seen a lot of prayers answered in this area . |
| 28 | ‘ I have seen a lot of things in my life , Elizabeth Burrows , but I never thought to see this . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | I would n't use the word enemy but we have seen a lot of changes in the relationship . |