Example sentences of "have seen a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I have seen a — 65 kilo male face a +90 kilo opponent in team category and the outcome was not pretty ! |
| 3 | I have seen a disengaging contestant step forwards straight into the path of an incoming technique . |
| 4 | More than once I have seen a hapless opponent reaching down to scoop a front kick that never comes , and getting caught on the undefended side of the head ! |
| 5 | The LVA claim that pubs converted to management in Winchester in the past have seen a rapid turnover of staff and a substantial decline in trade . |
| 6 | Just as we are on the way out of the desert , it would be plain daft to turn back because someone thinks they have seen a hazy mirage on the horizon . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ MY OFFICIALS looked sick … but somehow I have seen a shaft of light ; I know clearly why I am there . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | In his speech yesterday Mr Lawson dismissed sterling 's troubles as ‘ turbulence ’ of the kind that grown-ups like him , who have seen a thing or two over the years , expect from time to time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If you learn to keep your emotions in check until you are all back in the dressing-room , then at least you will leave the punters thinking that they have seen a professional band who might not be quite ready for a week at the Hammersmith Odeon . |
| 13 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
| 14 | ‘ I have seen a few , you know , ha ! ha ! but yes , that would be excellent . |
| 15 | I have seen a great many sights , you know . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Recent years have seen a revival of popular faith in America among Britons and Germans . |
| 18 | Recent years have seen a growing awareness that most of these assumptions about rape are myths . |
| 19 | As a practising canine behaviourist , I have seen a steady increase in behaviour problems relating to these two factors : geriatric anxiety and problems with the second dog . |
| 20 | ‘ I have seen a photograph of your husband today . ’ |
| 21 | The past few years have seen a hardening of presidential arteries . |
| 22 | Cheque and banking frauds have seen a massive increase in Frankfurt , Berlin and Hamburg . |
| 23 | As a result we have seen a sharp fall in the numbers who sleep rough on our streets . |
| 24 | The last few years have seen a tremendous amount of' reconstruction , both internally and externally , some parts of the building having been perilously close to collapse . |
| 25 | ‘ I have seen a photograph in your window , of a society girl reclining on , I suppose , a chaise-longue . |
| 26 | Or maybe you have seen a crystal ball containing a tiny house which you can shake to produce a brilliant snowstorm ? |
| 27 | Recent decades have seen a remarkable flourishing of Spanish-American fiction . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I have seen a few salmon in my time and caught a few too but this thing was not like a salmon at all . |
| 30 | The Alton office , based in Paper Mill Lane , have seen a marked increase over the past six months in the number of adults looking to change careers , either as a result of job loss , reduction in promotion prospects , or a desire to retrain in a different field . |