Example sentences of "[noun sg] have seen the " in BNC.

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1 External information provision has seen the advent of end-user searching of external hosts .
2 But the pace of change has seen the introduction of controversial new techniques and men prepared to sabotage equipment underground .
3 However , it also came to be recognised that a sale can be by description even though the buyer has seen the goods .
4 ‘ Their enthusiasm has seen the project through .
5 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 .
6 Naomi Wray , an American artist , missionary and founding member of the ICAA has seen the work of Christian artists improve dramatically since the founding of the Association .
7 I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read .
8 The Trident programme had seen the start of the pressure , because the submarine-launched system was the priority programme at the Establishment .
9 A witness had seen the retired steel worker in the middle of the road .
10 It was the first time that many of the sales force had seen the new range , which had taken one year to develop and would be launched into the market place within the next few weeks .
11 The President had seen the polls forecasting heavy defeat and had decided on a high-profile last-ditch effort to free the Iranian hostages .
12 With machinery being used more and more on the farms , the village has seen the number of people employed on the land drastically fall , and is now one of many with commuters travelling further afield to their place of employment .
13 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 .
14 But Darlington borough council has seen the number of vacant properties for all housing applicants fall during the same period from 930 four years ago to 660 in 1992 .
15 The appeal court will only interfere if there is a significant divergence from the norm ; here again they allow the trial judge a margin of appreciation because that judge has seen the parties and heard the evidence .
16 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 .
17 Agriculture is an extensive activity with dispersed employment , but this sector has seen the largest decline .
18 The servant girl had seen the crime and recognized Mr Hyde .
19 The Board of Palatine Ales plc has seen the announcement by Anglo-Welsh Breweries plc of its offer to acquire the company .
20 In his own time the Wanderer has seen the face of England changed :
21 The post-war period had seen the transformation ‘ of Cabinet government into prime Ministerial government ’ .
22 Johnston 's managing director , Iain Bell , said yesterday that the group had seen the recession coming and , having seen it , started putting its house in order around three years ago .
23 Q : I thought you said your husband had seen the Dark Thing ?
24 This decade has seen the old bogey of progressive rock gradually replaced by progressive pop : the site for left-liberal well-meaning and pensiveness has shifted from concept albums and pomp rock , to the three-minute song and pop soul .
25 The past decade has seen the opening or re-opening of more than 100 miles of track and 127 stations .
26 The last decade has seen the growth of orchids and other sub-tropical flowers for export .
27 In attempts to obtain alternative estimates of crime levels but also to gain information on various topics such as fear of crime , attitudes to the police , public views on punishment and impact of crime , the last decade has seen the proliferation of the crime survey in Britain .
28 A separate development has seen the establishment of a variety of arrangements offering advice and perhaps representation to defendants to possession actions in the county court .
29 The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition .
30 The early part of the decade had seen the festival succumb entirely to the boys ' own heavy metal hackery that at that point ruled the roost in certain quarters , most significantly the mind of Jack Barrie , Marquee General Manager and responsible for booking the bands .
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