Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] seen [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their need for live practice has since seen them support The Paris Angels and Northside , though they admit they 'd be better or suited to a dance crowd . |
| 2 | He has only seen one defeat at the ground . |
| 3 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 4 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 5 | Whereas Leapor seeks to retain freedoms which are threatened with the pruning knife , Duck belongs to a section of rural society which has already seen its rights cut away . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 7 | But if by some extraordinary chance you should one day wander into a forest and catch a glimpse of a Minpin , then hold your breath and thank your lucky stars because up to now , so far as I know , no one excepting Little Billy has ever seen one . |
| 8 | ‘ No machine has ever seen me beaten . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid nobody has ever seen him in church . |
| 10 | ‘ No one has ever seen anything like that before , ’ Dr Saral said . |
| 11 | Every secretary whose word processor refuses to talk to its printer , every technologically-challenged hotel receptionist , every journalist who has ever seen his scoop disappear forever through the hole in the ozone layer can walk a little taller . |
| 12 | For this is the earth as no bird has ever seen it , and no man from any plane . |
| 13 | But then , clearly startled as some thought came to him , a sudden exclamation in his own language rent the air , and , ‘ Would I be right in thinking that no man , known to you or a recent stranger , has ever seen you ready for bed ? ’ he asked . |
| 14 | In Belfast , artist Jack Pakenham has always seen himself as fitting into a nebulous category of people in a no-mans-land , watching the activities of the city but unable to find a true affinity on either side of the often physically invisible diving line . |
| 15 | No reports of flounder from the Nawddach estuary which has probably seen its worst for the species for more than ten years . |
| 16 | Olsen has belief in frank , and has also seen him play U21 successfully . |
| 17 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 18 | The principal reason why the methods of scrutiny in the House of Commons and the House of Lords differ so widely is that the House of Commons has traditionally seen its power as residing in the Chamber itself and in the power to call ministers to account on the floor of the House . |
| 19 | The Ecology Building Society was established in 1981 with just £5,000 , but has now seen its assets grow to almost £4m . |
| 20 | I do n't think Billy has even seen her in over a year . ’ |
| 21 | No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him . ’ |
| 22 | No one who continues to sin has either seen him or knows him . |
| 23 | ICL has meantime seen its share drop from 8.7% in 1989 to 8.4% in 1990 , and duly return to 8.7% in 1991 . |
| 24 | Bureaucracy is a dirty word even among bureaucrats , and in business there is a widespread view that managerial hierarchy kills initiative , crushes creativity , and has therefore seen its day . |
| 25 | She had said , A man I 'm convinced has actually seen what my husband saw . |
| 26 | Everybody is afraid of the phantom — but who has actually seen him ? |
| 27 | A further danger to avoid is agreeing in advance to disclose a particular medical report , or indeed any other sort of expert 's report , before one has actually seen it . |
| 28 | There is a tiny glass bead in the door , one of those squint-through devices where you check the daily rapist , but since the landlord has never seen me before I am content to stand there looking serious , like an estate agent with news . |
| 29 | She was so angry that she ordered my father straight out of the house , and he has never seen her since . |
| 30 | Odd-Knut has never seen one either , but that is less of a surprise as the noise and smell of his dogs frighten most animals away long before he spots them . |