Example sentences of "[adv] have seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place . |
| 2 | Anyone entering from outside would only have seen Jim with his feet up in front of the fire , reading a thriller . |
| 3 | The desk clerk had gone off duty , but had he seen Kragan , he would only have seen another businessman in an expensive coat returning to his hotel after a night out . |
| 4 | Clutterbuck was an architect manqué himself and would obviously have seen their pattern books , including the one from which this design derives : Chinese and Gothick Architecture Properly Ornamented . |
| 5 | Benn would not have seen the joke . |
| 6 | Such an exceptional manager , she would not have seen the arrival of her son , Christopher , five years ago , as an interruption to her career . |
| 7 | Ellen called warningly , as though I might not have seen the gun . |
| 8 | I may not have seen the race , but I 've had enough people describe both the race and Jackie 's driving to know what a result it was . |
| 9 | Walking through the streets of Cristales to the school where she taught , Sister Teresa de Jesus Ramirez Vanegas may not have seen the recent threats scrawled on the village walls : ‘ Soon Cristales will be in mourning ’ … |
| 10 | The man who rose from the bench seemed to offer a grudging apology , but Byrkin would not have seen the gesture as he scrabbled on the floor for his slice of black bread . |
| 11 | We may not have seen the last of this controversy . |
| 12 | At least out of the small side-windows he would not have seen the effects on the aircraft of those gusting winds . |
| 13 | A British audience will not have seen his work for more than twenty years , although he was included by his earlier art in the Tate Gallery 's ‘ St Ives ’ exhibition of 1985 , and the new works , delicately constructed and monochromatic in colour , will be a happy surprise . |
| 14 | fatet : firstly , the child may not have seen the word written down , and so may be attempting to spell a visually unknown word ; secondly , the d-t error is caused by the similarity of the sounds ( cf. 5(d) below ) . |
| 15 | Twenty years earlier , he could not have seen it in quite the way he does , for even in Repton 's modem living room ( Fig. 7b ) the structural features of a room , together with the figures of its occupants , still dominate the furnishings ; these are sparse , and still tend to have their backs against the wall . |
| 16 | He had seen what he should not have seen . |
| 17 | He had seen what he should not have seen . |
| 18 | However , the results of experiments on members of a number of African tribes whose culture does not include the custom of depicting three-dimensional objects by two-dimensional perspective drawings indicate that the members of those tribes would not have seen Figure 3 as a staircase but as a two-dimensional array of lines . |
| 19 | And it is deeply revealing that recent scholarly research into what tribal art he could have encountered during the time of his first enthusiasm for it has demonstrated that he could not have seen most of the examples which art historians have previously compared and juxtaposed to his paintings.1 |
| 20 | If he had not actually gone into the room he would not have seen Gina ; she was standing against one of the bookcases hidden from him by the open door . |
| 21 | Those of you who do not see your area secretary very often may not have seen the ‘ Banking on the Poor ’ pack . |
| 22 | And with Ligulf , the banner he would rather not have seen . |
| 23 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |
| 24 | Few of us will not have seen its effects . |
| 25 | Erm but you may not have seen er |
| 26 | ‘ It occurred to me that you might not have seen Madeira before , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The man below could not have seen the movement , but he felt some shifting of the air above him , or heard , perhaps , if he had a wild beast 's hearing as he had its gait , the mere rustle of a sleeve against the stone . |
| 28 | You may not have seen |
| 29 | After a period of very stable numbers between 1985–89 , the PCC will thus have seen its workload increase by 66 per cent in only three years , a trend which shows little sign of ending . |
| 30 | Partial implementation of the system has already shown benefits : half the usual number of engineering changes on one new model ; on another , cost savings of $300m thanks to early suggestions from sections of the company that would not normally have seen designs until they had been fixed . |