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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 8 | They might already have seen her . |
| 9 | That is money which the carmakers would sooner have seen invested in the business . |
| 10 | It 's likely that most of them wo n't ever have seen a microlight . |
| 11 | It 's likely that most of them wo n't ever have seen a microlight . |
| 12 | Knowing what the Bushmen knew then — that the NEA was unpopular with conservative legislators and already the target of fundamentalist Christians for subsidising offensive art — they can hardly have seen this as a plum they could hand to a big contributor or a rising political star or , indeed , to anybody aiming to leave town alive . |
| 13 | Only much later , in court , did it transpire that the witness could not possibly have seen the suspect 's face at the distance 75 metres in conditions of semi-darkness . |
| 14 | ‘ The picture of Liz on the sofa — she was a woman alone in a room ; as only God , I should have thought , could possibly have seen her . |
| 15 | Well , I think some of you may possibly have seen this view-graph before . |
| 16 | But its disappearance will be of serious concern to the growing medium-sized business needing a serious injection of equity to continue to fulfil its potential and also the venture capitalist who may always have seen it as a desired exit route for an investment . |
| 17 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 18 | Had the candidate understood these reasons he would at once have seen that the decision in Att. -Gen . |
| 19 | A god might once have seen |
| 20 | The West European chemical industry will probably have seen a 1 per cent increase in GDP in 1991 , Freeman added , compared to a forecast rise of 2.1 per cent . |
| 21 | YOU will probably have seen many films in which cases of dynamite catch fire and detonate to great cinematic effect within a few seconds . |
| 22 | Stein will also have seen grand pianos with an action design very like that of Cristofori made by Johann Heinrich in the same workshop . |
| 23 | Erm , many of you will also have seen Jean-Claude at previous meetings which he attended in the capacity as to Michel . |
| 24 | now some of you will also have seen a form being circulated , asking you to agree that the recordings that are being made of the discussions , can be used as part of a research project . |
| 25 | Elsewhere in the Black Country in 1741 , William Hutton might also have seen women at the family forges making chains , nuts , bolts and screws , though these were much less populated trades than was nail making . |
| 26 | In a final hearing it will also have seen the guardian ad litem 's report . |
| 27 | And I hope that members appreciate as I say , the range and scale of work , which is that , you will also have seen that they 've been able to open now one evening a week , and for a very small service with a budget of about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds , erm they are doing sterling work . |
| 28 | Mr Wiggins added he would rather have seen road fund duty — raised from £110 to £125 — scrapped and replaced with even more substantial hikes in petrol prices than the 12p a gallon ( unleaded ) and 15p ( leaded ) set yesterday . |
| 29 | I was n't too impressed with this — I 'd rather have seen a film — but Andy thought it was all right , so I did too . |
| 30 | I would rather have seen it move to Merthyr Tydfil , Brecon , or anywhere else , because it is an authority for Wales . |