Example sentences of "seen [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For sure , the eighties has already had its riots and can expect more , it has seen insurgent movements for progressive and peaceful life on earth , symbolised by the first women 's embrace of the Greenham Common base in December 1982 which shifted popular consensus against the new generation of nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | The Dowsing Fault-Zone can still be distinguished as a separate structural zone which has seen Tertiary re-activation , as shown in Profile 1 . |
| 3 | Altogether the Johnson Administration claimed to have seen 226 out of 252 pieces of major legislation through Congress in its four years . |
| 4 | Flying over the country at fifteen thousand feet at night , I had seen strange toy woods and towns and the eiderdown pattern of the fields . |
| 5 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 6 | Well , I 've seen strange children aplenty , ’ Dauntless replied with contrived joviality . |
| 7 | In fact on a couple of occasions he had thought he had seen strange green faces peering down at him from the branches . |
| 8 | ‘ Many of our children have seen awful things . |
| 9 | Indeed as we have seen economic equality in society could only be achieved under two kinds of circumstances — one through the use of coercion in which case it is incompatible with freedom and the other in a situation in which people do not respond or even care about material rewards . |
| 10 | The superpowers have seen the conflict as a function of their own struggle , and seen regional contestants either as friends or as surrogates of the enemy . |
| 11 | Many recognised the ‘ Rameses ’ and ‘ Catherine ’ titles , but had seen neither show , and knew little or nothing about the imminent Turkish and Vatican exhibitions . |
| 12 | Cara had seen neither member of Frizingley 's force herself ; nor was she in the least surprised that two men armed only with truncheons should shirk from attempting to enforce their will upon St Jude 's . |
| 13 | I 've seen eighty-three at least ! ’ |
| 14 | The percentage who had seen Labour in second place rose from a mere 13 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to 78 per cent in the first fortnight and 95 per cent in the second . |
| 15 | The history of the past ten years has seen Labour consistently oppose any change inside the health service and , even more regrettably , has often seen groups inside it resist reform on the grounds that their vested interests are being challenged . |
| 16 | I 've seen Labour inspired Trade Union control of hospitals , I 've seen the patient to be the last in Labour 's priorities |
| 17 | I have seen ACE schemes I have seen abuse of them . |
| 18 | I have seen ACE schemes that are doing very good work but are more or less driven out of the place they are in because people did n't like their faces , or for other reasons . |
| 19 | The pilot seemed to have forgotten his passenger : he had seen Ace and Defries . |
| 20 | France , for example , facing recession and rising unemployment , has seen European neighbours that do a quarter of its trade devalue their currencies by a real 10% since last September . |
| 21 | A few villas , white or pale yellow buildings , could be seen dotted haphazardly across the face of the hill , separated by small groves of olive trees and the occasional stand of poplars . |
| 22 | The Table shows the extent of histological injury , which compares the damage seen immediately after ethanol perfusion was stopped with the damage seen 180 minutes after ethanol . |
| 23 | The gastric mucosa of capsaicin pretreated rats showed a similar degree of repair to that of vehicle pretreated animals but , as the initial insult was more severe , recovery seen 180 minutes after ethanol was to the same extent as that in vehicle pretreated rats ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 24 | Well I 've seen Spanish slates in the quarry . |
| 25 | ( k ) To enter into any arrangements with any government or authority ( supreme , municipal , local or otherwise ) that may seen conducive to the attainment of the Company 's objects or any of them , and to obtain from any such government or authority any charters , decrees , rights , privileges or concessions which the Company may think desirable and to carry out , exercise , and comply with any such charters , decrees , rights , privileges , and concessions . |
| 26 | ( k ) To enter into any arrangements with any government or authority ( supreme , municipal , local or otherwise ) that may seen conducive to the attainment of the Company 's objects or any of them , and to obtain from any such government or authority any charters , decrees , rights , privileges or concessions which the Company may think desirable and to carry out , exercise , and comply with any such charters , decrees , rights , privileges , and concessions . |
| 27 | It is characteristically red , with an M-type spectrum , and at maximum it may rise to magnitude 5.4 , so that it is then an easy binocular object ; with × 12 or higher magnification I have seen strong colour in it . |
| 28 | I 've seen strong men crying at the salmon mayonnaise , and the wine cellar would turn a camel off the water . |
| 29 | And the West Midlands for four or five surveys we 've seen strong total orders broadly based between se sectors , strong output trends so the West Midlands being our leading er region is consistent with what we 've seen from other surveys . |
| 30 | 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 . |