Example sentences of "seen a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to sympathise with a traveller who writes : ‘ I have seen a quantity of things here — churches , palaces , statues , fountains and pictures ; and my brain is at the moment like the portfolio of an architect , or a print-shop , or a common-place book . ’ |
| 2 | Finding a style in these parts without having seen a production of the play can be a problem , but as with absurd drama , there is a lot of room for personal interpretation . |
| 3 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 4 | The grip of the brewing giants is still powerful ; the late 1980s has seen a worrying return to takeovers and mergers and the intensification of lager promotion . |
| 5 | The past 10 years has seen a dramatic improvement in Italy 's wine technology led by the latest generation of gifted wine-makers . |
| 6 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
| 7 | I have seen a — 65 kilo male face a +90 kilo opponent in team category and the outcome was not pretty ! |
| 8 | I have seen a disengaging contestant step forwards straight into the path of an incoming technique . |
| 9 | More than once I have seen a hapless opponent reaching down to scoop a front kick that never comes , and getting caught on the undefended side of the head ! |
| 10 | As Fergus Campbell has suggested , if the ERP can tell us whether or not the subject has seen a light , it takes the psycho out of psychophysics . |
| 11 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 12 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 13 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 14 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 15 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 16 | This freight line has seen a limited summer weekend passenger service to a temporary station at Coalbrookdale for the Ironbridge museum since 1987 . |
| 17 | The LVA claim that pubs converted to management in Winchester in the past have seen a rapid turnover of staff and a substantial decline in trade . |
| 18 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 19 | Statistics for the years 1975 to 1987 show an 18 per cent drop in the number of visitors to the palaces , while the National Trust has seen a 48 per cent rise . |
| 20 | But the body of Mrs Wilks was not found until two days later , at the bottom of a motorway embankment two-and-a-half miles away , when a motorist took police to a spot where he had seen a silver Renault 25 parked . |
| 21 | Just as we are on the way out of the desert , it would be plain daft to turn back because someone thinks they have seen a hazy mirage on the horizon . ’ |
| 22 | William Farrell had seen a Renault 25 car parked beside a crash barrier as he drove past . |
| 23 | At Barclays de Zoete Wedd , whose report on the sector is due out this week , analyst Jane Anscombe points out that there are currently some worries on the advertising revenue front , and that some television people have seen a bit of pressure . |
| 24 | ‘ MY OFFICIALS looked sick … but somehow I have seen a shaft of light ; I know clearly why I am there . |
| 25 | In his prejudiced but occasionally interesting Labour and the Benn Factor ( Macdonald £12.95 ) , Michael Cocks recalls Benn on the train after a party conference wandering up and down the carriage saying : ‘ Has anybody seen a pair of National Health Service glasses ? ’ |
| 26 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 27 | He knows that he wandered in places which had never seen a plane , a car , or a radio . |
| 28 | ‘ They have seen a phenomenon they believe to be smoke , and with nothing but their personal opinion to guide them , they have promptly pronounced its origins as fire . ’ |
| 29 | Many also claimed to have seen a banana-shaped object in the sky , and a characteristic illuminated sign . ’ |
| 30 | Anyone who has seen a recent Konitz performance wo n't argue with this ; taste , attention to tonal delicacy and a striving after melodic inventiveness are his hallmarks . |