Example sentences of "[conj] as [pron] have seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt Sergeant Blatchford and Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell would have found much to argue about — not least the question of full-time socialist agitators — but here was agreement of sorts , although as we have seen Baden-Powell was more inclined to smuggle in militarism behind fresh air philosophies , nature study and the smoke of jolly camp fires . |
| 2 | Although as we have seen earlier the decorative qualities of gold could be explored by direct hammering , the archaeological record shows that goldsmithing of a sophisticated kind in fact developed in communities which practised copper or bronze metallurgy . |
| 3 | Many towns had to rely on immigration from the country to maintain even a reduced level of population , and the easing of pressure of population on the land in the country reduced the urge on men to move , although as we have seen in our examination of rural society men did continue to leave the land to escape the burdens of serfdom ( 70 ; 104 , pp.206–10 ; Ch.4 ) . |
| 4 | Intervention varies according to factors such as the degree of commercial autonomy of the state enterprise , although as we have seen , commercialism is no deterrent to intervention and may indeed promote it . |
| 5 | He was definitely a Lamarckian in the sense that he believed in inherited , in the inheritance of acquired characteristics , and as we 've seen , in writing about psychology , he even conceded something of , of Lamarck 's idea about evolution by will . |
| 6 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 7 | And as we have seen , the life-styles of older men and women have been equally varied . |
| 8 | And as we have seen , retirement was then much less common , and confined to a restricted social minority . |
| 9 | Phenomena are frequently reported at springs and streams , as Lethbridge noted and as we have seen in the context of visions of fairies and the Virgin Mary . |
| 10 | This is what masonry is about and as we have seen in Chapter 2 , starting with the simple wall one can go from the arch to the dome and to the most complicated cathedral , keeping everything in compression , or at least trying to do so . |
| 11 | Drill will , at best , produce learning and as we have seen , this is only a short term cure . |
| 12 | The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area . |
| 13 | But this is so only if we equate democracy with a simple and unrestrained majoritarianism , and as we have seen , there are good democratic reasons for not making that equation . |
| 14 | It was not , however , until the Judges ' Rules were revised in 1964 that the protection was related to the moment when the charge was laid ; and as we have seen , the moment at which it attaches has now by Code C been further advanced . |
| 15 | Tilly ( 1975 ) poses the important question of why political development in Western Europe took the course it did , when other options were still open ; and as we have seen , he singles out a number of specific circumstances which , in that time and place , favoured the creation of nation states . |
| 16 | And as we have seen , predicted changes in aggregate demand will have no effect on real output , or real economic activity — they will only affect prices . |
| 17 | The initial onus will be on the employee as applicant to demonstrate an outstanding benefit to the employer ; and as we have seen , this is no easy task . |
| 18 | Sometimes this will be the organisation , but this is usually too ambitious for detailed study , and as we have seen the organisation will normally be divided into local areas for separate analysis . |
| 19 | And as you 've seen , it stems from a thorough knowledge of his father . ’ |
| 20 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 21 | But as we 've seen , not being linguistic does n't make Pooh 's bees any less useful as a sign . |
| 22 | But as we have seen , he was extremely careful to avoid public association with the generally unpopular pogrom-type anti-Semitic outrages . |
| 23 | To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ . |
| 24 | But as we have seen , he referred to the Duddon valley as ‘ the darling of my heart ’ — he says in the Guide that Mr. West ‘ contented himself by speaking of the scenery of easy access from the public roads , for he has entirely omitted the vast and romantic wilds which lie between the sea and the chain of lofty mountains , beginning at Coniston and ending at Lows Water — who shall traverse Seathwaite , Eskdale Wastdale , Ennerdale and Ennersaledale , and not be ready to acknowledge that the Western side of his tour , though probably less beautiful , is infinitely more magnificent than the Eastern side ? ’ |
| 25 | But as we have seen , Bukharin argued that such a method was quite wrong , since it presupposed that the two sectors were wholly antagonistic , whereas they formed a contradictory unity , a living totality . |
| 26 | But as we have seen , this is at the very heart of the problem of the survival of free institutions , because if this policy is pursued it would be impossible to stop the drift to totalitarianism . |
| 27 | These enormous questions beset us all at various stages of life , but as we have seen they can be particularly problematical for older people . |
| 28 | Thus a crack two microns deep has twice the surface energy of a crack one micron deep but as we have seen it releases four times as much strain energy . |
| 29 | But as we have seen , it is very likely that the potentiated response is maintained in part by presynaptic mechanisms . |
| 30 | But as we have seen , the law in some cases allows anyone with a genuine interest to make an application for judicial review , and it may take such persons a considerable time to find out about the decision they want to challenge . |