Example sentences of "[verb] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 2 | She has seen who 's pulling the strings . |
| 3 | The point is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that Actaeon is not free to narrate what he has seen , but Ovid is . |
| 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 | At the time of birth , however , an angel strikes its upper lip , so causing it to forget everything that it has seen and learned . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Edberg 's performance was near perfection as the famous Queen 's Club pavilion court has seen . |
| 9 | This freight line has seen a limited summer weekend passenger service to a temporary station at Coalbrookdale for the Ironbridge museum since 1987 . |
| 10 | In addition , there is a single HST Mk 3 saloon , which , since special refitting to include a lounge and dining area , has seen use by both the Queen and the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | And as Rex and Khai Eng , still thriving in an area which has seen plenty of other vegetarian establishments come and go , get ready to enter their second decade , perhaps we 'll leave the last word to Rex : |
| 12 | The Lake District has seen new editions of Wordsworth 's and Harriet Martineau 's guides , and now comes the reminiscences of Capt. Budworth , who walked the fells in 1792 . |
| 13 | At the same time , CB , as it became in 1959 , has seen the source of its earnings diversify as consumer finance became more and more important to the group . |
| 14 | The mechanical engineering sector has seen the largest increase , at 15.3 per cent , although pay is 7.3 per cent below the national average . |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't predict anything until he has seen the scan , but Dean is looking very doubtful , ’ England 's manager , Geoff Cooke , said . |
| 16 | Andrew Hugh Smith , ISE chairman , said : ‘ Turnover in UK equities has seen an increase of almost 50 per cent over the past year , alleviating some of the problems caused by the very low volumes after the market crash . |
| 17 | Instead , the management kept it open , and has seen its judgement vindicated by the subsequent recovery . |
| 18 | Now , after every Hong Kong citizen with a television set has seen how Peking treats its dissenters , it offers nothing to a public whose mood has become one of restrained panic . |
| 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 | The management team , led by Peter Jansen , which originally put up 10 per cent of the £12m equity element of the buyout , has seen its investment increase 60-fold at the MB Group offer price . |
| 21 | And what are we to make of the claim that the twentieth century has seen no philosophical achievements on the scale of Locke and Descartes ? |
| 22 | Lenders ' keenness to write business has seen mortgage rates sink below base rates . |
| 23 | The much-thumbed book is deeply moving , and sets the tone for a walk round this glorious building , which has seen the christenings , marriages and burials of the folk of the village for more than 600 years . |
| 24 | But when the citizens of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers cast their stones into the pot last week and elected the managing director of Amalgamated Metal Trading on to their council with the biggest number of votes , they elevated the nearest that divided body has seen to a populist . |
| 25 | Now Penrhyn , operated by Alfred McAlpine , has seen profits and production increase fourfold in five years , and 400 are employed . |
| 26 | It was almost certainly the largest protest the German Democratic Republic has seen . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The purchase of an interest in either Jaguar or Saab would extend another trend by the two Detroit carmakers which has seen both buy a number of small motor engineering firms in Europe in recent years to acquire technology . |
| 29 | And this week has seen the launch of a new international singing competition in memory of Peter Pears . |
| 30 | But the Rugby Union has seen fit to let it degenerate and from next season , when it 's played at the same time as the divisional championship , it will be virtually kaput . |