Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [been] seen [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The condition , which is relatively common in continental Europe , has not been seen on this scale in the UK since the 1920s . |
| 2 | The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam . |
| 3 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
| 4 | The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years . |
| 5 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 6 | ‘ Monsieur Gebrec has not been seen since nine-thirty this morning , ’ said Melissa . |
| 7 | The job analysis is a voluntary activity at these schools and has not been seen as another way of pulling the teacher 's leash . |
| 8 | Thus a correlation between faecal fat and faecal bile acid excretion has not been seen in all studies . |
| 9 | Evidence for tissue specific , copy-dependent , position-independent expression has been shown mainly in cross-species transgenics ; such as , human β-globin ( 14,15,48 ) , CD2 ( 49 ) , α-globin ( 50 ) , and class I HLA-B7 ( 51,52 ) genes as well as for chicken lysozyme ( 53 ) , although absolute correlation between expression , tissue distribution and copy number has not been seen in all cases . |
| 10 | It is something which seems such an ordinary thing to do , and yet the effect of it is something which has not been seen in pictorial art since Giotto . |
| 11 | The meeting was cancelled and Mr Li has not been seen in public since . |
| 12 | The John Gosden-trained three-year-old has not been seen in public so far this term , but has certainly been sparkling on the Newmarket gallops in preparation for his reappearance . |
| 13 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |
| 14 | He had not been seen at all at his office . |
| 15 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 16 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 17 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 18 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 19 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 20 | The effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and the Economic Recovery Tax Act was to move the United States in new directions in economic policy ; fundamental change of a sort that had not been seen for half a century . |
| 21 | The historical ruler , who might or might not have made disastrous political mistakes , gave way to the woman who might or might not have written the Casket Letters ; and scholars plunged into the absorbing task of deciding whether letters whose originals had not been seen since 1584 , and whose texts had been translated from French into Scots and then back into French , were forgeries or not . |
| 22 | This was a significant discovery in that fusion had not been seen in toroidal discharges before . |
| 23 | When biologists studying these birds added extra shade to some territories , the birds exhibited something that had not been seen in this species before ; trigamy , males with three mates . |
| 24 | He had not been seen in public since 29 December , an indication that he was in trouble . |
| 25 | Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance . |
| 26 | After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ? |
| 27 | The paintings of the Thirties and Forties have not been seen in any sort of proper way and they are quite extraordinary , particularly that last group of interiors which Matisse painted between 1946 and 1948 . |
| 28 | Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days . |