Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [be] see [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Guerin has not been seen since the scandal broke , and has been communicating with the authorities through his lawyer in Philadelphia . |
| 2 | Similarly a small black hoverfly , Cheilosia bergenstammi , whose larvae feed on ragwort , was captured in 1972 , 1973 and 1974 ( N= 19 ) and has not been seen since , whereas C. vernalis , whose food plant is unknown , appeared for the first time in 1978 and has since become frequent ( N=118 ) . |
| 3 | ESTATE agent Suzy Lamplugh has not been seen since she left her office on July 28 , 1986 , to keep an appointment with the mysterious Mr Kipper at a house . |
| 4 | Jason , 21 , has not been seen since he got a lift to a pub on December 8 from the home he shared with his girlfriend in Box , Wiltshire . |
| 5 | POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned about the welfare of a 30-year-old woman who has not been seen since she walked out of Broadgreen Hospital , Liverpool , two weeks ago . |
| 6 | They were the unfortunates who paid host to the YF annual convention three days of pillaging the like of which has not been seen since this lot last had droit de seigneur . |
| 7 | Cleveland Police have repeated an appeal for information about Leslie Simms , 70 , who has not been seen since he left an old person 's home in Middlesbrough more than three weeks ago . |
| 8 | Qi Can Huang speaks no English and has not been seen since he left the family home in Yarm Road , Darlington , on January 16 . |
| 9 | The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client . |
| 10 | Formerly Australia 's most wanted man , he walked out of Springhill Open prison near Aylesbury 7 weeks ago and has n't been seen since , giving rise to questions about how he was sent to low-security confinement in the first place . |
| 11 | Ports and airports have been alerted to keep watch for Dennis Garvey , who has n't been seen since the bodies of his family were found . |
| 12 | Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect . |
| 13 | Home was Croydon , where she lived with her divorced mother in a council flat , supported by social security , supplemented occasionally by haphazard maintenance payments from her father , who was in the Merchant Navy and had not been seen since Val was five . |
| 14 | They had no available extended family : there were Potters scattered about North Yorkshire who had not been seen since Bill 's Congregationalist parents had cast him off for unbelief . |
| 15 | His report that she had left the island , and had not been seen or heard of since , went into the computer bank with hundreds of similar reports and remained on file . |
| 16 | All at once in the ante-rooms of the palace were sources of people who had not been seen or allowed anywhere near the place in recent years . |
| 17 | Prior to the 1830s , personal morality had not been seen as necessary for political eminence . |
| 18 | Conservators have reconstructed a third-century B.C. carved-sandstone ‘ coffin bench ’ , and a fourth-century etched-sandstone chapel wall , major items that have not been seen since they were disassembled for transport decades ago . |
| 19 | It is frequently said that like changes have not been seen since the invention of the printed book but a good argument can be made for comparing the IT revolution with the invention of writing itself . |
| 20 | Their procedures have not been seen as being as open and impartial as those of HMI . |