Example sentences of "not be seen " in BNC.

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1 She has not been seen since .
2 He had not been seen since Castle Menzies .
3 And he had not been seen for some days .
4 Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years .
5 Mr Guerin has not been seen since the scandal broke , and has been communicating with the authorities through his lawyer in Philadelphia .
6 During a shift when the men considered that very little was happening , they responded to calls concerning a house fire and an attempted break-in , calls to check on the whereabouts of a pensioner who had not been seen by a neighbour for a few days , a request to pick up and transport a prisoner , and a call to move on some youths .
7 She started a craze for pearl chokers , which had not been seen in years .
8 Ms Rubiya Sayeed , aged 21 , has not been seen since Friday night , when she was seized by seven gunmen from a minibus in the state capital , Srinagar .
9 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 .
10 Since bananas have not been seen in Romania for years and many children have never eaten one before , they sell quickly .
11 Fear infected Americans with a mass hysteria which had not been seen since the Great Crash .
12 The political allies of the Popular Television Association were initially limited to a handful of young Conservative backbenchers like John Profumo and Selwyn Lloyd , but they ran a public-relations campaign on a scale , and of a sophistication , which had not been seen before in Britain .
13 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 .
14 Tax , which will start at 59 per cent , will climb to such rates as have not been seen since Roy Jenkins with his 103 per cent ‘ top slice ’ .
15 Omar Kujabi , a Senegalese labourer and amateur wrestler , has not been seen at the Abuko reserve , near Banjul , since the body of Mrs Penelope Hiscocks , 42 , was found in the grounds of a house where she had been staying .
16 Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting .
17 The job analysis is a voluntary activity at these schools and has not been seen as another way of pulling the teacher 's leash .
18 Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen .
19 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 .
20 The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since .
21 Someone said that O had not been seen at his job in the video hire shop for the whole week either .
22 The tumour shrank dramatically , in a way which had not been seen before .
23 Long live prostitution — the like of which has not been seen since the downfall of Rome … ’
24 Then a wave formed , the like of which had not been seen at Pipeline that winter .
25 Hillingdon 's thesis was that ‘ unexpressed needs ’ , though felt , had not been seen in terms of a library solution , whilst in the case of ‘ unactivated need ’ the library stimulated demand for needs which had not even been felt .
26 He stepped out of the door shortly after two in the afternoon , and has not been seen since .
27 The rest of the Battalion arrived at intervals including some of the missing men of A company who had not been seen since Waterloo .
28 Certainly this method of drawing has not been seen at a later date , and it would have been difficult to produce this quality and style of work in quantity .
29 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 ) .
30 The challenge to take hold of the world and mould it into the Utopia so desired has so far not been seen by humanity to be what it is .
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