Example sentences of "[adv] been seen for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 2 | The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 8 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Commenting on more ghastly figures ( see opposite ) Philips Electronics NV chairman Jan Timmer said the Dutch multinational 's performance in 1992 's fourth quarter , which is normally the strongest of the year as people buy electronic toys for Christmas , was very disappointing , and that no let-up in price erosion had so far been seen for 1993 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days . |