Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [been] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floodlit night feeding of thousands of birds at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has only ever been seen by the centre 's staff . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Until then these infections had only really been seen in people whose natural defences had been damaged by cancer or by drugs which suppress the immune system . |
| 4 | Financial need , even on the part of a close relative , has apparently never been seen as a situation which required an automatic response . |
| 5 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 6 | Lord Scarman referred to violence and disorder ‘ the like of which had not previously been seen in this century in Britain ’ , while one Conservative MP summed up this orthodox reaction in a parliamentary debate ( on 13 April 1981 ) when he spoke of the riots as ‘ something new and sinister in our long national history ’ . |
| 7 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 8 | There were also two young men who lived in No. 45 , who had not actually been seen by Alice . |
| 9 | Disturbingly , however , 27 patients who had been referred between August and December had still not been seen by the end of the study . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've never not been seen by a kid . |
| 12 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 13 | ‘ Both the settlers and the natives assured me ’ , wrote Gould , ‘ that they [ the bronzewings ] had suddenly arrived , and that they had never before been seen in that part of the country . |