Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] seen [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Austen Chamberlain , despite his limitations , was an ally of a staunchness rarely seen in politics . |
| 2 | A good pastel by Francesco Clemente ( lot 165 , est. £10,000–15,000 ) fetched £17,000 , two important paintings by Christopher Lebrun attracted keen interest , ‘ Marcus Curtius ’ ( lot 167 , est. £14,000–18,000 ) being purchased by private dealer , Desmond Page , and sales at admittedly low prices , were made for works by Donald Baechler ( lot 168 ) , Kenny Scharf ( lot 177 ) , Matt Mullican ( lots 185 and 186 ) and other New York artists rarely seen in London . |
| 3 | Nick Logan is a strange , reclusive figure rarely seen outside Wanstead , unless accompanied by Ronnie Biggs ' biographer . |
| 4 | The biggest collection of Ferraris ever seen outside Italy gathered at Silverstone at the weekend . |
| 5 | Our experience of sponsorship in Scotland was invaluable and , because of the success we enjoyed there with volleyball , we chose to support the National Leagues and Cup competitions in England and we recently sponsored a four-nations international event which provided some of the finest volleyball ever seen in Britain ; thanks to television coverage , nationwide audiences were able to share in the excitement . |
| 6 | His maximum brought with it one of the fastest race times ever seen in Swindon . |
| 7 | Australian audiences will have the opportunity to see ‘ the greatest collection of Italian masterpieces ever seen in Australia , combined with a survey of the work of Peter Paul Rubens ’ ( so runs the press release ) . |
| 8 | The crag rat , or Rattus lithographus , is a strange specimen rarely seen in limestone hitherto because of the friable nature of the rocks , until now usually preferring Lakeland granite or Pennine gritstone . |
| 9 | The distinction just seen with noun objects is also applicable to examples with the infinitive and will allow us to account for the distribution of to with cause and make . |
| 10 | One of the most spectacular sights ever seen by man must have been the mile-high fiery cascade when a lava flow poured into the Grand Canyon in Arizona . |
| 11 | Are all your expensive goods easily seen from windows ? |
| 12 | In 1942 , there was the biggest parade ever seen in Oxford . |
| 13 | The other types of leather corals usually seen in dealer 's tanks are the various species of Lobophytum . |
| 14 | ‘ Cut out middleman 's profits — buy direct from the manufacturer ’ is a phrase often seen in newspaper advertisements , implying that the retailing and wholesaling functions are otiose , or at least inefficient . |
| 15 | In addition feeding parties of up to 80 birds were seen offshore , mainly in early autumn , and 800 flew west off Beachy Head on 18 September 1976 , the largest movement yet seen off Sussex . |
| 16 | This is no doubt reinforced by the fact that the Asian elephant is the species always seen in circuses . |
| 17 | He brought with him from England a legendary reputation as an actor manager and his dream was to build the most modern theatre ever seen in Belfast . |
| 18 | A few years later this latest manor house was built , and in 1928 almost the first double glazing ever seen in England was installed to combat the bitterly cold winds . |
| 19 | Contemporary dedications at Rome reflected the growing trend of relatives of military commanders to glorify their illustrious ancestors , a trend also seen in portraiture ( see chapter 2 ) . |
| 20 | The appointment of Mr Stürmer , a friend of Chancellor Kohl and a man often seen on television , made some of the staff fear they were going to be ‘ politicised ’ . |
| 21 | It implies that 90% of the universe is composed of something other than everyday atoms — swarms of exotic particles never seen on earth . |
| 22 | SOME 61,000 spectators , the biggest athletics crowd ever seen in Spain , barracked the one-time ‘ Flying Steroid ’ Ben Johnson in the Olympic stadium last night . |
| 23 | Some even go so far as to link its emergence to the coming of reggae music to Britain , circa 1970 , and the first reggae film widely seen in Britain , Perry Henzell 's ( 1972 ) The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff . |
| 24 | Come in with me as my lieutenant , and we 'll make the biggest fortune ever seen in Cornwall . |
| 25 | The most controversial goal ever seen at Wembley had been scored . |
| 26 | A prominent feature was the surviving aggregates of endocrine cells marking the former position of glandular bases where colonic crypts had been destroyed ( Fig 2B ) , a feature characteristically seen in graft v host disease . |
| 27 | It was the nearest thing to a coherent defence system yet seen at Verdun . |
| 28 | Using language normally seen in missives asking for one 's child to be excused from games , Ms Smith 's mother , Mrs Patsy Smith was quoted as saying , ‘ Mandy ca n't have sex because she 's not well enough . ’ |
| 29 | A vet has borrowed medical technology normally seen in maternity hospitals and is using it on farms to bring more certainty to lambing . |
| 30 | The organisers of the Basingstoke Open Day succeeded in assembling the largest collection of motive power types ever seen on BR . |