Example sentences of "not seen [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had not seen beyond the violence : she had not planned for any other outcome .
2 This fluidity was partly made necessary by a rapid growth in population , and it combined with the growth in population to make the period of this book one of social and economic change such as Europe had not seen since the fall of the Roman Empire in the West .
3 Meanwhile , the gap between ( non-financial ) companies ' reported profits and capital spending is rising : at ¥20.9 trillion , in calendar 1990 it reached 4.9% of GNP , a level not seen since the mid-1970s .
4 Their 1st runs at the end of 1981 were witnessed by scenes not seen since the end of steam when literally thousands either embarked on farewell trips or crowded platform ends for a last glimpse of the 3,300hp machines that were as popular as the LNER Gresley steam Pacifics they replaced .
5 The first was The south-east study ( 1964 ) which put forward broad-based regional proposals covering the period to 1981 of a kind not seen since the end of the war .
6 It does n't though , and the photocopiers are good enough to pass official muster , how long can it be before we have the sort of crisis of confidence in our physical currency not seen since the days of the coin-clipping Tudors ?
7 But in September 1015 he appeared off Sandwich again , to initiate fourteen months of campaigning , largely against Æthelred 's son Edmund Ironside , and of an intensity not seen since the days of Alfred .
8 In Australia , he rewrote the history books in a display not seen since the days of Jim Clark and Graham Hill — they helped revolutionise Indycar racing with their rear-engined Lotus Fords — when he started from pole position , won the race and smashed the lap record in his debut race .
9 The rest of the morning flew by watching other teams rehearse , looking over our surroundings and renewing acquaintances with team members from other areas , not seen since the Festival of Movement at the Albert Hall in 1978 .
10 Painstakingly , with meticulous attention to detail , Tethlis rebuilt the Elf forces to a strength not seen since the time of Aenarion .
11 In September the Council warned that wheat stocks held by the five biggest exporters — Argentina , Australia , Canada , the European Commodities and the USA , were set to fall by the end of the 1989-90 season to levels not seen since the food crisis of the mid-1970's .
12 Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making .
13 Seven out of the nine are listed in Lister 's catalogue raisonné as being untraceable , and the exhibition as a whole includes a high proportion of works not seen on the market for some years .
14 Further studies showed that this effect on anomal weight and pellet consumption was not seen with the addition of porcine colipase alone and that there was a significant reduction in total weight of food consumed at six hours when 10 µg synthetic VPDPR was given intraperitoneally .
15 In the eyes of such politicians , industrial managers were not seen as the creators of the nation 's wealth , and the providers of job opportunities for the people , but as despoilers of the environment ; obsolete men , peddling obsolete views , who did n't really fit in with the new social scheme of things .
16 When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book .
17 As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers .
18 As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers .
19 While senior officials recognize this as a problem requiring constant monitoring , the level of anxiety about it remains low , and it is not seen as the forerunner of a future threat .
20 The parties at large are not seen as the formers of policy for the government ; that is a task reserved for the parliamentary members of the governing party .
21 Indeed , the sea can be a dull subject when not seen as the setting for human activity and emotion .
22 The first programme consists of his first commissioned ballet , Danses Concertantes , the early whimsical Solitaire , and the powerful Las Hermanas made originally for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1963 , remounted for SWRB in 1976 and not seen at the Wells since 1984 .
23 The princess , wearing a red jacket and black skirt and hat , was spotted soon afterwards making her way to the paddock , chatting happily with Andrew Parker Bowles , husband of the Prince of Wales ' friend Camilla , who was not seen at the meeting .
24 Or not seen in the way she seemed to see .
25 Of the three not seen in the clinic , one died in 1978 and the other two died in 1981 and 1982 under the care of other physicians .
26 Therefore , the empirical evidence suggesting that reliable signals of each actor 's state are not seen in the course of animal conflicts may have been misinterpreted .
27 Within hours of the verdicts there was violence and looting on a scale not seen in the city since the Watts riots of 1965 .
28 A wild boar forages for food in its natural habitat ; something not seen in the Forest of Dean for 500 years .
29 In this study , the most striking histological finding was the presence of extensive amyloid infiltration of the smooth muscle in the AL and the AH cases , but such amyloid deposits were not seen in the AA cases .
30 Describes an allele whose effect is not seen in the heterozygote , because of the presence of a dominant allele of the same gene .
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