Example sentences of "[be] see before " in BNC.

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1 That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ .
2 We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before .
3 The adulation when it was all over was something that had hardly been seen before in England , even on momentous Ashes-winning occasions , and early in 1964 his efforts were rewarded with a knighthood , conferred by the Queen at Buckingham Palace .
4 Yet both women brought a more intense and child-whorish eroticism to the screen than had been seen before , while retaining a suggestion of innocence at the heart of it .
5 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 .
6 It is the occasional unknown specimen which can prove unnerving , the creature which has never been seen before in any swamp or tropical rainforest , mountain cave , zoo or bestiary …
7 The tumour shrank dramatically , in a way which had not been seen before .
8 ‘ Nothing like this has ever been seen before , ’ says Dr Yervant Terzian , chairman of the university 's astronomy department and head of the research team .
9 It was a fleet whose like had never been seen before , vast hulks of crudely fashioned wood propelled by massive tread wheels and gigantic sails .
10 Yes , and I have even added in a few pictures which have never been seen before .
11 The photos do not include very many which have not been seen before , some of them many times ; and captions are virtually innocent of any identification or discussion of the uniforms and personal equipment illustrated , which is puzzling .
12 " After seven hours we arrived in Ekondo Jundu , a village in a forest clearing , where only a few outsiders had been seen before .
13 The difference in alteration between tissue type plasminogen activator antigen and activity , and urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen and activity in columnar epithelial carcinomas has been seen before in colonic neoplasia and is a consequence of the complex regulation mechanism of the activity of both proteases .
14 Seven of the paintings have never been seen before by the public .
15 There were tricoleur roundels on its wings , but on the fuselage the fierce head of an Indian brave in full war feathers was an insignia that had not been seen before .
16 Rather they are emphasising the fact that every programme they show has been seen before , at least once although they are saying that they are ‘ devoted to Britain 's favourite TV programmes ’ .
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