Example sentences of "not [adj] to see [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not sorry to see the back of Lazar Farm this time . |
| 2 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 3 | Since it is not easy to see a distinction between their characteristic properties and some essence from which they flow , one might be tempted to think that , when Locke speaks of a coincidence of their real and nominal essence , he means that the notion of a real essence does not really apply to modes . |
| 4 | It is not easy to see the future for the art of jewellery ; it may even be considered that as an art it has not a future . |
| 5 | It is normally placed at the point where sexual arousal is dependent on the element of pain ( inflicted or received ) , but it is not hard to see the variety of ways in which either sadistic or masochistic tendency of any marked degree can affect life-style and relationships even without its overt expression . |
| 6 | Probably , by the time he came to write Surprised by Joy his way of looking at himself had become so idiosyncratic that he was not able to see the significance of these two relationships in his religious , as well as in his whole emotional , development . |
| 7 | I was not able to see the CIEFL in session , but through discussions was able to get a good idea of the activities of its various English Departments . |
| 8 | It is not difficult to see the reasons for the Bible 's crucial emphasis on right parental modelling . |
| 9 | It is not difficult to see the connection between the former tradition and the stereotyped model of physical science — a model which , Hudson says , ‘ physical scientists themselves have long abandoned ’ . |
| 10 | The flight of religious sects seeking greater freedom to pursue their often rather peculiar activities was probably less significant than in the previous half-century , if only because mid-Victorian governments held no strong views about orthodoxy as such , though probably not displeased to see the heels of the British or Danish Mormons , whose penchant for polygamy created problems . |