Example sentences of "[noun sg] see [not/n't] " in BNC.

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1 When the new sighted flower girl sees not a handsome , well groomed , six foot Adonis her eyes reveal something different .
2 Truly , William Blake put it most succinctly : ‘ A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees . ’
3 The jaundiced eye sees not black and white but yellow and grey .
4 They are occasionally the venue for outdoor sculpture exhibitions which give the visitor the chance to see not only some fine art , but also the courtyards themselves .
5 The generation before the Revolution saw not only the opposition to royal power offered by the parlements and their allies but a growth in criticism of the monarchical regime of a more fundamental and ultimately more dangerous kind .
6 In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats .
7 We compare them in order to see not what each is like but in what respects they are like each other .
8 The older coherence of a specialized literate culture was challenged alike by these genuine initiatives and by the eventually widespread reproduction of imputed popular material , in speculative and profitable works designed for an expansion seen not as a changing culture but as a new and decisive market .
9 But the fact that they see the same pl face See not everybody wants to talk to a policeman to report crime do they ?
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