Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 2 | Johnny Hallyday 's Hamlet , for instance , was not widely seen as threatening the supremacy of Olivier and Gielgud . |
| 3 | But , although these concepts ( standardness , eliteness , carefulness ) are of different orders ( and we shall return to these distinctions ) , Dobson does not apparently see any reason to keep them separate . |
| 4 | Wickham did not entirely see but this was Shildon 's meeting and he was an intruder . |
| 5 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 6 | You will not necessarily see your physiotherapist doing exactly the treatment techniques described below : she may use some of these techniques plus others she has devised herself , or she may use a completely different method . |
| 7 | To see objects , it is not enough to see surfaces , although that is an excellent start . |
| 8 | He believed he should come across someone who should want his skills — he was an incurable optimist , and imagined a fortunate meeting around every corner , though how that should come about was hard to see , as he advanced farther and farther into the dark , dense trees , where even the moonlight was split into dull little needles of bluish light on the moss , not enough to see by . |
| 9 | Not enough to see by . |
| 10 | Most carers have attachment and affection to sustain them ; recognising that the deepest levels of such feelings are not enough to see the process through , involves some grief . |
| 11 | The moon was hardly more than a pale sliver , and surely not enough to see by . |
| 12 | Rooms on the first floor , not hitherto seen by visitors , are to be remodelled and mounted with French panelling formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild . |
| 13 | He said he believed the Emperor was with the troops on the Brussels road , but he had not personally seen him . |
| 14 | ‘ There is still a place for old favourites such as viscaria , a plant I loved growing as a child although it is not much seen today . |
| 15 | There was another girl , Caroline , who , it appeared , lived at No. 45 , though she was not much seen . |
| 16 | The autumn of 1529 not only saw the fall from power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , who had dominated religious and political life in England for the previous fifteen years , but also the beginning of the first session of the Reformation Parliament . |
| 17 | Surrealists not only saw art as being composed of signifying elements drawn from the real , but also understood reality to be composed of signifying elements . |
| 18 | He not only saw off no-confidence motions , but won the Congress round to supporting direct elections for an executive presidency . |
| 19 | Finally , the Polish General Staff has not only seen itself as an avid ‘ consumer ’ of Soviet military doctrine , but a contributor as well , which has authored its own innovations with Soviet endorsement . |
| 20 | Each national economy is not only seen as part of that world economic ( and social ) system , it is treated as subordinate to its global forces . |
| 21 | Thus , the MSc in Education is not only seen as a regular part of the national system of educational in-service education in Scotland , but it has a strong international appeal . |
| 22 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 23 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 24 | The hide is a good place to spend some time , not only to see the more common bird species such as heron , coot and several kinds of tit , but you might also be lucky enough to spot less common birds such as the great spotted woodpecker and the kingfisher . |
| 25 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 26 | But Watson does not only see himself as publicity agent for his cause . |
| 27 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 28 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 29 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 30 | Would-be interpreters studying the music could not only see Elgar 's intentions in the printed score , but could follow the creative process a stage further — to the ultimate stage , in fact , and hear the creator realize his work in its natural medium , that of sound . |