Example sentences of "not [adv] see [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sale attracted a large proportion of new faces not normally seen at Old Master sales , attracted by the Spanish subject matter and willing to purchase works which were by no means new to the market in a number of cases . |
| 2 | There is an intensity and brilliance not usually seen in pastel ranges and the emphasis is on a clear cut , ordered and resonant scale of colours , rather than a clutter of derivative shades and tints . |
| 3 | But it is not always seen in this way . |
| 4 | The imaginative may not unreasonably see in these actions the source of communal meal-taking in man and its importance to social life and ritual . |
| 5 | The scaup in flight is almost identical but although scaups are common enough around the coast they are exclusively winter visitors and not often seen on inland waters . |
| 6 | It is turned in this action towards the meagre amount of light , light which has a density and texture not often seen in real life , created by filling the air with smoke and piercing it with tungsten light . |
| 7 | The collection was formed by the late shopping-centre magnate Sir Harold ( later Lord ) Samuel who , on the advice of dealer Edward Speelman , amassed mainly small , highly finished cabinet pictures on copper or panel that were very much to the taste of eighteenth-century collectors but are not often seen in American collections : notably , five town-views by Jan van der Heyden ; a ‘ Winter Landscape with Skaters ’ by Adriaen van de Velde , and a seven-by-nine inch masterpiece by Jan Steen of a couple sleeping at a table beneath an arbour . |
| 8 | The newt , although fairly common in English ponds , is not often seen by ordinary people because it is a shy and murky creature . |