Example sentences of "not [adv] see [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Baptism of Jesus did not merely see the end of the long silence , and God 's declaration that in Jesus the role of the Servant and the Son had converged : the age-long drought of the Holy Spirit was ended too . |
| 2 | This , despite the fact that he had not long seen the evidence of its use with his own eyes , in the shape of the two sprawled corpses at the gas station . |
| 3 | It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers . |
| 4 | It is also the most widely used general classification scheme on the Continent of Europe , and this in an environment where libraries have not generally seen the virtue of published classification schemes , preferring to use their own private schemes . |
| 5 | A further example of the parallelism of greater precision may be found here , though commentators do not generally see the connection of thought between the two lines . |
| 6 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 7 | to misinterpret religious people 's behaviour and commitment ; 2. to take literally what may have been intended metaphorically or symbolically ; 3. not even to see the possibility of the truth of religious concepts . |
| 8 | Perhaps you could not even see the windows of the School from where he was . |
| 9 | This you have in common with the rest of the zodiac but Virgos , in particular , will discover aspects and talents within themselves that have not yet seen the light of day . |
| 10 | So the book , or one of the books , which Eliot wanted me to write has not yet seen the light of day . |
| 11 | You could n't really see the shape of the spots . |
| 12 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 13 | Get to the back of the drawers and cupboards — areas which do n't often see the light of day . |
| 14 | We have n't even seen a photograph of the cottage . |
| 15 | Jezrael could n't even see the rest of her squad at work in the power-room , but they were . |
| 16 | It towered so far above me I could n't even see the top of it . |
| 17 | Hoover could n't even see the point of intelligence reports which showed Japan 's interest in how to attack a deep harbour , and how deep Pearl Harbour might be . |