Example sentences of "not see the [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not seeing the significance at the time of the two articles , or of the prong ( pitchfork ) and shovel that followed them , the two boys finished their frugal breakfast and set out upon their chores . |
| 2 | ‘ Not really ; it was a case of not seeing the wood for the trees . |
| 3 | To be permanently enmeshed in detail is not to see the wood for the trees . |
| 4 | erm I think it 's important not to see the city as a sort of down-trodden , poor , hard-working , well , I 'm sure they were hard-working , but very poor people . |
| 5 | He had not seen the correspondence about the lines through Denbigh , as his men no longer worked over , nor signed the road to Denbigh . |
| 6 | Although some US rugby enthusiasts were able to tap into these satellite transmissions to view the matches live , the majority have not seen the heroics of the best players in their sport . |
| 7 | I 've not seen the wife for a month . ’ |
| 8 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 9 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
| 10 | This week has not seen the end of the row about Europe in the Conservative party , but merely a regrouping of forces for the battle still to come . |
| 11 | No , Mr Patel was very sorry , no , he had not seen the face of the man who worked on the car . |
| 12 | ‘ But I can not see the benefit of a league which makes the already rich richer and the other ones poorer . ’ |
| 13 | President Lennart Johansson said last night they are prepared to discuss innovative plans from a group of Europe 's wealthiest clubs , but added : ‘ I can not see the benefit of a league which makes the already rich richer , and the other ones poorer . ’ |
| 14 | Forest loom in the FA Cup in the New Year , and if United , who had their lowest League crowd of the season on Saturday and are now only six points ahead of the bottom club City , still can not see the wood for the trees , somebody will be in for the chop . |
| 15 | But that is a pity , for then they do not see the wood for the trees . |
| 16 | Most clients were too close to their organisation — they could not see the wood for the trees — to solve many of their senior recruiting problems . |
| 17 | It was clear that both parties were set on a collision course , and I could not see the possibility of an out-and-out win for Mrs Castle . |
| 18 | I can not see the necessity of the shadow cast by a half-opened drawer in the kitchen table. , It is encouraging to find Fry underlining a point about critical writing — that with a description of a work of art it can be useful to be given an explicit account of how the critic responds . |
| 19 | From where I sat I could not see the clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 20 | The court also absolved General Jorge Rabanal , who led the operation , on the grounds that from his post he could not see the slaughter of the prisoners . |
| 21 | I could not see the state of the causeway . |
| 22 | JTR ‘ did not see the glen to the greatest advantage ; the weather was too fine . ’ |
| 23 | He did not see the failure as a consequence of the refusal to unite all opponents of Unionism , but of the NILP 's willingness to compromise in order to achieve such unity : |
| 24 | Our experiments with Zeta are only the first milestone along what may be a longish road , and we can not see the end of the road . |
| 25 | I am careful to have my desk angled towards the centre of the room so that I can not see the view from the window across the park towards the lake and the western curve of the South Downs . |
| 26 | If it can not see the source of the danger , it can not turn to face it and lash out in defence — there is nothing there at which to lash out . |
| 27 | How very odd that she could not see the source of the light , but could see the light itself . |
| 28 | Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees . |
| 29 | They witness to a certainty that all the diversity of living beings are a part of a transcendent unifying spiritual whole which is by definition difficult to grasp in its totality ; individual dancers can not see the pattern of the whole dance — that is perceived only from outside . |
| 30 | Simpson does not see the acquisition as an exercise in corporate break-up . |