Example sentences of "not [verb] see a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . |
| 2 | In fact , his comments seemingly invite the charge , for he describes the lack of black guardsmen in terms of feelings rather than in terms of the discourse of external factuality : ‘ People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . ’ |
| 3 | It should be noted that he remarks that ‘ people ’ do not want to see a black face , not that he personally objects to such a sight . |
| 4 | We do not want to see a massive amount of custodial sentencing , although we are glad that provision is made for it ; what we do want is a reduction in the number of people who participate in such a horrendous cult and in the equally horrendous statistics relating to youngsters who take cars , go to court and then take more cars . |
| 5 | It anticipated that business failures of established companies will continue to rise into the first quarter of 192 and did not expect to see a significant fall in the level of failures for up to 18 months . |
| 6 | erm we 're not expecting to see a huge amount of discounting in the summer months , so erm because the capacity that was on the market this year is going to very much match the demand from customers |
| 7 | Even the advent of the university had not done much to increase his sales , she considered shrewdly , since she could not recall seeing a single bookshelf in any of the homes of university staff which she had visited . |