Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He not only saw off no-confidence motions , but won the Congress round to supporting direct elections for an executive presidency . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 6 | Seventeenth-century Russia , poor , remote , deeply xenophobic , was not generally seen as part of the European political system at all . |
| 7 | The oldest part of the farm lies at the rear of the farmhouse and is not easily seen from the road . |
| 8 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 9 | Now , the economic costs attributable to the adversary system are not just seen as a function of the frequent reversals of ideologically motivated policies . |
| 10 | Why is the feral mink regarded as a pest , when in its native America it is not normally seen as a significant problem ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The event will feature beers from many small East Anglian breweries plus rare beers not normally seen in the area , real ciders , hot and cold food , souvenir glass plus entertainment most evenings . |
| 13 | The graphics are well drawn , and all the major pieces of Allied and German hardware are represented , with many of the pieces not normally seen in computer wargames like the British Sexton Self propelled gun , and the massive JagdTiger Tank destroyer . |
| 14 | Ulcers are not usually seen in one particular specialist department in most hospitals . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But it is not always seen in this way . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The need for a student-centred approach , perhaps not always present in some sectors of FE , is likely to become increasingly vital to tailoring programmes to meet the individual needs of those learners not traditionally seen as ‘ student material ’ . |
| 19 | He has an appetite for land and castles I would not willingly see in the King himself , but he 's a more dangerous man than the King . ’ |
| 20 | Secrecy can be damaging in that : ( a ) the sources of power and influence are obscured ; ( b ) public servants are not properly accountable ; ( c ) public participation is seriously hampered ; ( d ) justice is not often seen to be done ; ( e ) inefficiency and error are made more likely . |
| 21 | Luckier fates awaited the Louis XIV Boulle marquetry console , sold to a telephone bidder under-estimate for $675,000 ( £375,000 ) ( est. $800–1.2 million ) , a small Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle bureau plat around 1700–1710 , sold to Bernard Steinitz for $850,000 ( £472,200 ) ( est. $1–1.5 million ) , a simple Louis XV tulipwood marquetry table à écrire by Bernard van Risamburgh , sold to Partridge for $460,000 ( £255,500 ) ( est. $400–600,000 ) and the skeleton of a charming Louis XVI giltwood lit à la polonaise around 1780 ( est. $100–150,000 ) , a form not often seen at auction , which went to a phone bidder for $440,000 ( £244,400 ) . |
| 22 | They are not often seen on the open sea except on passage . |
| 23 | Buoyant , tern-like flight not often seen on surface of water . |
| 24 | A final chance to pick up the kind of luxuries not often seen on sale nowadays . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Above : The Silver Scat , Selenotoca multifasciata is not often seen in shops . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Royal Bank 's own coat-of-arms , granted in 1960 , is not often seen in the Age of the Logo , but does appear on our banknotes and , more recently , made a welcome appearance on the Highline card . |
| 30 | He showed some incredible coloured slides giving close-up detail of petal formation and patterns not often seen by the naked eye . |