Example sentences of "[not/n't] see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also stressed the difference between adoption and fostering , not seen as simply one of length of placement : often the aim of fostering was restoration of the child to the natural family , or at least the maintenance of contact with it . |
| 2 | The task of price theory is not seen as primarily concerned with the configuration of prices and quantities that satisfies the conditions for equilibrium . [ … ] |
| 3 | Since the ability to draw is not seen as particularly important , this state of affairs has not come to the fore . |
| 4 | But in Morocco even that was not seen as totally out of the question . |
| 5 | As Alan Fox , a major proponent and later critic of pluralism , has put it , ‘ The pluralist does not claim anything approaching perfection for this system … [ but the imbalances of strength between employers and unions … are not seen as so numerous or severe as generally to discredit the system either from the union 's point of view or the management 's ’ ( 1977 , p.136 ) . |
| 6 | A simple reason why the younger activists are not seen as often on the picket line as their elders were , is that they are too busy pursuing the same goals by other means . |
| 7 | The launching of the United Nations Decade for Women began in Britain with the passing of Equal Pay and Anti-Sex Discrimination legislation , and so long as women 's demands were not seen as too extreme , and were easily satisfied by a few minor modifications in the administration of sexual injustice , then the liberal socialist establishment seemed happy to make the appropriate gestures . |
| 8 | In the twentieth century they were succeeded by men like A. S. Peake ( Primitive Methodist ) , C. H. Dodd ( Congregationalist ) , H. Wheeler Robinson ( Baptist ) and P. T. Forsyth ( Congregationalist ) whose work was similar to Barth 's and whose ‘ true spiritual stature was not seen or even glimpsed ’ until after the Second World War . |
| 9 | I really wanted to be close to the sea again , which I had not seen or even smelt for so long . |
| 10 | Bonn , The Hague and London would much prefer the Community to keep to this narrow route to EMU , although the British Government still does not see that even its competing currencies alternative leads to a European central bank . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you not see that over a million wearying years of galactic history , so-called peace has invariably had its prelude in attack , so that the seeds of further conflict were sown ? |
| 12 | Many of us find it difficult to have faith and trust and feel love for someone that we can not see and often feel that we can not hear or get close to . |
| 13 | I ca n't see that honestly I just , I just |
| 14 | ‘ No , I ca n't see that either , ’ agreed Lydia . |
| 15 | Oh , well he keeps calling it his laser printer ! seen it in action we do n't see that well . |
| 16 | I mean I did n't see that so |
| 17 | But the man at the front had n't been told this of course , naturally enough and he could n't see that so suddenly with a jolt the wardrobe left him , two steps ' worth instead of one at a time . |
| 18 | You could n't see that really they were arriving ever so slightly off-centre . |
| 19 | where they 're at one and two thousand people working for them , I ca n't see that ever coming back , you know like the ? |
| 20 | Now he 's overtaking because he ca n't see but nevertheless Look at the gap there . |
| 21 | who speaks to you , er it 's easy enough to just er have the microphone handy that they do n't see and just switch the tape on and I 'll record what they 're saying , come away , see , do it secretly like that , they do n't have to know really that they 're on tape and it does n't really matter , I mean the people who will listen to these tapes are er anonymous you know |