Example sentences of "not see " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |
| 3 | ‘ But one can not see greatly far down . |
| 4 | Last Sunday the belated Lord Woodleigh and Miss Jilly Jonathan could not see the famous Blue Grotto on this island because Lord Woodleigh insisted to go to Mass in a church here . |
| 5 | Ghatak did not see any contradiction between these two approaches . |
| 6 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 7 | If you can not see a suitable field , do n't be afraid to make a well banked circle to look right round the whole area . |
| 8 | Lucy would not see her . |
| 9 | He could not see himself chained to these realities for the next 40 or 50 years . |
| 10 | They could not see how one so patently spiritual in his emphases , so biblical in his references ( to both ‘ Old ’ and ‘ New ’ Testaments ) , could be so frank about his appreciation of female beauty and his corporeal appetites . |
| 11 | While I can not see the attraction , at least it keeps her busy in the evenings . |
| 12 | I could not see the heap ; it was hidden by brambles nowadays . |
| 13 | In the house example , we can choose the order in which we see the parts of the building but we surely can not see occluded portions , and we surely can not look up to see a thatched roof — because that 's the kind of roof we want to see — when the roof is tiled . |
| 14 | So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight ’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light ’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light . |
| 15 | What this means , of course , is that functionalists do not see consciousness as a defining feature of the mental . |
| 16 | I will not see him again until I am nine years old . |
| 17 | Somehow , I can not see either Monte Carlo or Hamburg allowing their status to be lowered without a fight . |
| 18 | Assuming licensees and magistrates act sensibly in seeking and granting approval , I can not see any strong objection to this . |
| 19 | Figure 9 represents the way in which the lines of force are concentrated from the immediate vicinity and makes plausible the idea that an overwound coil would not see much difference in the flux changes it experiences from either system . |
| 20 | Because of the practical difficulties in overcoming the first of these problems , I can not see , even if the price of the D-to-A converter were a few pence , Class D in its Reeves or Sandler guise making much progress . |
| 21 | I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects . |
| 22 | I can not see how the canon of poetry could avoid being constructed along historical lines , though the problem and implications of canon-formation should be faced , as part of theoretical study . |
| 23 | All I can say to the objectors in both categories is that those who do not see a problem do not have a problem , and they can happily ignore what I have written . |
| 24 | for he applauded Wyndham Lewis 's alter ego in Tarr , when the latter explained that it is a condition of art ‘ to have no inside , nothing you can not see . |
| 25 | We have made a bid of nearly £700m for a company with a book value of £200m — we 've acknowledged there is some extra worth there , but I can not see the sort of value they are talking about in property . |
| 26 | If the follow-on now loomed large , Azharuddin could not see it . |
| 27 | In information and marketing , trading has been adversely affected by the downturn in consumer spending , and the group does not see the position being reversed this year . |
| 28 | He added that he could not see ‘ what the Portuguese administration can further do to enlarge the Macanese people 's confidence ’ . |
| 29 | That much of the population could not see the superiority of their society did not deter them : a workers ' uprising was crushed , the Wall was built , travel was extremely limited , all criticism rigorously suppressed . |
| 30 | I can not see that one voting system is intrinsically more fair than another . |