Example sentences of "[adv] see [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Rediffusion engineers do not see a future for monomode fibre except for trunk lines . |
| 2 | When the Renault RSO1 1500 cc turbo-charged car failed on lap 17 of the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone , there must have been many people who did not see a future for this power-booster , particularly as it was the turbo-charger that caused the car 's withdrawal from the race . |
| 3 | The company said that it did not see an improvement for the second half . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But that is a pity , for then they do not see the wood for the trees . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 8 | Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees . |
| 9 | Most naturalists of my age just enjoyed wildlife of every kind and did not see the need for conservation until after the war when modern methods of farming made enormous changes in the countryside . |
| 10 | We do not see the need for the level to be higher in diabetics than in non-diabetics . |
| 11 | Other Churches do not see the need for such a sacramental structure and urge their people to ask God directly for the forgiveness of sins . |
| 12 | Having read the resolution of the 1990 Congress of the Communist Party , I am in broad agreement with the positions adopted , except for one : I do not see the need for an ‘ association ’ alongside the Party . |
| 13 | However , Gayoom said that he did not see the need for a formal defence treaty between the two countries although India would continue to train the Maldives ' security forces . |
| 14 | Er erm we think the nine thousand seven hundred dwellings based on one hundred percent migration for the Greater York area is the appropriate strategic approach erm for the Greater York area , the County Council does not see the need for any policy intervention in terms of migration , in respect of Greater York in the way it feels is necessary in respect of er of four other districts . |
| 15 | ‘ Then you are a trifle short-sighted and do not see the general for the particular . |
| 16 | Why could Rourke not see the truth for himself ? |
| 17 | While the BBC told us it would be ‘ done ’ in the best possible taste , there will still be many viewers who found the scenes last night disturbing those who can not see the forest for the trees . |
| 18 | A little later , to the time of the ‘ Polygnotan ’ red-figure vases , belongs a very small piece , not a cup-interior but the slightly domed surface of a covered cup ( fig. 112 ; one can just see the orifice for drinking at the bottom ) . |
| 19 | We 'll get the real thing out of you soon enough and you wo n't see a farthing for it . ’ |
| 20 | Those who ca n't see a role for the trade unions and the Labour Party need to be given time to see the error of their ways . |
| 21 | They can talk to a player , warn him and if he persists caution him so I do n't see a need for this new law . ’ |
| 22 | But if we travel the northern route we probably wo n't see the sun for weeks , and the daylight is grey and the sea is green and grey , while at night you just see the cold white wavetops hissing out of blackness . |
| 23 | Next week we must have Brian or Gerry telling you why I 'm wrong and they 'd be as persuasive , or more persuasive than I 'm being , but I ca n't see the case for such a thing as a law of form . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , you 've repaid him : you 've opened his eyes to things that 've been under his nose , and he could n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 25 | Therapist : ‘ One of the main features of people under stress is that very often they ‘ ca n't see the wood for the trees ’ . |
| 26 | I got to the stage where I could n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 27 | ‘ This government ca n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 28 | Either the A types are too busy doing other things , the wrong things , and they do n't rise to the top , you know , you ca n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 29 | Micrografx Inc , one of the first and most prominent companies to endorse IBM Corp 's OS/2 2.0 operating system , is backing off developing OS/2 applications , US PC Week reports : ‘ There 's no demand for OS/2 applications , ’ said Paul Grayson , chief executive of the Richardson , Texas , company — ‘ We do n't see the rationale for making additional investments in OS/2 applications when there 's no apparent demand for the ones on the market . ’ |
| 30 | We come to the different conclusion , and we we think that a settlement between , from those sources , that a new settlement between fifteen hundred to two thousand could support a reasonable range of services , and we when we look at Barton Willmore 's evidence we do n't see the support for their conclusion , if one reads each individual service , one fi comes to the view that a new settlement between fifteen hundred two thousand would support a reasonable range of services . |