Example sentences of "[adv] see [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Llandudno flood victims will get a boost today when the Duke of Edinburgh flies in to see the disaster for himself . |
| 2 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 3 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 4 | The Dutch administration had long seen the need for consular representation in Jedda , the port of Mecca , where the security , health and transport of large numbers of Indonesian pilgrims could be supervised by the Batavian authorities . |
| 5 | ‘ Not really ; it was a case of not seeing the wood for the trees . |
| 6 | To be permanently enmeshed in detail is not to see the wood for the trees . |
| 7 | Just seeing an advertisement for cake or chocolates in a magazine or on television will be enough to push you into the kitchen and straight into the biscuit tin . |
| 8 | He said the worst figures were in ophthalmology where patients had to wait between 48 and 71 weeks just to see a consultant for a diagnosis . |
| 9 | She had not seen the building for three years and the projecting , metal construction offended her as impetigo would , sprouting from the face of a beautiful woman . |
| 10 | He hardly knew a thing about the world and had not seen the sun for twenty-five years . |
| 11 | I 've not seen the wife for a month . ’ |
| 12 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 13 | You may also have to state facts which are obvious to you , but not to cousins who have not seen the family for several years . |
| 14 | Anne , 33 , was first on the scene at Burnaby Dun , Yorks , after worried neighbours reported they had not seen the woman for some time . |
| 15 | So Rediffusion engineers do not see a future for monomode fibre except for trunk lines . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The company said that it did not see an improvement for the second half . |
| 18 | Can you not see the dangers for us ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But that is a pity , for then they do not see the wood for the trees . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , our approach of presenting the subject matter within three profile components has the disadvantages that knowledge about language can appear fragmented and that teachers and pupils might not see the possibilities for coherent and cumulative work . |
| 24 | Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We do not see the need for the level to be higher in diabetics than in non-diabetics . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |