Example sentences of "[adv] see the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Not really ; it was a case of not seeing the wood for the trees . |
| 4 | To be permanently enmeshed in detail is not to see the wood for the trees . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He hardly knew a thing about the world and had not seen the sun for twenty-five years . |
| 7 | I 've not seen the wife for a month . ’ |
| 8 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anne , 33 , was first on the scene at Burnaby Dun , Yorks , after worried neighbours reported they had not seen the woman for some time . |
| 11 | Can you not see the dangers for us ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But that is a pity , for then they do not see the wood for the trees . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We do not see the need for the level to be higher in diabetics than in non-diabetics . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Then you are a trifle short-sighted and do not see the general for the particular . |
| 25 | Why could Rourke not see the truth for himself ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | We thus see the reason for the choice of C ♭ for its normal key , since every note in the scale of C ♭ can be raised one or two semitones without changing its name . |
| 29 | That being so , I hardly see the need for police protection . |
| 30 | Despite this lack of harmony between the facts and the ideal , the courts have traditionally seen the procedures for such inquiries against an adjudicative backdrop . |