Example sentences of "see beyond [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glimpse of rough woodland carpeted with bluebells and wild garlic could be seen beyond a daisy-sprinkled lawn ; a wisp of smoke spiralled up from the trees ; voices carried on the still air . |
| 2 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 3 | She had not seen beyond the violence : she had not planned for any other outcome . |
| 4 | But in the last surge of light he 'd seen beyond the reflection of the glass vizor — at the horror within . |
| 5 | Thus her face had been seen beyond the borders of her home , classroom or relatives ' houses . |
| 6 | The girl pointed eastwards , where a brightly coloured pennant could just be seen beyond the abbey 's spire . |
| 7 | Those who observed the Scots without the disadvantages of succumbing to rheumatism or feeling the humiliation of having failed to conquer them — or having been brought up in luxury in France — could see beyond the poverty to these characteristics . |
| 8 | It was not always thus : in 1983 , when Christie 's sold the first batch of 25,000 pieces of Ming porcelain , found ( also by Hatcher ) in a junk on a reef on the South China Sea , prices were low , because neither auction house nor collectors could see beyond the porcelain 's dull glaze to its historic possibilities . |
| 9 | It perhaps reveals Gedge 's ever-growing confidence that he could see beyond the macho nonsense and enjoy himself . |
| 10 | The Ego is the limited , separated , illusory self which can not see beyond the end of its own nose . |
| 11 | She could see beyond the snapshots , and feel the gradual destruction of little Herman 's personality as his mother became ever more dominant , ever more demanding . |
| 12 | The feminine beauty so parsimoniously revealed is , almost always , taken calmly by the sardonic , fatalistic hunter but he does see beyond the woman : |
| 13 | Reaching the top , Ruth looked eastward ; she could see beyond the forest to purple hills and faint mountains . |
| 14 | The writer complained that the City of London ‘ is essentially blind ’ , contains few Christians and ‘ ca n't see beyond the end of its ( hooked ) nose ’ ( emphasis in original ) . |
| 15 | It 's as if he has been drawn outside himself by indignation ; transcended himself ; literally risen into the air above his own head , so that he can see beyond the confines of his own life . |
| 16 | When Harry asked if ‘ Mrs Molly Diamond ’ was at home , the youth slouched back along the passage , shouted ‘ Ma ’ once at the top of his voice , then carried on without change of pace towards a dismantled motorcycle Harry could see beyond the back door . |
| 17 | ‘ What do you see beyond the mask it presents to visitors ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If you can not see beyond the painted image , beyond the obvious , then perhaps you should go , perhaps you should have never even come . ’ |
| 19 | At last , someone in the game who can see beyond the hype and is wiiling to say so . |
| 20 | Her eyes swept over the audience as far as she could see beyond the footlights . |
| 21 | This may be entirely proper for the evolution of knowledge in a particular field ; or it may be simply that the researcher has developed a tunnel vision , and is unable to see beyond a very narrow focus . |
| 22 | When the issue is addressed it is skirted around , it seems to us , by the unwillingness of all three of the authors concerned — understandable perhaps because of their daily closeness to the victims of mental illness — to see beyond the pathology of the psychotic state itself ; their failure to appreciate our — or rather Sylvia Plath 's — point made earlier : that when insane the psychotic individual is too preoccupied struggling against overpersonalised or idiosyncratic thoughts to create effectively . |
| 23 | Thus an important role was envisaged for those with enough education to see beyond the ‘ yellow ’ culture . |
| 24 | As the opposite is also so , the priority is evident but does the vision exist among men who sometimes fail to see beyond the end of their noses ? |
| 25 | What is essential in considering all these matters is to see beyond the weeping , struggling figure to the austere searcher who had devoted his life to reaching precise definitions of Truth , Rectitude and Justice , and to living accordingly . |
| 26 | You have to see beyond the boundary otherwise it 's a meaningless obsession . ’ |
| 27 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 28 | What is most alarming about this is not its inappropriate survivalist tone , the crudity with which racial identity is conceived nor even the sad inability to see beyond the conservation of racial identities to possibility of their transcendence . |
| 29 | Johnson responded to this courteous , gentlemanly Highlander ; Boswell failed to see beyond the Gael , the Jacobite . |
| 30 | This ability to see beyond the short-term impact to the bigger picture and where the real risks are is vital not only in evaluating the cost of possible outcomes but in then categorising the risks . |