Example sentences of "not [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 2 | But , although these concepts ( standardness , eliteness , carefulness ) are of different orders ( and we shall return to these distinctions ) , Dobson does not apparently see any reason to keep them separate . |
| 3 | Wickham did not entirely see but this was Shildon 's meeting and he was an intruder . |
| 4 | You will not necessarily see your physiotherapist doing exactly the treatment techniques described below : she may use some of these techniques plus others she has devised herself , or she may use a completely different method . |
| 5 | But Watson does not only see himself as publicity agent for his cause . |
| 6 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 7 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 8 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 9 | Would-be interpreters studying the music could not only see Elgar 's intentions in the printed score , but could follow the creative process a stage further — to the ultimate stage , in fact , and hear the creator realize his work in its natural medium , that of sound . |
| 10 | In the lighted deckhouse he could not only see old Willis , fiddling about with what looked like tins and glasses , but Janet , wearing her other trouser suit . |
| 11 | We can now not only see how justified this comment was but , in details inaccessible to Freud at the time he was writing , can determine with some exactness both the causes and the consequences of this fateful development in human evolution . |
| 12 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 13 | At Feros Lighting , Parsons Street , Banbury , you 'll not only see the largest selection of domestic lighting in the area , they can also advise you on the best way to light your office , so if it 's one lightbulb , your whole home or a complete office , for the complete look go to Feros Lighting in Parsons Street , Banbury . |
| 14 | But the Baptism of Jesus did not merely see the end of the long silence , and God 's declaration that in Jesus the role of the Servant and the Son had converged : the age-long drought of the Holy Spirit was ended too . |
| 15 | In the more general case , in which there is no direct estimate of the expected variable , one can not merely see the actual value of a variable as a measure of the rational expectation of that variable , despite the fact that the two should differ only by a random error . |
| 16 | We did not merely see three ships come sailing by : ordering in threes has shown significant benefits and economies . |
| 17 | They are not words for physical things , like objects or parts of the body , but for states or processes that we can not physically see or feel . |
| 18 | It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers . |
| 19 | A further example of the parallelism of greater precision may be found here , though commentators do not generally see the connection of thought between the two lines . |
| 20 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 21 | Does he not just see Lapps ? |
| 22 | But Coventry do not just see themselves as killjoys . |
| 23 | The body 's centre section is maple too , and you 'd not normally see that because traditionally it 's been painted over ; and the bridge is different , more solid-looking ; and the pickups … etc. , etc … |
| 24 | ‘ We do not usually see him but he is a kind man . |
| 25 | A director may have made it plain that he has a definite intention for a character , but the student may not always see this straight away . |
| 26 | The coherence , the progression , one can argue , lies in the eye of the curriculum planner rather than that of the individually different children who experience it haphazardly , often guided into a general context by the pastoral strength of their form tutor who may not always see the whole picture themselves . |
| 27 | There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters . |
| 28 | But men of the late Middle Ages did not always see things that way : for reasons of history , language , sentiment , as well as political expediency , their own independence and , consequently , the continued fragmentation of France , ought to be maintained . |
| 29 | Despite their greater poverty , lone mothers may not always see marriage or cohabitation as improving their access to resources . |
| 30 | Fernand was employed by the previous owner and does not always see eye to eye with Alain on the way the estate should be managed , but no … ’ |