Example sentences of "[verb] not see the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 2 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 3 | He could see Prussian soldiers running away in the undergrowth and he felt the fierce exultation of a cavalryman given a helpless enemy to slaughter , but he did not see the batter of guns concealed in the deep shadows at the edge of the wood , nor the Prussian artillery officer who shouted , ‘ Fire ! ’ |
| 4 | He said that he did not see the point of a central control over pay beds which was a relic of the Labour governments of the 1960s . |
| 5 | He did not see the point of it . |
| 6 | Kellett-Bowman ) asked in her characteristically robust way why the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats do not see the urgency of this matter . |
| 7 | The nationalists do not see the emergence of nationalism in this way . |
| 8 | There was a phrase screeched into the microphone by a hoarse-voiced member of Socialist Workers ' Students ' Organization : ‘ The government must be deaf , dumb and blind if they do not see the madness of this war . ’ |
| 9 | It is essential that the members of a history department do not see the introduction of National Curriculum history as their entire curriculum . |
| 10 | Not only do we have the situation in the UK where partial-hearing units ( PHUs — integrated settings ) are using Total Communication ( e.g. Hegarty , Pocklington and Lucas , 1982 ) , but young deaf people do not see the use of BSL as a function of their contact or lack of contact with hearing people . |
| 11 | ‘ We all know about criminal cases and traffic offences , but there are many aspects of the work of the Magistrates Court which do not see the light of day as far as the general public are concerned , for example juvenile and matrimonial cases . |
| 12 | It might be that the individual does not see the value of climbing a mountain ; or perhaps does not have the confidence to set about the task . |