Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] see [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , you 've repaid him : you 've opened his eyes to things that 've been under his nose , and he could n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 4 | I got to the stage where I could n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 5 | Blunt could n't see the reason for that . |
| 6 | And perhaps we would n't see an orange for a fortnight , three weeks perhaps . |
| 7 | Those who ca n't see a role for the trade unions and the Labour Party need to be given time to see the error of their ways . |
| 8 | Next week we must have Brian or Gerry telling you why I 'm wrong and they 'd be as persuasive , or more persuasive than I 'm being , but I ca n't see the case for such a thing as a law of form . |
| 9 | Therapist : ‘ One of the main features of people under stress is that very often they ‘ ca n't see the wood for the trees ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ This government ca n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 11 | Either the A types are too busy doing other things , the wrong things , and they do n't rise to the top , you know , you ca n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I ca n't see the justification for leaving a man with a little baby out in the street . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't see the prick for the codpiece ’ . |
| 14 | Cadence Design Systems Inc warns that turnover for the first quarter will be down substantially from the same period last year and it will likely see a loss for the quarter . |
| 15 | We 'll get the real thing out of you soon enough and you wo n't see a farthing for it . ’ |
| 16 | But if we travel the northern route we probably wo n't see the sun for weeks , and the daylight is grey and the sea is green and grey , while at night you just see the cold white wavetops hissing out of blackness . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |