Example sentences of "[vb mod] not see [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards .
2 The Computer Users Group should not see the collation of hardware requests from end users as their primary function .
3 Sir Gregory knew that was out of the question , but it was also essential that she should not see the entrance to the tunnel .
4 Patients may not see the relevance of giving information about their social history when their problem is a physical one — and it may not be .
5 Some doctors may not see the relevance of recording details of clinical signs .
6 Campbell concluded that we may not see the effect of economic recovery for at least a year — perhaps not until 1993 .
7 Even for you the sun can cause premature ageing , although you might not see the damage until years later .
8 He said : ‘ We might not see the day of liberation but it will come . ’
9 But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him
10 Well the problem is , you see , the devil has blinded their eyes , he had blinded the eyes of men and women so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what has actual happened , Paul tells us , i i in , in Corinthians in the first er , in Two Corinthians in chapter four , and verse four , he says , the God of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of God .
11 Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict .
12 A garrulous Welshman who could not see a beach without running along it .
13 The court also absolved General Jorge Rabanal , who led the operation , on the grounds that from his post he could not see the slaughter of the prisoners .
14 Pupils could not see the relevance of what they were asked to do and so lost motivation .
15 They could not see the glow of triumph in his eyes .
16 Unhappily , she averted her head so that he could not see the glimmer of tears that smarted behind her eyelids .
17 From where I sat I could not see the clock on the mantelpiece .
18 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 .
19 It was clear that both parties were set on a collision course , and I could not see the possibility of an out-and-out win for Mrs Castle .
20 I could not see the state of the causeway .
21 She could not see the state of Eleanor 's neck because Eleanor wore the collar of her crisp white blouse up .
22 I could not see the cairn from here .
23 She told me later she could not see the point of such correspondence .
24 He decided to be nice about the whole business , though he still could not see the point of it , and offered to put the little biscuity things into bowls .
25 He was uncertain , and could not see the point of hazarding a guess before the forensic labs had reported on the pair of scissors .
26 That much of the population could not see the superiority of their society did not deter them : a workers ' uprising was crushed , the Wall was built , travel was extremely limited , all criticism rigorously suppressed .
27 How very odd that she could not see the source of the light , but could see the light itself .
28 Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees .
29 She had felt sad watching as Tallis had slipped behind her , a figure on the shore , watching with concern but without understanding , since she had failed to place her Moondream mask across her face , and thus could not see the woman in the land .
30 We have done our best to protect her ; we ensured she would not see the baby at birth , removing him from the Maternity Unit as soon as he was delivered .
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