Example sentences of "not see [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the gap between ( non-financial ) companies ' reported profits and capital spending is rising : at ¥20.9 trillion , in calendar 1990 it reached 4.9% of GNP , a level not seen since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | It does n't though , and the photocopiers are good enough to pass official muster , how long can it be before we have the sort of crisis of confidence in our physical currency not seen since the days of the coin-clipping Tudors ? |
| 3 | But in September 1015 he appeared off Sandwich again , to initiate fourteen months of campaigning , largely against Æthelred 's son Edmund Ironside , and of an intensity not seen since the days of Alfred . |
| 4 | In Australia , he rewrote the history books in a display not seen since the days of Jim Clark and Graham Hill — they helped revolutionise Indycar racing with their rear-engined Lotus Fords — when he started from pole position , won the race and smashed the lap record in his debut race . |
| 5 | In the eyes of such politicians , industrial managers were not seen as the creators of the nation 's wealth , and the providers of job opportunities for the people , but as despoilers of the environment ; obsolete men , peddling obsolete views , who did n't really fit in with the new social scheme of things . |
| 6 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 7 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 8 | The parties at large are not seen as the formers of policy for the government ; that is a task reserved for the parliamentary members of the governing party . |
| 9 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 10 | Down at Lucifer 's feet , in front of the stage , a girl with long , black hair stood on tip-toe but still could not see over the heads of the crowd . |
| 11 | Reflections are something you can not see in the flames of central heating . |
| 12 | All out 446 meant that England had a lot of batting to do in the last two days , and when Larkins went at the end of the third day to a ball that he did not see in the shadows , one felt they just were not going to make it . |
| 13 | This does n't allow fine-detail viewing — the viewer ca n't see into the windows of homes — but individual streets , river traffic , troop or merchant wagon movements and suchlike are readily seen . |
| 14 | Now she ca n't see over the weeds . |