Example sentences of "not see a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps it was also relief at not seeing a flood of overpriced Japanese owned art back on the market , or the sense that the cloud of economic recession might be lifting . |
2 | For instance , it is difficult not to see a connection between the prejudiced views of heads and teachers involved in ESN-M referral processes and the overrepresentation of Afro-Caribbean children in special schools ( Tomlinson , 1981 ) . |
3 | Mungo looked up and was relieved not to see a face at the window . |
4 | Sightless , she smiled thinly and inhumanly ; she who had not seen a smile with which to compare since her girlhood , nor a mirror either . |
5 | THERE are very few middle-aged men who have not seen a vision of youthful loveliness and longed to possess it . |
6 | Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . |
7 | I 've not seen a lot of it actually , so far . |
8 | Absence of such deposits in the late 1980s has not seen a decline in Eurocurrency . |
9 | Now how many people have not seen a list of the |
10 | Ten out of 23 ( 43 per cent ) children and adolescents had not seen a dentist since their last review . |
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 | You will not see a goal of more classical quality and execution than this one . |
13 | You might look around and not see a tree with any foliage on it whatever ’ . |
14 | A garrulous Welshman who could not see a beach without running along it . |
15 | The implications of this would seem to be that 1975–85 did not see a process of structural change , but simply the latest in a series of chaotic attempts by central actors to use local government as a means of achieving their ends , without any appreciation of the range of different interests reflected in its various policy networks , and which are also linked by various routes to the still disaggregated parts of the centre . |
16 | Although a large ship of the line , she did not see a lot of action during her service . |
17 | So Rediffusion engineers do not see a future for monomode fibre except for trunk lines . |
18 | When the Renault RSO1 1500 cc turbo-charged car failed on lap 17 of the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone , there must have been many people who did not see a future for this power-booster , particularly as it was the turbo-charger that caused the car 's withdrawal from the race . |
19 | Following the verdict Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane , Kahane 's son and a leader of his anti-Arab Kach party , vowed that Noseir would " not see a day without fear until his very last " . |
20 | Have n't seen a story from you for ages . |
21 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
22 | ‘ In Helsinki , Finland , they have n't seen a case for nearly two years . |
23 | Have n't seen a man for a week . ’ |
24 | Perhaps you have n't seen a strike for years . |
25 | I have n't seen a team in Europe that 's a great deal better than England . |
26 | She keeps two hunters here all the year round as well as the grey and I have n't seen a penny in livery in all of five years . |
27 | Have n't seen a woman in a hat for years . |
28 | So far we had n't seen a bear at all . |
29 | Erm I , I ca n't say that we sold a lot of them I , I , and I have n't seen a lot about at all , er it 's a very good idea I mean two , there 's mainly two different types , one that was held up by pins which was , was quite good er and erm and there was another one which was held up by erm a pin which ran , which the flex ran through , a stud rather than a , a pin and er two little black legs on it , was very good . |
30 | He has n't seen a lot of Deborah and Sarah |