Example sentences of "not [adv] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed he should come across someone who should want his skills — he was an incurable optimist , and imagined a fortunate meeting around every corner , though how that should come about was hard to see , as he advanced farther and farther into the dark , dense trees , where even the moonlight was split into dull little needles of bluish light on the moss , not enough to see by . |
| 2 | Not enough to see by . |
| 3 | The moon was hardly more than a pale sliver , and surely not enough to see by . |
| 4 | ‘ There is still a place for old favourites such as viscaria , a plant I loved growing as a child although it is not much seen today . |
| 5 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 6 | We can now not only see how justified this comment was but , in details inaccessible to Freud at the time he was writing , can determine with some exactness both the causes and the consequences of this fateful development in human evolution . |
| 7 | And the detailed rules of company law must be tested not just to see how well they serve the interests of shareholders , but also how well they serve the interests of society in having an efficient and productive economy . |
| 8 | Such illustrations are valuable if one is discriminating specimens , in a museum or perhaps in the field ; but close species are not usually seen together , because they will fill slightly different ecological niches . |
| 9 | Several themes recur throughout the book , grit and courage , an inexplicable sense of insecurity , a solemnity which Gooch has cultivated almost consciously as an image , and a love of playing for his county which the author suggests is not often seen elsewhere in county cricket ( although one or two from Yorkshire might disagree ) . |
| 10 | He has not even seen yet all the Khedivial estates . |
| 11 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 12 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 13 | I 'm gon na give his lecture or his talk which probably means I shall get my my tongue in a twist an an an and not quite see where I 'm going . |
| 14 | Dorothea supposed that change must affect even such trivialities as the uniform of waitresses , although she did not quite see why , and it was a note of uncertainty in an otherwise happy day . |
| 15 | They do not expect him to lose but can not quite see how he is going to win . |
| 16 | There were steps from one terrace to another but Susan could not yet see where they would lead in the end . |
| 17 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 18 | And another thing , ’ she added angrily before he could reply , ‘ I ca n't personally see why Ana should interest the Press . |
| 19 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 20 | And if he did n't do that she could n't possibly see how they would ever see eye to eye . |
| 21 | I ca n't possibly see how once a week will be enough . |
| 22 | I could n't always see so far ahead by moonlight and needed to consult the compass more often . |
| 23 | I I do , I do n't really see why any one person should tell another what it can and can not do ! |
| 24 | And ask them to take that on board , because I do n't really see why we should be expected to take on both factors . |
| 25 | I could n't really see why he was n't given the chance this season ( apart from the last mins vs Swindon ) , |
| 26 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 27 | It does n't just happen in nature , and I do n't really see why women should be at a disadvantage , unless it follows in the tail of many of the other disadvantages , which are actually made by society and culture , not by biology . |
| 28 | And I do n't really see how Zacco or anything else is going to stop me . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 30 | I told Harry that I did n't really see how this could be resolved in your absence so we should just leave until you return from holiday . |