Example sentences of "not [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see objects , it is not enough to see surfaces , although that is an excellent start . |
| 2 | Surrealists not only saw art as being composed of signifying elements drawn from the real , but also understood reality to be composed of signifying elements . |
| 3 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 4 | Would-be interpreters studying the music could not only see Elgar 's intentions in the printed score , but could follow the creative process a stage further — to the ultimate stage , in fact , and hear the creator realize his work in its natural medium , that of sound . |
| 5 | Does he not just see Lapps ? |
| 6 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
| 7 | ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends . |
| 8 | But men of the late Middle Ages did not always see things that way : for reasons of history , language , sentiment , as well as political expediency , their own independence and , consequently , the continued fragmentation of France , ought to be maintained . |
| 9 | Despite their greater poverty , lone mothers may not always see marriage or cohabitation as improving their access to resources . |
| 10 | Fernand was employed by the previous owner and does not always see eye to eye with Alain on the way the estate should be managed , but no … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye . |
| 12 | There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters . |
| 13 | Where there had been three men there were now a dozen , although he could not now see Diniz Vasquez . |
| 14 | ‘ They have not really seen training as an effective means of improving the country and there has been a steady decline in Britain 's industry as a result . ’ |
| 15 | Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor . |
| 16 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 17 | ‘ I do not really see Ezra Pound in Rapallo , ’ Max Beerbohm told me . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’ |
| 19 | He had repeated , over and over again , what Gigia had said , of her humiliation before Ellen Wilson , of how she had not even seen Oreste . |
| 20 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 21 | The three rabbits were returning down the bank of the stream and had not yet seen Hazel and the others . |
| 22 | Sadly , the Russian nuclear industry does not yet see things that way . |
| 23 | Derek did not again see Alexander Atkins or his swarthy companion . |
| 24 | He does not however see Bull following ICL Plc and becoming an 80%-owned subsidiary of a Japanese company , but he would n't say how much of the equity he would allow to pass into foreign hands . |
| 25 | He does not however see Bull following ICL Plc and becoming an 80%-owned subsidiary of a Japanese company , but he would n't say how much of the equity he would allow to pass into foreign hands . |
| 26 | Did we not recently see riots on the streets of Moscow , with two factions fighting it out ? |
| 27 | It appeared that Mrs de Crespigny had not actually seen Barton 's snake-like right hand thrust itself up Amaranth 's navy blue skirt . |
| 28 | I do n't somehow see Wendy as having me that way . |
| 29 | ‘ This one wanted to do my work , but when he started telling me that personally he was against all pet shops and would like to see them closed we did n't exactly see eye to eye . |
| 30 | You do n't usually see daisies do you ? |