Example sentences of "not see [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose we were old friends who were meeting again after not seeing each other for many years . |
| 2 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 3 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 4 | and , you 're losing money , , if you 're not , if you 're not seeing any return you 're |
| 5 | It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty . |
| 6 | She came to see him once , was shy and vague and noncommittal , later wrote to say it was best for them not to see each other again . |
| 7 | Indeed his fellows were not to see that cadet again . |
| 8 | But , more importantly , I have learnt not to see any stage of my life as the final one . |
| 9 | The last three elections were all foregone conclusions , and the last-minute swings against the party that was clearly going to win in two of them — against the Tories in 1979 and 1983 — probably only reflected some floating voters ' desire not to see any party have too large a majority . |
| 10 | Perhaps we tend not to see this year 's household survey as an historical datum because it is the human condition to flatter ourselves that our own lives are outside time , and therefore outside history . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems to me , ’ he continued , ‘ if you 've got a personal contact like this , knowing the family background and all that , you 'd be crazy not to see this girl . ’ |
| 12 | Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length . |
| 13 | Cara had not seen much sense to it . |
| 14 | But I have not seen much evidence that it is really possible to do it on this scale . |
| 15 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |
| 16 | At first it had not mattered that the rain prevented him from going outdoors ; there was so much to talk about between himself and Uncle Walter ; they had not seen each other for twelve years . |
| 17 | On every occasion there was a suicide attempt , we would find out that the other had attempted suicide at the identical time , even though they may have been hundreds of miles apart and not seen each other for months . |
| 18 | These involve her talking to a Jem , a childhood admirer , and on these occasions Boehemer captures the awkwardness of two people who have not seen each other for years meeting up . |
| 19 | The Chirwas had not seen each other for eight years before our delegation saw them together . |
| 20 | The straight answer to the hon. Gentleman is no , I have not seen that prospectus . |
| 21 | All these people there this weekend and I 've not seen one dog go out ! |
| 22 | I 've not seen proper sun for months … ’ |
| 23 | Robson , 35 , has not seen first-team action for five months due to hamstring and sciatica problems , but last Saturday he played 80 minutes of an A team game . |
| 24 | He points out that the pencils are notoriously difficult to get , and says the simple fact is that the judges have not seen sufficient innovation . |
| 25 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 26 | We had not seen another vehicle all day . |
| 27 | talk you know there was the Notts County Council on the erm gully problems that we get in , is it possible to write to the County Council to ask them what sort of maintenance programme they 're going to give us now , as regards this cos I 've not seen this wagon going round so frequently as it used to . |
| 28 | For anyone that has not seen this effect , the lace carriage is set to ‘ F ’ and instead of taking one stitch off and transferring it to the next needle , the carriage ‘ hops ’ the stitch across from the one it is on and hooks it on to the next one . |
| 29 | Some people are wary of keeping Plecs in an aquarium with Discus as there have been cases of Plecs grazing off the sides of the Discus and leaving sucker marks on them but I have not seen any evidence of this from the Spotted Orange Pleco . |
| 30 | Spittals was still one inspector down on his personnel establishment and had not seen any evidence of progress on the Mills murder . |