Example sentences of "not see [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'm not seeing a girl , " Patrick insisted with a grin , his sister was as eager to see him married off as his mother was against the idea . |
| 2 | Like most of the nomes who had been born in the Store he hated looking up and not seeing a ceiling . |
| 3 | Isabel walked over to the window and stared out , not seeing a thing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He made detailed admissions and at the end was asked whether not seeing a solicitor had made any difference , He said not , but would like to see a solicitor , and refused to sign the notes of interview until he had done so . |
| 6 | Dancing was a consolation for not seeing the lady . |
| 7 | ‘ The political situation in FIFA , at the moment , is such that we have to be very careful of not seeing the majority move towards that idea . ’ |
| 8 | Not seeing the significance at the time of the two articles , or of the prong ( pitchfork ) and shovel that followed them , the two boys finished their frugal breakfast and set out upon their chores . |
| 9 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , but — are they not seeing the jokes ? |
| 11 | In the Game of Life not seeing things as they are is like not seeing the ball clearly when playing tennis , or not knowing where the white lines are . |
| 12 | He was not seeing the ball so well . |
| 13 | Not seeing the size she was . |
| 14 | ‘ Not really ; it was a case of not seeing the wood for the trees . |
| 15 | THE Hitch-hiker 's Guide To Not Seeing The Galaxy Before Your Time : Do n't accept a lift in President Kennedy 's Cadillac , James Dean 's Porsche , Mark Thatcher 's Land-Rover . |
| 16 | ‘ People are just not seeing the value of breast milk , ’ says Alison Spiro , NCT milk-bank coordinator and Parents Family Health Adviser . |
| 17 | What makes a fanatic is not having strong and extreme ideals oneself but taking no notice of other people 's — not seeing the considerations that other people are concerned about . |
| 18 | She stresses that the reader should not focus on the behaviour of the mother in the novel to the exclusion of all else ; ‘ It 's very important not to see a novel as summing up the entire state of women — yes there are weak women but there are also very strong women . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Mungo looked up and was relieved not to see a face at the window . |
| 21 | To be permanently enmeshed in detail is not to see the wood for the trees . |
| 22 | At that moment he reappeared in the kitchen doorway and , seeming not to see the censure in her eyes , or not to care , observed with a dry smile , holding aloft his glass of water , ‘ Handy stuff for putting out fires . ’ |
| 23 | She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure . |
| 24 | She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation . |
| 25 | Users tend not to see the errors because they 're corrected by the network software , but the need for retries slows things down . |
| 26 | ‘ The kind who were disappointed not to see the panzers driving up to Buckingham Palace ? ’ |
| 27 | We all knew it would be disastrous ; we foretold that her husband would walk out , that her other children would suffer : we saw she was the only one of the family unit who could n't bear not to see the fruit of her womb , however sour , ripen , drop and live . |
| 28 | As a child he had lain in bed long into the night , plotting his escape from an alcoholic father and a mother who managed not to see the bruises and the tears . |
| 29 | The EPA exists to regulate things , not to see the market do the job for it . |
| 30 | After a full day of sightseeing , it made it a pleasant change not to see the ground . |