Example sentences of "not see the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dancing was a consolation for not seeing the lady .
2 ‘ 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 . ’
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 ‘ Yes , but — are they not seeing the jokes ?
6 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 .
7 He was not seeing the ball so well .
8 Not seeing the size she was .
9 ‘ Not really ; it was a case of not seeing the wood for the trees .
10 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 .
11 ‘ People are just not seeing the value of breast milk , ’ says Alison Spiro , NCT milk-bank coordinator and Parents Family Health Adviser .
12 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 .
13 To be permanently enmeshed in detail is not to see the wood for the trees .
14 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 . ’
15 She would have had to be blind not to see the mixture of desire and destruction in the getsure .
16 She pretended not to see the look of dismay on Martin 's face and continued with her explanation .
17 Users tend not to see the errors because they 're corrected by the network software , but the need for retries slows things down .
18 ‘ The kind who were disappointed not to see the panzers driving up to Buckingham Palace ? ’
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The EPA exists to regulate things , not to see the market do the job for it .
22 After a full day of sightseeing , it made it a pleasant change not to see the ground .
23 Even the most committed opponents of capital punishment will find it hard not to see the Norwegians ' point of view .
24 ‘ You 're not to see the swan until the performance so that you will react to if spontaneously .
25 erm I think it 's important not to see the city as a sort of down-trodden , poor , hard-working , well , I 'm sure they were hard-working , but very poor people .
26 It is difficult not to see the seeds of authoritarianism in this thinking : Rougemont says , ‘ C'est pour obéir que nous sommes libres ’ : it is in order to be able to obey that we are free .
27 She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension .
28 And another witness , who had been in the car park , said in a statement to police that he had not seen the policeman check underneath his car before getting .
29 He said he had heard a commotion , but not seen the incident .
30 I had not in those days looked at the real aspects of the drink question — had not seen the responsibility that rests on each one to be guiltless in regard to that which is sapping our country of some of its brightest intellects , and killing numbers of her sons possessed of generous impulsive natures .
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