Example sentences of "not see the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forest loom in the FA Cup in the New Year , and if United , who had their lowest League crowd of the season on Saturday and are now only six points ahead of the bottom club City , still can not see the wood for the trees , somebody will be in for the chop . |
| 2 | But that is a pity , for then they do not see the wood for the trees . |
| 3 | Most clients were too close to their organisation — they could not see the wood for the trees — to solve many of their senior recruiting problems . |
| 4 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 5 | Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees . |
| 6 | Most naturalists of my age just enjoyed wildlife of every kind and did not see the need for conservation until after the war when modern methods of farming made enormous changes in the countryside . |
| 7 | We do not see the need for the level to be higher in diabetics than in non-diabetics . |
| 8 | Other Churches do not see the need for such a sacramental structure and urge their people to ask God directly for the forgiveness of sins . |
| 9 | Having read the resolution of the 1990 Congress of the Communist Party , I am in broad agreement with the positions adopted , except for one : I do not see the need for an ‘ association ’ alongside the Party . |
| 10 | However , Gayoom said that he did not see the need for a formal defence treaty between the two countries although India would continue to train the Maldives ' security forces . |
| 11 | Er erm we think the nine thousand seven hundred dwellings based on one hundred percent migration for the Greater York area is the appropriate strategic approach erm for the Greater York area , the County Council does not see the need for any policy intervention in terms of migration , in respect of Greater York in the way it feels is necessary in respect of er of four other districts . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you are a trifle short-sighted and do not see the general for the particular . |
| 13 | Why could Rourke not see the truth for himself ? |
| 14 | While the BBC told us it would be ‘ done ’ in the best possible taste , there will still be many viewers who found the scenes last night disturbing those who can not see the forest for the trees . |